How many innocent civilians in Iraq have been turned into "pink mist?" Make no mistake, WE'RE the invading force there, and it's quite understandable and justifiable for them to hate us. Hussein was certainly no angel, but at least he was THEIR devil. We're foreign interlopers and will be treated as such.
I don't think it's the army itself that defective I think it's the brass, politicians and the American people. America has become extremely risk averse in regards to American lives.
"It is well that war is so terrible, otherwise we would grow too fond of it." -- Robert Edward Lee.
then leave, no one has asked you to stay or put up with a government you don't agree with. This country would probably be better off without you.
It's not the government, it's the whole nanny-state tone of things. ID checks. Random searches. Recordings admonishing people to do this or not do that. Zero-tolerance policies. Laws in the former Eastern Bloc are probably *more* strict, if anything, but people know what it was like to live under a dictatorship, and don't want to go back to those conditions. The USA has never been a dictatorship, and you can't fear what you're not aware of.
I have to admit that it was nice being abroad in eastern Europe and just being able to jump on an intercity train with no ID check or surly recordings telling people not to eat/smoke/drink/live...
And, BTW, _western_ Europe and the UK aren't better than the USA as far as civil rights.
If people STOPPED ignoring and/or circumventing them and INSTEAD stood up to them, "stupid goosesteppers" would get the negative attention they deserve and things might start to change for the better. Get a clue.
You can't stand up to every moron every time, though. If you do, you'll spend all your time arguing and none of it living. Maybe stand up to the more egregious idiots say 5% of the time, and other people will stand up to the other 95% at various times. The bad PR will still get around... I do agree that people should be more proactive.
And people aren't going to leave their phone at home (perhaps the movies isn't the only place you're going while you're out) and I for one am not going to leave an expensive phone in my car since, if that's the policy, thieves are going to know that cars outside theaters are target-rich environments for cell phones.
Also, not everyone even OWNS a car or uses it while going out. Maybe they do in the suburbs or out in the country, but in larger cities people tend to walk a lot more. Picture this: you have a cell phone for work. You decide to go with a friend for a movie after work and don't have time to stop off at home.
Maybe the solution is lockers in movie theatres, but then people will scream about the risk of terrorism. Oye, you can't win ^_^
Libertarianism would certainly not tolerate this guy, as he was running a scam, committed what any sane person would consider real crimes, and solicited murder
I see the other problems with his actions, but nowhere in the article does it say that he was running a scam. He was actually providing the medications, not taking people's money and giving zero in return. The only "scam" he was perpetrating was an end-run around FDA/DEA regs, and in this case, more power to him!
Nah, don't wait that long. Wait until it comes out as a Torrent:) If you have any moral scruples, send the production company an anonymous money order for the price of the show.
The world would be a better place if people told less "harmless" lies. Don't be an advocate for poor human behavior.
The US would be a better place if there were fewer employees/security guards/cops who followed laws mindlessly. Stupid goosesteppers are best circumvented or ignored if possible. Actually, outside the US, especially in developing countries and Eastern Europe, they DO show a lot more discretion and don't sweat the minor things.
Makes me glad that I'm a Polish citizen as well as an American one, and if some "law-and-order" asswipe gets elected Prez in 08, I'm moving:)
However, this is possibly even WORSE than other illicit drugs because it undermines the rules that are in place to ensure the safe and legal distribution of drugs to those who need them.
How does it undermine ANYTHING? People can still get the drugs with a doctor's prescription. And I'd much rather have opiate addicts popping pills than shooting heroin with dirty needles and spreading HIV+ among other things!
Even their current "guestimate" of 1 in 100 is off by half.
Not necessarily -- there haven't been enough missions to prove or disprove their current estimate. Let's say you have a 1 in 10,000 estimated chance of getting in a car accident on a given trip. You drive to the store, get in an accident. Next day, someone crashes into your rental car. Does this make cars 100% likely to crash? No.
If you must use the American format at least say "April 1st". Otherwise the rest of the world is left wondering what's special about the 4th of January.
You can have my internal combustion engine when you pry it from my cold dead hands.
I like the fact that an electric motor can produce 100% of its torque from a standstill. If you can get the energy storage down, electrics actually have performance advantages over gas engines.
To give an example, people liked the noises and smoke made by steam engines and romanticized them. But diesel and electric locomotives ended up being just more practical in the end.
Oh wait, my bad. The EV-1 went 100-150 miles on a single charge.
EV-1 was a strictly electric car. This is a hybrid that can be charged from the grid AS WELL as using gasoline. Big difference in the space you have for batteries. Also, this is a sedan, not a 2-seater liek the Volt. Still, I think that a more reasonable range would be 20 miles or so...
Waiting at stoplights isn't going to wear you battery down much.;-)
Actually it will quite a bit. You're not only using the battery for moving the car. Lights, wipers, fans, A/C, etc are actually quite significant (car A/C takes several HP or a few kW to run).
8 miles? under ideal conditions, flat road, no a/c... very disappointing.
It's probably just a Prius with different software and a charger built in. The Prius' batteries were never designed for long-distance running, just for load levelling. Also, there might be protections built in to keep the batteries from discharging too far in order to keep the batteries' useful lifetime reasonable.
If anyone started designing a forum today or in the near future from scratch when 3D graphic cards are dirt cheap, then participants would express themselves and interact with each other graphically (people love expressing themselves, especially visually) and forums would look quite a bit like cyberworlds.
A lot of information is in textual form. A full-scale cyberworld doesn't help you organize that info, and having to "move around" it to find info would be a hindrance not a help. An emulation of a world takes more attention to use than a Web-type interface.
It does have its place though, for things like demonstrating products for sale, apartments, teaching stuff that involves moving around... But I think that 3-D animations, visuals, and linke to Second Life areas might ultimately be incorporated into the Web via links and viewers rather than being a seperate Web.
Slashdot Mirror
-b.
Mod parent up insightful please.
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How many innocent civilians in Iraq have been turned into "pink mist?" Make no mistake, WE'RE the invading force there, and it's quite understandable and justifiable for them to hate us. Hussein was certainly no angel, but at least he was THEIR devil. We're foreign interlopers and will be treated as such.
-b.
So did the Germans -- they used tracked vehicles that were basically mobile landmines in the Warsaw Uprising.
"It is well that war is so terrible, otherwise we would grow too fond of it." -- Robert Edward Lee.
Those more closely resemble daleks than Asimov's humanoid robots :)
It's not the government, it's the whole nanny-state tone of things. ID checks. Random searches. Recordings admonishing people to do this or not do that. Zero-tolerance policies. Laws in the former Eastern Bloc are probably *more* strict, if anything, but people know what it was like to live under a dictatorship, and don't want to go back to those conditions. The USA has never been a dictatorship, and you can't fear what you're not aware of.
I have to admit that it was nice being abroad in eastern Europe and just being able to jump on an intercity train with no ID check or surly recordings telling people not to eat/smoke/drink/live...
And, BTW, _western_ Europe and the UK aren't better than the USA as far as civil rights.
-b.
You can't stand up to every moron every time, though. If you do, you'll spend all your time arguing and none of it living. Maybe stand up to the more egregious idiots say 5% of the time, and other people will stand up to the other 95% at various times. The bad PR will still get around... I do agree that people should be more proactive.
-b.
Also, not everyone even OWNS a car or uses it while going out. Maybe they do in the suburbs or out in the country, but in larger cities people tend to walk a lot more. Picture this: you have a cell phone for work. You decide to go with a friend for a movie after work and don't have time to stop off at home.
Maybe the solution is lockers in movie theatres, but then people will scream about the risk of terrorism. Oye, you can't win ^_^
-b.
I see the other problems with his actions, but nowhere in the article does it say that he was running a scam. He was actually providing the medications, not taking people's money and giving zero in return. The only "scam" he was perpetrating was an end-run around FDA/DEA regs, and in this case, more power to him!
-b.
Nah, don't wait that long. Wait until it comes out as a Torrent :) If you have any moral scruples, send the production company an anonymous money order for the price of the show.
-b.
The US would be a better place if there were fewer employees/security guards/cops who followed laws mindlessly. Stupid goosesteppers are best circumvented or ignored if possible. Actually, outside the US, especially in developing countries and Eastern Europe, they DO show a lot more discretion and don't sweat the minor things.
Makes me glad that I'm a Polish citizen as well as an American one, and if some "law-and-order" asswipe gets elected Prez in 08, I'm moving :)
-b.
Hopefully the jury will show some sanity and refuse to convict. Juries are there to judge the law, not just the accused. -b.
How does it undermine ANYTHING? People can still get the drugs with a doctor's prescription. And I'd much rather have opiate addicts popping pills than shooting heroin with dirty needles and spreading HIV+ among other things!
-b.
Not necessarily -- there haven't been enough missions to prove or disprove their current estimate. Let's say you have a 1 in 10,000 estimated chance of getting in a car accident on a given trip. You drive to the store, get in an accident. Next day, someone crashes into your rental car. Does this make cars 100% likely to crash? No.
-b.
Next time, I'll say "prima aprilis".
Cheers,
-b.
(Not the YouTube posting date, but the creation date). *Sigh*
I like the fact that an electric motor can produce 100% of its torque from a standstill. If you can get the energy storage down, electrics actually have performance advantages over gas engines.
To give an example, people liked the noises and smoke made by steam engines and romanticized them. But diesel and electric locomotives ended up being just more practical in the end.
-b.
EV-1 was a strictly electric car. This is a hybrid that can be charged from the grid AS WELL as using gasoline. Big difference in the space you have for batteries. Also, this is a sedan, not a 2-seater liek the Volt. Still, I think that a more reasonable range would be 20 miles or so...
-b.
Actually it will quite a bit. You're not only using the battery for moving the car. Lights, wipers, fans, A/C, etc are actually quite significant (car A/C takes several HP or a few kW to run).
-b.
7.5KM == 1/2 hour of bicycling at a nice, slow easy pace (no sweat unless it's really hot out). Try it sometime on a cooler day.
-b.
It's probably just a Prius with different software and a charger built in. The Prius' batteries were never designed for long-distance running, just for load levelling. Also, there might be protections built in to keep the batteries from discharging too far in order to keep the batteries' useful lifetime reasonable.
-b.
We also have plenty of uranium and plutonium. Time to start building some modern nuclear reactors!
A lot of information is in textual form. A full-scale cyberworld doesn't help you organize that info, and having to "move around" it to find info would be a hindrance not a help. An emulation of a world takes more attention to use than a Web-type interface.
It does have its place though, for things like demonstrating products for sale, apartments, teaching stuff that involves moving around... But I think that 3-D animations, visuals, and linke to Second Life areas might ultimately be incorporated into the Web via links and viewers rather than being a seperate Web.
-b.