People pay for Windows because it comes preinstalled on most new PCs, and there's no way to buy them without Windows. Imagine if the porn industry got a sweet deal like that...
Call me when a bill to this effect has some chance of passing, otherwise I am not interested. There is no idea so dumb or ill-informed that there isn't going to be some politician, somewhere, proposing it. That doesn't mean anyone else in that legislature takes it seriously, possibly even the proposer isn't serious and is just mouthing off for political reasons.
True.
This just isn't worth anyone's time to read about.
False. When politicians say stupid shit, it's our duty to mock them for it. Otherwise, that stupid shit starts making it into actual laws. (Sometimes it does that anyway.)
More importantly, the government has to answer to the people who hold the money. Fiat currency (or, as normal people call it, "money") has two things going for it: 1. The issuing government has tight control over it; 2. The government has strong incentives to keep the currency stable. Yeah, it's a sketchy system, but it has a much better track record than Bitcoin.
Are you referring to that bullshit story that was posted here a few days ago, that made it sound like the EPA police would be going into people's homes and ripping out their stoves?
Solar can use space that's not being used for anything else, like rooftops.
this only works in places with a lot of room and a lot of sun
My friends have an off-grid house. Solar panels that feed a battery bank, plus a gasoline-powered generator as a backup. They very rarely run the generator, mostly in the winter. This is in central NY, which definitely doesn't get a lot of sun. Their heat comes from a wood stove. So they meet most of their energy needs with non-fossil sources. It's really not as hard as you think.
I have no problem with cops being tracked while on the job. I actually think it's an excellent idea. What I am worried about is the slippery slope. We've seen it with drug testing: at first, it was only the people who REALLY needed to have their shit together, like air traffic controllers. Then it was train conductors. And school bus drivers. And truck drivers. Now, it's just indiscriminate: janitors, secretaries, nurses, accountants... (although strangely enough, the managers who oversee these workers usually don't have to piss in a cup.)
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People pay for Windows because it comes preinstalled on most new PCs, and there's no way to buy them without Windows. Imagine if the porn industry got a sweet deal like that...
It's more a question of who will be watching you.
Let me put it this way: if the Chinese government knows about the meth lab in my attic, what the fuck do I care? I'm not in China.
Call me when a bill to this effect has some chance of passing, otherwise I am not interested. There is no idea so dumb or ill-informed that there isn't going to be some politician, somewhere, proposing it. That doesn't mean anyone else in that legislature takes it seriously, possibly even the proposer isn't serious and is just mouthing off for political reasons.
True.
This just isn't worth anyone's time to read about.
False. When politicians say stupid shit, it's our duty to mock them for it. Otherwise, that stupid shit starts making it into actual laws. (Sometimes it does that anyway.)
European wind uses the metric system. COMPLETELY incompatible.
More importantly, the government has to answer to the people who hold the money. Fiat currency (or, as normal people call it, "money") has two things going for it: 1. The issuing government has tight control over it; 2. The government has strong incentives to keep the currency stable. Yeah, it's a sketchy system, but it has a much better track record than Bitcoin.
If it's invisible, how can you tell that it's pink?
It's only invisible when nobody's looking. Just like the Invisible Hand.
You'd probably get lots of technical people voted out and even more bimbos voted in.
You say that like it's a bad thing.
Some people are just gullible.
Come on, you really think Bernie Sanders doesn't know that they're liars? Maybe he just wants to get them on the record as telling (yet another) lie.
how about Shakers
http://www.gnu.org/software/hurd/hurd.html
But who guards the Coastguard?
The Reserve Coast Guard.
Either that, or they guard the reserve coast. I can't remember.
keep on with the class-wars, everyone
Son, the class war's been going on for a long time. Guess which side's winning?
Get an external mic and plug it in when you need it. And you'll probably get better sound than the built-in.
Imagine Star Wars, Ghost in the Shell, or Iron Man being forgotten and all copies of them being tossed down the memory hole 100 years from now.
It's already pretty hard to find a legal copy of the original version of Star Wars.
They sure do. Like preventing the Mooninites from bombing the subway.
The bridge between Germany and Finland?
Mordor has a much better public transit system.
Tempered, not timbered. I don't know what a "timbered scale" is, it sounds like an obscure 18th century sailing term.
Nick Cave. Does he still count as "underground"?
You can ask the same thing about voting machines. It's like some people are in a race to find more and more ways to fuck up a perfectly simple task.
How do you streal something that disappears after a magnet is passed over it?
Are we talking about Bitcoins, or music?
Serves him right for running a proprietary OS.
Are you referring to that bullshit story that was posted here a few days ago, that made it sound like the EPA police would be going into people's homes and ripping out their stoves?
Solar uses huge amounts of land-per-MWh
Solar can use space that's not being used for anything else, like rooftops.
this only works in places with a lot of room and a lot of sun
My friends have an off-grid house. Solar panels that feed a battery bank, plus a gasoline-powered generator as a backup. They very rarely run the generator, mostly in the winter. This is in central NY, which definitely doesn't get a lot of sun. Their heat comes from a wood stove. So they meet most of their energy needs with non-fossil sources. It's really not as hard as you think.
I have no problem with cops being tracked while on the job. I actually think it's an excellent idea. What I am worried about is the slippery slope. We've seen it with drug testing: at first, it was only the people who REALLY needed to have their shit together, like air traffic controllers. Then it was train conductors. And school bus drivers. And truck drivers. Now, it's just indiscriminate: janitors, secretaries, nurses, accountants... (although strangely enough, the managers who oversee these workers usually don't have to piss in a cup.)
Once again, in Esperanto: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PFvoAA2Xgig