not if the sensors are basically drop-in components. Then you'd just do the cheapest thing you can think of that lets you concentrate on the thing-you're-really-concerned-about.
My original point was that an unjust law sparsly enforced, although unjust, has almost no chance of repeal. On a personal level, if you are able to engage in your habit, and relieve your suffering, you will have much less motivation to get the law repealed. Since not smoking marijuana hurts no one, there is no reason to disobey the law in the meantime. I am not arguing about the various merits/problems with marijuana. (although it is likely to be just as bad for your health as cigarette smoking, since either way you're inhaling a tremendous amount of burning-leaf combustion products)
We have the same problem with immigration. It is apparant by the arguments of those who want amnesty for illegal immigrants that there is a labor scarcity in the roles they tend to fill. But the solution isn't to turn a blind eye to illegal immigration. The answer is to increase quotas and make legal immigration easier, or repeal the immigration laws entirely.
Do you really think that putting yourself at risk of incarceration is a swifter path to your goal than presenting cogent and compelling arguments before the appropriate legislative body, organizing petitions and rallies, running for office with that as a key point in your platform so as to have a mandate, filing lawsuits on constitutional grounds or pooling resources for same?
You are mistaken. Your duty is not to defy the laws, but to oppose them. If you cannot tell the difference, then clearly "a little ganja" is more destructive than you have been lead to believe. Hint: you can oppose a law without ever violating it. The only time you are required to defy the law is if the law requires you do do something unjust. You can satisfy your duty by not doing that thing.
Standing up for civil rights for african americans during the 50s is an entirely different proposition than standing up for the right to a little hedonistic pleasure, and you insult the participants of the former by equating the two.
There is zero benefit to society or the individual from recreational use of cannabis, so there is no justification to be noncompliant while waiting for your efforts to repeal anti-marajuana laws to come to fruition.
But why is it that the unions are the ones complaining about the lack of unionism, low pay, healthcare issues and not the employees themselves?
Why do professional sports leagues need tax breaks to build stadiums?
answer: they don't. communities are stupid enough to offer them for the prestige, or because the leaders want to appear to be pro-active at generating jobs, and bringing in a big anything brings in a measureable feather for their caps. Companies however are not so foolish as to ignore this trend, and are certainly willing to play communities against each other for the greatest benefit.
You can hardly blame the companies for the sins of the city planners. If you let the fox into the chicken coop, do you blame the fox for what happens next?
Seriously. Why don't they have a version that's just the stunts and none of the "gross-outs" I can't be the only person that doesn't want to see how many live, buttered worms people can eat with chopsticks.
Wait.. calc?? save yourself some money and buy a dedicated, portable device that provides all the functionality and more for no more than the cost of a couple submarine sandwiches. If your math needs are served by calc, you don't need a computer. you need a pencil.
Do you believe that we must continue to pay for bad art with public funds so that those people won't accidentally get hired into marketing positions where they have the potential to make decisions that actually affect more than their cult following of outcasts and misfits?
You're right. people are concerned with their freedom to break the law when the law is unjust & poorly enforced. If the law is enforced absolutely and unwaveringly, people would have to actually do something about the unjust law rather than simply pretend it doesn't exist.
If you really believe that speed limits are unjust (or at least the current ones.) you should do everything you can to get them enforced 100% across the board without mercy. Hopefully, we can put an end to all the "If it saves even one life, it's worth it," people. I mean, seriously... the only way to have zero fatalities on the road is to lower the speed limits to 3 m/s (brisk walk) and outlaw any type of mechanical conveyance. Everyone's willing to risk SOME loss of life for the sheer convenience of rapid travel. The only question is, what level of risk is acceptable at a societal level for the benefits of a nationwide transportation system?
Yay. yet another biometric id that fails to address the most important feature of passwords. namely that they can be changed when compromised.
ok, it appears that if, in the next 40 years, this becomes possible, there should be a way to change the brain pattern if one becomes compromised, but the whole thing seems needlessly complicated.
Enterprise was never intended to be a prequel per se. This was evident from the very first episode when they introduced the "Temporal Cold War." However you feel about that particular device, it enables the writers to deviate pretty much as much as they want to because by the end of it, "well that happened in another timeline." It bothered me that "fans" would complain about things that were obviously the result of the temporal machinations as being non-canon. Of COURSE they were non-canon, they were the result of time-traveling maurauders. The question should've been whether or not they were compelling stories, which the viewers aparantly decided they were not.
With iTunes (and I presume the other services) you can preview each song and buy only the ones you intended to. If the whole album is great songs, you don't get much benefit though. Preview definately helped with avoiding remixes (or non remixes if you're looking for the remix) and songs that simply aren't as interesting as you think they might be. I know you can preview at the record store, but it's usually a very limited selection.
Ahh and that brings up the selection issue. itunes vs. record store is a lot like netflix vs. movie store in terms of total volume of titles. Not to mention the instant gratification. Certainly there are drawbacks, but everything has drawbacks & benefits and the point of trade is to decide which is more important to you.
Actually, quite a few ISPs do just that. Oh they won't protect you from a piece of spyware reporting info about you to some third party, but they will cut down the damage you can do if your computer gets zombified by disconnecting you from the internet and sending a nasty letter.
Not only is the test impossible to pass, you can't even cheat.
The pictures are high enough resolution for you to see the sites, and visit them, so I used the age old method of: visit with firefox, see if the noscript plugin gets mad at me. Most of the used javascript, so that wasn't any help and I assumed they were all risky and picked at random.
one interesting set was the very first one: cool-screensavers.com vs. ratloaf.com. cool used javascript, ratloaf did not, yet ratloaf was aparantly the offender.
so.. aparantly people are downloading spyware voluntarily? It would seem to me that if that is the case, the site itself isn't what's dangerous, but it's content.
Interestingly, the quiz required javascript.
why does everything freakin' thing require javascript to display two words or use webforms?
I used to have that swiss army knife that did everything.. You know the one that had ALL the tools from the other ones, and was like an inch thick, and the knife didn't knife so good because the handle was so fat. It worked, but it didn't do anything well, and it was heavy and stupid looking in it's fat nylon webbing case pulling on my belt like a lead weight.
Anyway, there's one thing that US cell phones do that EU phones don't. CDMA.
Spot on. Actually, I also meant to complain about concept manufacturers "throwing-in" a software part to differentiate their products, when they're really the same thing. We should keep things as simple as possible, where the media is the media whether it's a stamped aluminum sheet covered in resin, bumps on a vinyl platter, or scratches in stone tablets. Another poster referred to ext3, reiserfs, and NTFS, which are definately different ways of presenting the data, it is true. But you wouldn't buy a ext3-only hard disk or a NTFS-only hard disk. You would expect your hdd to be filesystem agnostic. These new disks should be block devices that don't care how they're formatted, or what country they're in.
I can see now, looking back, how using only the word "gobbledigook" fails to adequately express those sentiments.
--disclaimer: I do not understand enough about the drives in question to know whether they are similar enough to be exactly the same except for software, but it does seem they are headed that way from other posts on similar topics.
The codec is irrelevant. The data layout is irrelevant. The interactivity handling is even irrelevant. All of that is handled in the software. What it all boils down to is the means of putting the ones and zeros on the disk. can they be read by the same laser & optics? if so, they are really the *same* format regardless of the other gobbledigook thrown in there to confuse the issue.
That's a pretty good plan. But you should add in a velocity component. Maybe make the fine correspond to the energy of the potential collision, since the damage roughly corresponds to it.
What? Ham radio? That hobby crosses political lines if ever there was one. It's a lot like stamp collecting. In fact, it really is a lot like stamp collecting. people actually collect cards with stamps on them...
This scheme removes one of the principle benefits of photovoltaic power: namely that it's omnidirectional: it'll still have a decent energy production even if the light source is diffuse. like.. say.. light, but full cloud cover (seems half the weather in the NE is light full cloud cover...) or fog. if you're going to bother lensing the light, you might as well use a solar collector to drive a heat engine, which is far more efficient than PVs are right now.
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not if the sensors are basically drop-in components. Then you'd just do the cheapest thing you can think of that lets you concentrate on the thing-you're-really-concerned-about.
But.. who pays for russian satellites...
Ok, but how many cars from the 1970s were around in the 1970s?
now, how many shuttles have we ever had?
A teaspoonfull of salt will not kill you, but if you eat an entire cylinder of morton's, you're gonna have some health problems.
My original point was that an unjust law sparsly enforced, although unjust, has almost no chance of repeal. On a personal level, if you are able to engage in your habit, and relieve your suffering, you will have much less motivation to get the law repealed. Since not smoking marijuana hurts no one, there is no reason to disobey the law in the meantime. I am not arguing about the various merits/problems with marijuana. (although it is likely to be just as bad for your health as cigarette smoking, since either way you're inhaling a tremendous amount of burning-leaf combustion products)
We have the same problem with immigration. It is apparant by the arguments of those who want amnesty for illegal immigrants that there is a labor scarcity in the roles they tend to fill. But the solution isn't to turn a blind eye to illegal immigration. The answer is to increase quotas and make legal immigration easier, or repeal the immigration laws entirely.
Do you really think that putting yourself at risk of incarceration is a swifter path to your goal than presenting cogent and compelling arguments before the appropriate legislative body, organizing petitions and rallies, running for office with that as a key point in your platform so as to have a mandate, filing lawsuits on constitutional grounds or pooling resources for same?
You are mistaken. Your duty is not to defy the laws, but to oppose them. If you cannot tell the difference, then clearly "a little ganja" is more destructive than you have been lead to believe. Hint: you can oppose a law without ever violating it. The only time you are required to defy the law is if the law requires you do do something unjust. You can satisfy your duty by not doing that thing.
Standing up for civil rights for african americans during the 50s is an entirely different proposition than standing up for the right to a little hedonistic pleasure, and you insult the participants of the former by equating the two.
There is zero benefit to society or the individual from recreational use of cannabis, so there is no justification to be noncompliant while waiting for your efforts to repeal anti-marajuana laws to come to fruition.
But why is it that the unions are the ones complaining about the lack of unionism, low pay, healthcare issues and not the employees themselves?
Why do professional sports leagues need tax breaks to build stadiums?
answer: they don't. communities are stupid enough to offer them for the prestige, or because the leaders want to appear to be pro-active at generating jobs, and bringing in a big anything brings in a measureable feather for their caps. Companies however are not so foolish as to ignore this trend, and are certainly willing to play communities against each other for the greatest benefit.
You can hardly blame the companies for the sins of the city planners. If you let the fox into the chicken coop, do you blame the fox for what happens next?
Seriously. Why don't they have a version that's just the stunts and none of the "gross-outs" I can't be the only person that doesn't want to see how many live, buttered worms people can eat with chopsticks.
Wait.. calc?? save yourself some money and buy a dedicated, portable device that provides all the functionality and more for no more than the cost of a couple submarine sandwiches. If your math needs are served by calc, you don't need a computer. you need a pencil.
So, reading between the lines..
Do you believe that we must continue to pay for bad art with public funds so that those people won't accidentally get hired into marketing positions where they have the potential to make decisions that actually affect more than their cult following of outcasts and misfits?
You're right. people are concerned with their freedom to break the law when the law is unjust & poorly enforced. If the law is enforced absolutely and unwaveringly, people would have to actually do something about the unjust law rather than simply pretend it doesn't exist.
If you really believe that speed limits are unjust (or at least the current ones.) you should do everything you can to get them enforced 100% across the board without mercy. Hopefully, we can put an end to all the "If it saves even one life, it's worth it," people. I mean, seriously... the only way to have zero fatalities on the road is to lower the speed limits to 3 m/s (brisk walk) and outlaw any type of mechanical conveyance. Everyone's willing to risk SOME loss of life for the sheer convenience of rapid travel. The only question is, what level of risk is acceptable at a societal level for the benefits of a nationwide transportation system?
fixed.
"This guy writes like a young me."
"Please. yung mi was a hack compared to this guy."
what? fortune cookies are san fransisco-ian and not japanese, you say? pshaww.
Yay. yet another biometric id that fails to address the most important feature of passwords. namely that they can be changed when compromised.
ok, it appears that if, in the next 40 years, this becomes possible, there should be a way to change the brain pattern if one becomes compromised, but the whole thing seems needlessly complicated.
Enterprise was never intended to be a prequel per se. This was evident from the very first episode when they introduced the "Temporal Cold War." However you feel about that particular device, it enables the writers to deviate pretty much as much as they want to because by the end of it, "well that happened in another timeline." It bothered me that "fans" would complain about things that were obviously the result of the temporal machinations as being non-canon. Of COURSE they were non-canon, they were the result of time-traveling maurauders. The question should've been whether or not they were compelling stories, which the viewers aparantly decided they were not.
With iTunes (and I presume the other services) you can preview each song and buy only the ones you intended to. If the whole album is great songs, you don't get much benefit though. Preview definately helped with avoiding remixes (or non remixes if you're looking for the remix) and songs that simply aren't as interesting as you think they might be. I know you can preview at the record store, but it's usually a very limited selection.
Ahh and that brings up the selection issue. itunes vs. record store is a lot like netflix vs. movie store in terms of total volume of titles. Not to mention the instant gratification. Certainly there are drawbacks, but everything has drawbacks & benefits and the point of trade is to decide which is more important to you.
Actually, quite a few ISPs do just that. Oh they won't protect you from a piece of spyware reporting info about you to some third party, but they will cut down the damage you can do if your computer gets zombified by disconnecting you from the internet and sending a nasty letter.
Not only is the test impossible to pass, you can't even cheat.
The pictures are high enough resolution for you to see the sites, and visit them, so I used the age old method of: visit with firefox, see if the noscript plugin gets mad at me. Most of the used javascript, so that wasn't any help and I assumed they were all risky and picked at random.
one interesting set was the very first one:
cool-screensavers.com vs. ratloaf.com. cool used javascript, ratloaf did not, yet ratloaf was aparantly the offender.
so.. aparantly people are downloading spyware voluntarily? It would seem to me that if that is the case, the site itself isn't what's dangerous, but it's content.
Interestingly, the quiz required javascript.
why does everything freakin' thing require javascript to display two words or use webforms?
I used to have that swiss army knife that did everything.. You know the one that had ALL the tools from the other ones, and was like an inch thick, and the knife didn't knife so good because the handle was so fat. It worked, but it didn't do anything well, and it was heavy and stupid looking in it's fat nylon webbing case pulling on my belt like a lead weight.
Anyway, there's one thing that US cell phones do that EU phones don't. CDMA.
Spot on. Actually, I also meant to complain about concept manufacturers "throwing-in" a software part to differentiate their products, when they're really the same thing. We should keep things as simple as possible, where the media is the media whether it's a stamped aluminum sheet covered in resin, bumps on a vinyl platter, or scratches in stone tablets. Another poster referred to ext3, reiserfs, and NTFS, which are definately different ways of presenting the data, it is true. But you wouldn't buy a ext3-only hard disk or a NTFS-only hard disk. You would expect your hdd to be filesystem agnostic. These new disks should be block devices that don't care how they're formatted, or what country they're in.
I can see now, looking back, how using only the word "gobbledigook" fails to adequately express those sentiments.
--disclaimer: I do not understand enough about the drives in question to know whether they are similar enough to be exactly the same except for software, but it does seem they are headed that way from other posts on similar topics.
With the price of gold these days, it's not so much of a workout as it used to be.
The codec is irrelevant. The data layout is irrelevant. The interactivity handling is even irrelevant. All of that is handled in the software. What it all boils down to is the means of putting the ones and zeros on the disk. can they be read by the same laser & optics? if so, they are really the *same* format regardless of the other gobbledigook thrown in there to confuse the issue.
That's a pretty good plan. But you should add in a velocity component. Maybe make the fine correspond to the energy of the potential collision, since the damage roughly corresponds to it.
What? Ham radio? That hobby crosses political lines if ever there was one. It's a lot like stamp collecting. In fact, it really is a lot like stamp collecting. people actually collect cards with stamps on them...
If you think notepad is good, try using the "cat >" editor. Much smaller executable, and can handle files as large as the filesystem can handle.
This scheme removes one of the principle benefits of photovoltaic power: namely that it's omnidirectional: it'll still have a decent energy production even if the light source is diffuse. like.. say.. light, but full cloud cover (seems half the weather in the NE is light full cloud cover...) or fog. if you're going to bother lensing the light, you might as well use a solar collector to drive a heat engine, which is far more efficient than PVs are right now.