I agree with what you said, but you're missing the point of my pithy quip, which is that while you and your gun cannot fend off tyranny, you and a lot of other people with their guns, together, certainly can.
True, but you also have absolutely no assurances that "John on IM" is really the John his PGP key says he is, unless he's got some trusties who have signed his key, and how do you know to trust them? And same goes for him. You could always set up a face-to-face meeting to examine each other's credentials, but why not just spend the five minutes to get a free personal email certificate from Thawte?
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First of all, you can get free personal S/MIME email certificates from Thawte, which is a trusted CA. Second of all, you don't have to use a commercial trusted CA. You can also be your own CA and issue yourself all the certificates you want. The only catch is that outside the domain of your CA, your CA will not be a trusted CA, so you either have to establish trust in advance with other users, or live with having an untrusted certificate.
I agree. S/MIME, because of the relatively full-featured certificate services bundled with Windows Server 2003, and the ability to manage certificates with Active Directory, appears to have much more institutional momentum than PGP, and that will, I think, ultimately make the difference.
Billions in package labeling and everything else just so that Americans can stay wrapped up in their little non metric world bubble.
What? I honestly do not understand how it could cost "billions" to add about 4 text characters to the weight/volume description of a label. Now, if you're concerned about packaging costs, why not go after Quebec, which demands that companies selling in Canada put that there Frenchie-talk on everything.
Nor does using a common multiplier make speed limits or distances any more "rational." The cities don't actually move further and closer together to accomodate the measuring system, you know? It's easier to convert units, great for all those times when you positively have to know your traveling distance in tiny units. Base 10 is a crappy numeral system anyways.
True, but those railroads are virtually useless for high-speed passenger service. First, the rail and rail bed is not of a high enough quality. Second, the rights of way are not graded, curved, or crossed in a way compatible with high-speed service. Third, and most importantly, those rail lines are largely already being quite productively used for long-hauling bulk freight, which cannot co-exist with high-speed passenger rail.
Having experienced both, I can say confidently a foot-traffic-based lifestyle is infinitely superior.
Yes, it's simply impossible that different people can have different preferences. There is only One True Way - congratulations on discovering it once and for all.
I think, unlike Amtrak, it would provide a comfortable, environmentally superior and relatively fast alternative to the short-range air travel we're increasingly putting up with.
It wouldn't be cheaper, though. The scale of capital investment for the kind of system you are talking about is truly staggering. It would have to provide a ROI at least equal to that of the interstate highway system, which is not likely because the interstates would still retain a lot of benefits to commuters, travelers, and deliverers.
In rural areas, there may sometimes be less than one over/underpass bridge per mile of interstate highway, but in suburban/urban areas, there is most definitely more. An expressway through a major metropolitan area could easily have ten per mile.
I know of the perfect place! A huge, secure facility bored into a mountain that is designed to hold its contents unperturbed for extremely long periods of time. It's under a mountain, like you say...Yucca Mountain, I think it's called...
Another correction: standard grammar dictates that the period goes inside the quotation, e.g.:
The word is you're. As in, "You're an asshole if you spell it as 'your.'"
Also, since you are referring to the word "you're" in the first sentence and not using it for its standard denotation, you really ought to enclose it in quotes.
It's moderated "Funny" because I am taking an explanation commonly offered by global warming proponents as to why some areas do not show warming trends and using it to explain why it gets colder in the Southern Hemisphere's winter season.
You missed a key element, though, which is that it only makes sense to do something if: (a) your actions are likely to have a positive (rather than no or negative) effect on the problem and (b) the benefits outweigh the costs. Now, I'm not convinced that global warming is substantially more likely to have negative effects than positive ones, and I'm even less convinced that, if it were demonstrably more likely to have negative effects, we would feasibly be able to do anything about it in the foreseeable future.
It's based on observations, e.g. (these are by the time of TNG):
- Starfleet commanders repeatedly order civilians around - The only civilian space transport ever shown is on federation vehicles, at the discretion of the federation - No federation civilian-owned space (or even stratospheric) vehicles are portrayed - No private corporations are ever shown - Contrary to your assertion, I don't believe any election is ever portrayed. - No civilian media organizations are ever shown - No legal civilian energy weapons are ever shown (in fact, civilians appear not even to be allowed to have blades!) - yet starfleet personnel are rarely without a powerful sidearm - There appears to be no such thing as privacy, except for high-ranking Starfleet officers. The federation appears to have massive databases containing all known information on everyone, used liberally by Starfleet. - Actual buying and selling appear to be officially prohibited (Picard didn't even understand the concept of "investment"!), reducing trade to barter and trading bars of latinum on the black market - In at least one case, a civilian is tried by a court with a Starfleet judge! - The most prestigious jobs in the federation appear to be starfleet offices - The military (Starfleet) appears to have complete control over federation foreign policy. - Most of all, the entire human race seems choked by a conspicuous conformity. You never see federation slackers, punks, vagabonds, hedonists, burnouts, addicts, malcontents, or revolutionaries. It simply isn't plausible that humans have been conditioned without exception to work hard for no appreciable incentive. Given real choices, there will always be people who choose not to conform, but never a one is shown in Star Trek - unless they are from a non-federation or extremely remote colony where the power of the Federation is non-existent. The conclusion is inescapable - the explanation is that people conform because they in fact have no choice. The only logical way such consistency and pattern of conformity could possibly be achieved is through sheer triumph of the will.
Slashdot Mirror
NEWSIE:
Tonight, on Eyewitness News: a man who's been in a coma for 19 years wakes up.
MAN:
Do Sonny and Cher still have that stupid show?
NEWSIE:
No, uh, she won an Oscar, and he's a Congressman.
MAN:
Good night! [Turns over and dies.]
I agree with what you said, but you're missing the point of my pithy quip, which is that while you and your gun cannot fend off tyranny, you and a lot of other people with their guns, together, certainly can.
A gun is useless. Many guns are the last defense against tyranny.
Is that really allowed under most TOS? I was under the impression that most home service prohibited you from using it for public access.
True, but you also have absolutely no assurances that "John on IM" is really the John his PGP key says he is, unless he's got some trusties who have signed his key, and how do you know to trust them? And same goes for him. You could always set up a face-to-face meeting to examine each other's credentials, but why not just spend the five minutes to get a free personal email certificate from Thawte?
First of all, you can get free personal S/MIME email certificates from Thawte, which is a trusted CA. Second of all, you don't have to use a commercial trusted CA. You can also be your own CA and issue yourself all the certificates you want. The only catch is that outside the domain of your CA, your CA will not be a trusted CA, so you either have to establish trust in advance with other users, or live with having an untrusted certificate.
I agree. S/MIME, because of the relatively full-featured certificate services bundled with Windows Server 2003, and the ability to manage certificates with Active Directory, appears to have much more institutional momentum than PGP, and that will, I think, ultimately make the difference.
Billions in package labeling and everything else just so that Americans can stay wrapped up in their little non metric world bubble.
What? I honestly do not understand how it could cost "billions" to add about 4 text characters to the weight/volume description of a label. Now, if you're concerned about packaging costs, why not go after Quebec, which demands that companies selling in Canada put that there Frenchie-talk on everything.
Nor does using a common multiplier make speed limits or distances any more "rational." The cities don't actually move further and closer together to accomodate the measuring system, you know? It's easier to convert units, great for all those times when you positively have to know your traveling distance in tiny units. Base 10 is a crappy numeral system anyways.
The railroads we've already had for 100+ years.
True, but those railroads are virtually useless for high-speed passenger service. First, the rail and rail bed is not of a high enough quality. Second, the rights of way are not graded, curved, or crossed in a way compatible with high-speed service. Third, and most importantly, those rail lines are largely already being quite productively used for long-hauling bulk freight, which cannot co-exist with high-speed passenger rail.
Too bad he didn't notice their train system while he was over there too.
I'm sure he noticed it - it's just that he was bombing the crap out of it, so it probably didn't work all that great.
Yes, it's simply impossible that different people can have different preferences. There is only One True Way - congratulations on discovering it once and for all.
It wouldn't be cheaper, though. The scale of capital investment for the kind of system you are talking about is truly staggering. It would have to provide a ROI at least equal to that of the interstate highway system, which is not likely because the interstates would still retain a lot of benefits to commuters, travelers, and deliverers.
In rural areas, there may sometimes be less than one over/underpass bridge per mile of interstate highway, but in suburban/urban areas, there is most definitely more. An expressway through a major metropolitan area could easily have ten per mile.
I know of the perfect place! A huge, secure facility bored into a mountain that is designed to hold its contents unperturbed for extremely long periods of time. It's under a mountain, like you say...Yucca Mountain, I think it's called...
Why do I get the feeling that Vista is nothing more than Windows Millinium Edition all over again?
Because you get your news and opinion from Slashdot.
Avalon and Indigo are still "in," FYI, though not by those names.
That's true for light, not for pigments.
Another correction: standard grammar dictates that the period goes inside the quotation, e.g.:
The word is you're. As in, "You're an asshole if you spell it as 'your.'"
Also, since you are referring to the word "you're" in the first sentence and not using it for its standard denotation, you really ought to enclose it in quotes.
It's moderated "Funny" because I am taking an explanation commonly offered by global warming proponents as to why some areas do not show warming trends and using it to explain why it gets colder in the Southern Hemisphere's winter season.
Do you know anybody running unsigned code on the 360? Unhackable...so far...
You missed a key element, though, which is that it only makes sense to do something if: (a) your actions are likely to have a positive (rather than no or negative) effect on the problem and (b) the benefits outweigh the costs. Now, I'm not convinced that global warming is substantially more likely to have negative effects than positive ones, and I'm even less convinced that, if it were demonstrably more likely to have negative effects, we would feasibly be able to do anything about it in the foreseeable future.
Global warming causes all kinds of effects that may result in other places becoming cooler.
WiX.
It's based on observations, e.g. (these are by the time of TNG):
- Starfleet commanders repeatedly order civilians around
- The only civilian space transport ever shown is on federation vehicles, at the discretion of the federation
- No federation civilian-owned space (or even stratospheric) vehicles are portrayed
- No private corporations are ever shown
- Contrary to your assertion, I don't believe any election is ever portrayed.
- No civilian media organizations are ever shown
- No legal civilian energy weapons are ever shown (in fact, civilians appear not even to be allowed to have blades!) - yet starfleet personnel are rarely without a powerful sidearm
- There appears to be no such thing as privacy, except for high-ranking Starfleet officers. The federation appears to have massive databases containing all known information on everyone, used liberally by Starfleet.
- Actual buying and selling appear to be officially prohibited (Picard didn't even understand the concept of "investment"!), reducing trade to barter and trading bars of latinum on the black market
- In at least one case, a civilian is tried by a court with a Starfleet judge!
- The most prestigious jobs in the federation appear to be starfleet offices
- The military (Starfleet) appears to have complete control over federation foreign policy.
- Most of all, the entire human race seems choked by a conspicuous conformity. You never see federation slackers, punks, vagabonds, hedonists, burnouts, addicts, malcontents, or revolutionaries. It simply isn't plausible that humans have been conditioned without exception to work hard for no appreciable incentive. Given real choices, there will always be people who choose not to conform, but never a one is shown in Star Trek - unless they are from a non-federation or extremely remote colony where the power of the Federation is non-existent. The conclusion is inescapable - the explanation is that people conform because they in fact have no choice. The only logical way such consistency and pattern of conformity could possibly be achieved is through sheer triumph of the will.
The Federation is a military dictatorship. Deal with it.