Especially apt considering that the idea of medieval lords enjoying the right of prima noctis or droit du seigneur was faked up by later writers [wordpress.com]. Lords might have abused women on their properties, but it wasn't a legally enshrined right. Somebody just sold you a bill of goods, rather like the Copyright Board's doing here. . ..
What in my post allows you to assume that I was not already aware of it?
Would I not, if I believed it was historical fact, provide a historical cite, rather than the semi-fictional movie cite that I did provide? You cited to writers, I cited to movie plot. It's even right there in the URL, '#Plot'
I think rather you've sold yourself a bill of goods.
Will Canadians have to resort to secret weddings deep in the wilderness now to avoid being coerced into paying protection money to the CBC, akin to how Mel Gibson as William Wallace in "Braveheart" did to avoid "Primae Noctis", the right of a lord or king to sleep with commoners' brides on their first wedding night?
Here's the thing. Not everyone is going to agree with you, and they aren't going away either. Since you claim to support democracy, the only way you can "defeat" people who don't agree with you is to convince them that your arguments have merit. Putting them on the defensive is a horrible strategy, and will only result in them circling their wagons.
I guess you missed the 2010 elections? Most people agree more with me than with the likes of Obama and Bloomberg. We will "defeat" them by winning elections and tossing them out. And keep tossing them out until there are people in office that truly believe in the Rule of Law, fiscal responsibility, and the Constitution.
I thought Don Quixote was a pretty good comparison. Your giants are a Nazi Bloomberg and a supreme-court circumventing Obama.
Actually, my enemies are Liberal/Progressives and other Collectivists and Statists. Obama and Bloomberg are both just puppets of people like George Soros.
The rest of us see a rich guy who happens to be mayor of NYC and a fairly middle-of-the-road President. To most of us, comparing Bloomberg's limiting the serving size of soda to anything commonly associated with the Nazis is so ridiculous that it becomes hard to listen to what you have to say, no matter how well-thought out.
You seem to be under the illusion that most people see things your way. They do not. Most people do not agree with you. This will be borne out this November. Unless, of course, the vote-tabulation corporation SOE and it's parent company Scytl, owned by a major Obama contributor, manage to corrupt the vote tabulation sufficiently.
...the Judicial Procedures Reform Bill that FDR couldn't get through a friendly congress.
FDR didn't have to get it passed. The SCOTUS caved to the threat before it was passed. I have zero confidence that these Justices wouldn't cave if threatened as well.
Anyway, running around attacking what most people regard as figments of your imagination is not the way to win said people over.
LMAO!! Tell that to the Progressives/Democrats! They've been calling people who believe in the Constitution and the Rule of Law everything from Nazis, to racists, homophobes, ignorant rednecks, anti-women, violent radicals, religious extremists, and everything else under the sun.
George Soros, through the Tides Foundation and it's associated groups, Barbara Streisand, and other Left-leaning organizations and individuals have contributed well over a million dollars to the convicted Speedway Bomber Brett Kimberlin to literally terrorize conservative bloggers in an attempt to silence them! And you say *I'm* "attacking" people? Please. Do some Googling on Kimberlin.
But, that's the way those on the Left have always operated...by silencing opposing voices by any means available, even with violence if needed. That's because their ideas cannot stand on their merits when challenged.
And there you go again, assuming most people agree with your views when that is not the case.
"Strat, clean your room!" "Mom, you are a deviant representative of the dark psychotic tyanny that is stalking this land!"...
No, but my 12-yo grandson, who was reading over my shoulder, said; "Wow, he's really dumb, huh grandpa? Even I know he's sayin' that stuff 'cuz he can't think of nuthin' else. That's why he didn't put his name on it".
There is only defeating it and those who favor it.
Good luck on your quest, brave Quixote.
Wow.
If you think that promoting freedom and combating tyranny is some sort of Quixotic quest, then you have earned the chains of tyranny you'll wear by forging them yourself.
"The liberties of our country, the freedom of our civil constitution, are worth defending against all hazards: And it is our duty to defend them against all attacks." - Samuel Adams
"The truth is, all might be free if they valued freedom and defended it as they ought." - Samuel Adams
"I have sworn upon the alter of God, eternal hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man. - Thomas Jefferson
"Timid men prefer the calm of despotism to the tempestuous sea of liberty." - Thomas Jefferson
The whole healthcare "debate" was framed along the typical polarized party-line, with very little constructive discussion at all.
"We'll have to pass the bill to find out what's in the bill."
Democrats didn't WANT any constructive discussion. Or any discussion at all.
They had control of both the Senate and House, as well as the Presidency, so they just did what they wanted to do regardless of what anyone else, like ~70% of US citizens, wanted.
I wonder...if the SCOTUS looks like it's going to declare Obamacare unconstitutional, will Obama pull an FDR and threaten to increase the number of Justices and pack the court with his appointees?
Bloomberg is cut from this same womb-to-tomb, nanny-state cloth. He's a little goose-stepping Nazi Statist that needs to mind his own business before he pisses off enough people that he finally pisses off the wrong Barrett M107 owner and/or retired special-ops guy that has no problem with sacrificing his own life to defend the US from domestic enemies, as in the oath.
What next? Will it become mandatory for some TSA-like union goon to weigh and check your shit for fiber content and fill out a freakin' government form for each toilet visit?
If you're not OK with subsidizing healthcare for fat/obese people, smokers, heavy drinkers/drug users, and anyone else that engages in risky health behaviors and lifestyles, then stop subsidizing public healthcare!
The government does NOT get to micromanage our diets and/or lifestyles, no matter what the justification is.
Food, healthcare, and housing are not rights. It's not my (or anyone else) right to demand labor, wealth, or property from others.
"If we can prevent the government from wasting the labors of the people, under the pretense of taking care of them, they must become happy." - Thomas Jefferson
"The course of history shows that as a government grows, liberty decreases." - Thomas Jefferson
option one: whine about software and... well thats it, hope it gets fixed automagically option two: either write or help other write/fix the software... job done.
you get to pick either option one OR option two.
OR, how about thinking of the solution in more than black and white, one extreme or the other, terms?
Look, I get it that you write the stuff mostly because you wanted to for your own reasons, and it's wonderful that you've shared it when you didn't have to at all. You're under no obligations, that's understood. But there needs to be some better way to do things that allows the users a more convenient & friendly way for users to find willing programmers and pay for changes/improvements.
How about a web service programmers could join (or not) where users can submit programming tasks and programmers can bid on doing the work? Have a ratings system for both programmers and users/bidders, maybe along similar lines to how Ebay rates it's buyers and sellers.
Not sure if that *exact* solution is workable, but there *has* to be some innovative ideas out there that would work. At least, if people would stop thinking in binary terms.
If someone could hit on the right formula, such a service could become huge. It would also greatly advance the practicality of using open source software. Never mind a whole new way for independent programmers to make money on their terms.
it takes many materials to create an airline or a railroad, it takes a word processor and a compiliar to create a program, the knowledge part is free, and 1000% in your control. and with torrents out there, you can clearly get the tools needed to create such a product to suit your needs
What a narrow view you have, grandma!
You are aware that there are people who spend all their time doing much more important things than write software, right? Like a nurse that works 60-70-80 hours or more a week taking care of sick/dying people, and then has to come home and take care of a family and doesn't have the time or energy to learn programming and then fix some random application.
That "fix/write it yourself or don't criticize" attitude is fine for somebody that doesn't have an important & essential full-time career already, and lives in their mom's basement with all the time in the world and an endless supply of Mountain Dew & Cheetos that your mom keeps stocked.
It doesn't fly in the real world, however.
You really should get out more. There *are* other things in life, and some of those things are more important than coding, even.
so...why dont you make all these pieces of software you believe should be made "your way"? I dont disagree with your wishlist,but dont just complain about it be about it
So nobody has a right to criticize anything that they don't personally have the skills to do themselves?
If you're dissatisfied with the airlines, don't bother with criticism, start your own. Train is late? Don't bitch. Start your own railroad. Your doctor commit malpractice or just does a crappy job? Don't whine, go to medical school and treat yourself. Your lawyer falls asleep in court and fails to properly represent you? Don't file a complaint with the Bar, get a law degree and represent yourself.
Will such votes also be counted by SOE, a vote-tabulation/counting company tasked with counting a large portion of the US Presidential popular vote, which is owned by Scytl, a foreign company that is owned by a major Obama campaign contributor?
What is Jeremy's stance on the SOE/Scytl/Obama-contributor issue regarding vote counting and the conflict of interest and foreign influence possibilities inherent to this situation?
He's a Democrat. Democrats view the Constitution as an outmoded, unjust document anyway.
Well, to be fair, it's Progressives that want to "progress" past/beyond the Constitution, not necessarily all Democrats. Of course, most current Democrats holding office are Progressives, along with a large number of Republicans as well.
It's one of the major reasons why many of those in government from both parties pretty much ignore or end-run the Constitution when it's restrictions are inconvenient to their political agendas. They simply do not believe that government should have any restrictions placed on its' scope and power.
Unfortunately for freedom, choice, and the Rule of Law, they seem to currently be winning. It helps in the Progressive's gaining and maintaining power that they also believe that "the ends justify the means", and so are not restricted by any sense of fair play or obligation to stay within the law.
The NZ authorities didn't have this information before? They've destroyed a company, cost the 'innocent until proven guilty' person great harm, and NZ hasn't even seen the evidence yet to allow the raid? Good grief.
See, you weren't there for "the call".
US DoJ: OK, this Dotcom guy has to be raided.
NZ official: But you haven't even presented us any evidence against him whatsoever!
US DoJ: Speaking of evidence, did you know that US SIGINT is the best on the planet? Did you know we have recordings/copies of all the emails, phone calls, and other electronic data, including photos and videos, sent and received by all the top NZ politicians and government officials? In fact I remember seeing something with your name on it concerning a string of calls to a "transvestite escort service", I think it was?
NZ official: What time do you want us to hit the bastard?
Well, you're technically correct. The "net neutrality" proposals in the US have tried to add government regulation to force AT&T, Verizon, etc to treat all packets the same.
That's the point. The "necessary regulations" to establish/enforce actual ISP network practices for net neutrality would take up only a few pages. That's not the part people have a problem with.
What comes before Congress is one of those abominations that wipe out whole forests to print out. Then it gets metric crap-tons of amendments and riders added to it that make it even more of a stinker. One is lucky if the part about actual net neutrality can even be found without a syllabus or table of contents...that is if that part didn't get (oops) dropped altogether.
If you use "those against $LEGISLATION are just anti-government nuts" as an argument for passing something, you aren't making a real argument. The necessary regulations aren't the problem, it's all the other unnecessary crap that is included that is the problem.
Few people argue against net neutrality in principle. The hard part is coming up with laws. People in the US who argue against net neutrality laws generally don't say they are against net neutrality... just that they don't think they know what the law should be and that the current ISPs are not violating it much.
I would argue that the regular people against "net neutrality" in the US know exactly why they're against it. Because all the legislation proposed so far that has been billed as "net neutrality" with hopeful-sounding titles has had very little to do with *actual* net neutrality (throttling, etc), but have been principally about government gaining more control over the internet.
We're still waiting for a *real* net neutrality bill to be introduced in the US Congress that does not also hand the government far more control & regulatory power over the internet (or at least one that hasn't been instantly killed by one or both sides because of that lack).
I'm a European living a relatively crime-free city, but it boggles my mind that a city in a 1st world country might not have enough police officers to respond to every single gunshot. Just how crime ridden is Detroit, and how long before we see a real life ED209?
Perhaps some visual aids might help you gain a clearer understanding.
Actually, the "Detroit" photo is, of course, not of Detroit. But not far from it. I live just a short drive outside of Detroit. Detroit is a Third-Word city in a Second-World State & economy. If you're wondering how Detroit came to this, just look at who has been in charge of the city and county for decades.
The second link is, of course, self-explanatory and absolutely accurate for the situation I outlined.
If this "entity" was so harmful to human existence, evolution would have destroyed it and it's adherents long ago.
No, he's got it basically right.
Fire is harmful to human existence as well, yet fire and it's users have flourished. Government is like fire. Simultaneously very useful & necessary, as well as dangerous & lethal in the extreme.
Both government and fire must be used only where and when necessary, and in only the quantities, size, and intensity necessary to accomplish the task, and there must always be strong safeguards against either spreading out of control, as left to their own, both will grow as rapidly and as large as possible, finally consuming everything.
Fire is less dangerous, for at least fire cannot spread across oceans to find more to destroy as can governments.
We both believe that government is necessary, correct?
Basically agreed.
I'm not, at this time, discussing the exacts of what powers a government should hold, simply that.. there are two lines in the sand. Crossing over one represents attaining enough power to begin infringing on the rights of others, while crossing over the other represents attaining enough power to be an effective government. And I believe that you cross the first described line long before crossing the second described line. If you disagree with that, then we should be discussing that. If you had been addressing that, then I missed it and apologize.
Any power the government holds can be abused and infringe on individual rights and liberties. That line starts at anything above zero. Basically that's what government is, the people ceding some of their freedom and rights conditionally to the government in exchange for, and in the interest of, forming a nation and governing it.
My views could probably be largely described as "practical libertarian". I'm aware that some government is necessary, but the things that can be dealt with in the private sector should be left to the private sector. The default should always be for less/smaller government and fewer laws and regulations where possible and practical. Government is like fire. You use only as much as you have to, and you keep it tightly controlled & monitored while keeping a fire extinguisher at the ready.
I also strongly believe that the government needs to return to being restrained by the plain reading of the Constitution. As long as the government and politicians can selectively enforce, reinterpret, and outright ignore any part of the Constitution they find inconvenient, there will never be Rule of Law, only the Rule of Men...corruptible, weak, greedy, venal, power-hungry men. America will never regain any of her past greatness, or for that matter avoid a collapse, until the Rule of Law is reestablished.
Next: Current issue of Stereophile has an article on a record (vinyl LP) cleaning machine that uses ultrasound. The author says it's the best he's heard. Or rather ''not" heard, as there are less contaminants to make tics and pops, and less stuff to gum up the needle.
Doubly strange. I seem to recall seeing ultrasonic record cleaners marketed back in the '80s in these specialty/import electronics catalogs like the ones from DAK Industries that were catalog-based discount electronics importers and direct-sale catalog distributors (the internet killed DAK in '92...but since then has been reborn as DAK 2000).
DAK Industries also won a significant precedent-setting court case against Microsoft over licensing/copyright fee payments owed for the time between bankruptcy filing and when final settlements and rulings are complete.
IANAL, etc. Bankruptcy law says that debts incurred after filing for bankruptcy go to the head of the line of creditors waiting for payment. Microsoft wanted to interpret it's licensing agreement for Word to mean that DAK was incurring new debt after the filing, and so should be among the first paid.
The court disagreed. Microsoft had to stand in line and compete with all the other creditors. It's ongoing software license did not count as incurring new debt and thus did not qualify them to be among the first-priority creditors for purposes of bankruptcy settlement.
You realise that tubes are, like the pancreas, internal components, right? Just because you can see the logo on the box doesn't mean you know what's inside the box. This Was The Point Of My Analogy.
Marshall amps became famous in the '60s when *everything* used tubes, at least for consumer electronics, and unless you're from another planet and never read/heard any guitar-god interviews, everyone knows the old Marshalls are the best, just like old guitars. It's become part of the social culture and lexicon. Which. Was. *MY*. Point.
You can stop random people on the street and ask them; "We use integrated circuits and transistors for our electronics today. What did they use instead of transistors and integrated circuits back in the 1950s and 1960s for televisions, radios, and stereos?" A surprising number, even 20-somethings, will answer correctly.
Look, I'm sure there are numerous examples of both types of people, and that we're both right to some extent. I simply think there are more that have some clue due to the rock music culture and the way so much of the minutia surrounding "rock gods", including the instruments and equipment, has become part of popular culture.
Now, if you'll excuse me, I have to troubleshoot my PC. I think there's a bad vacuum tube in one of my central-processor arrays causing random segfaults, and it's a long walk to the CPU building.:)
I think they could have a much larger problem. Since a diabetics eyes can change drastically in a 2-3 month period, and depending on who's data you're using. You're looking at anywhere between 3% and as high as 25% of the average population having a problem with this system.
Pish!
Easy to solve for a government drone. Just make it illegal/against regulations to change your irises. No more high error rates or re-testing/registering, and a significant rise in arrest/detention stats!
In those units, the ultrasound is used to vibrate the dirt and shake it loose. The ones I know of (used in cleaning medical instruments) operate nowhere near the boiling point of the liquid.
Actually, you're correct as far as the units you mean, and I was wrong to include the home ultrasonic jewelry cleaners.
The factory units I referred to, however, used boiling solvents. Of course, many solvents boil at lower temperatures than water. Some common solvents I saw used, like trichlorotriflouroethane, boil at quite low temperatures (118F, 47.7C for "Trich").
The effect of the ultrasound on the boiling liquid was startling. With the ultrasound transducer(s) switched off, the solvent boiled in the normal, roiling way one is used to seeing. When the ultrasound was switched on, the roiling, boiling solvent appeared to become almost effervescent, like a carbonated water or soda container that's just been opened, only the tiny bubbles were far smaller and finer.
I remember watching the line worker at that station madly filling racks with PCBs coming off the line and loading them into the cleaning tank after pulling out the rack already in there, closing the lid, and then rapidly unloading the rack that just came out into static-suppressive plastic parts tubs with a sheet of non-static foam placed between layers. And doing all that while wearing gloves. And also while keeping counts and making log-sheet entries for every lot/job number.
I remember being amazed at the worker's speed and dexterity at loading/unloading the racks. Definitely no 3-martini, three-beer, or two-joint lunches (hey, it was the '70s) doing that job, I'll bet! It looked like an 8-hour-long dexterity and sobriety test designed by some sadistic doctor.
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How many accidental gun injuries/deaths are their in houses that own a gun?
Now compare that to houses that don't own a gun.
Oh! Oh! Can I play too?
How many dead crime victims were unarmed?
How many dead crime victims were armed?
Now compare how many dead crime victims were unarmed to how many (few) dead crime victims were armed.
Wasn't that fun!?
Strat
Especially apt considering that the idea of medieval lords enjoying the right of prima noctis or droit du seigneur was faked up by later writers [wordpress.com]. Lords might have abused women on their properties, but it wasn't a legally enshrined right. Somebody just sold you a bill of goods, rather like the Copyright Board's doing here. . . .
What in my post allows you to assume that I was not already aware of it?
Would I not, if I believed it was historical fact, provide a historical cite, rather than the semi-fictional movie cite that I did provide? You cited to writers, I cited to movie plot. It's even right there in the URL, '#Plot'
I think rather you've sold yourself a bill of goods.
Strat
Will Canadians have to resort to secret weddings deep in the wilderness now to avoid being coerced into paying protection money to the CBC, akin to how Mel Gibson as William Wallace in "Braveheart" did to avoid "Primae Noctis", the right of a lord or king to sleep with commoners' brides on their first wedding night?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Braveheart#Plot
FREEEDOOOMMM!!
Strat
Here's the thing. Not everyone is going to agree with you, and they aren't going away either. Since you claim to support democracy, the only way you can "defeat" people who don't agree with you is to convince them that your arguments have merit. Putting them on the defensive is a horrible strategy, and will only result in them circling their wagons.
I guess you missed the 2010 elections? Most people agree more with me than with the likes of Obama and Bloomberg. We will "defeat" them by winning elections and tossing them out. And keep tossing them out until there are people in office that truly believe in the Rule of Law, fiscal responsibility, and the Constitution.
I thought Don Quixote was a pretty good comparison. Your giants are a Nazi Bloomberg and a supreme-court circumventing Obama.
Actually, my enemies are Liberal/Progressives and other Collectivists and Statists. Obama and Bloomberg are both just puppets of people like George Soros.
The rest of us see a rich guy who happens to be mayor of NYC and a fairly middle-of-the-road President. To most of us, comparing Bloomberg's limiting the serving size of soda to anything commonly associated with the Nazis is so ridiculous that it becomes hard to listen to what you have to say, no matter how well-thought out.
You seem to be under the illusion that most people see things your way. They do not. Most people do not agree with you. This will be borne out this November. Unless, of course, the vote-tabulation corporation SOE and it's parent company Scytl, owned by a major Obama contributor, manage to corrupt the vote tabulation sufficiently.
...the Judicial Procedures Reform Bill that FDR couldn't get through a friendly congress.
FDR didn't have to get it passed. The SCOTUS caved to the threat before it was passed. I have zero confidence that these Justices wouldn't cave if threatened as well.
Anyway, running around attacking what most people regard as figments of your imagination is not the way to win said people over.
LMAO!! Tell that to the Progressives/Democrats! They've been calling people who believe in the Constitution and the Rule of Law everything from Nazis, to racists, homophobes, ignorant rednecks, anti-women, violent radicals, religious extremists, and everything else under the sun.
George Soros, through the Tides Foundation and it's associated groups, Barbara Streisand, and other Left-leaning organizations and individuals have contributed well over a million dollars to the convicted Speedway Bomber Brett Kimberlin to literally terrorize conservative bloggers in an attempt to silence them! And you say *I'm* "attacking" people? Please. Do some Googling on Kimberlin.
But, that's the way those on the Left have always operated...by silencing opposing voices by any means available, even with violence if needed. That's because their ideas cannot stand on their merits when challenged.
And there you go again, assuming most people agree with your views when that is not the case.
Strat
I bet you're 12...
"Strat, clean your room!"
"Mom, you are a deviant representative of the dark psychotic tyanny that is stalking this land!"...
No, but my 12-yo grandson, who was reading over my shoulder, said; "Wow, he's really dumb, huh grandpa? Even I know he's sayin' that stuff 'cuz he can't think of nuthin' else. That's why he didn't put his name on it".
Strat
Wow.
If you think that promoting freedom and combating tyranny is some sort of Quixotic quest, then you have earned the chains of tyranny you'll wear by forging them yourself.
"The liberties of our country, the freedom of our civil constitution, are worth defending against all hazards: And it is our duty to defend them against all attacks." - Samuel Adams
"The truth is, all might be free if they valued freedom and defended it as they ought." - Samuel Adams
"I have sworn upon the alter of God, eternal hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man. - Thomas Jefferson
"Timid men prefer the calm of despotism to the tempestuous sea of liberty." - Thomas Jefferson
Strat
Probably not.
There is no discussion, negotiation, nor compromise possible with tyranny.
There is only defeating it and those who favor it.
Strat
I don't mean to insult you or anything like that, but could you please tone down the rhetoric?
No.
Next question?
Strat
The whole healthcare "debate" was framed along the typical polarized party-line, with very little constructive discussion at all.
"We'll have to pass the bill to find out what's in the bill."
Democrats didn't WANT any constructive discussion. Or any discussion at all.
They had control of both the Senate and House, as well as the Presidency, so they just did what they wanted to do regardless of what anyone else, like ~70% of US citizens, wanted.
I wonder...if the SCOTUS looks like it's going to declare Obamacare unconstitutional, will Obama pull an FDR and threaten to increase the number of Justices and pack the court with his appointees?
Bloomberg is cut from this same womb-to-tomb, nanny-state cloth. He's a little goose-stepping Nazi Statist that needs to mind his own business before he pisses off enough people that he finally pisses off the wrong Barrett M107 owner and/or retired special-ops guy that has no problem with sacrificing his own life to defend the US from domestic enemies, as in the oath.
What next? Will it become mandatory for some TSA-like union goon to weigh and check your shit for fiber content and fill out a freakin' government form for each toilet visit?
If you're not OK with subsidizing healthcare for fat/obese people, smokers, heavy drinkers/drug users, and anyone else that engages in risky health behaviors and lifestyles, then stop subsidizing public healthcare!
The government does NOT get to micromanage our diets and/or lifestyles, no matter what the justification is.
Food, healthcare, and housing are not rights. It's not my (or anyone else) right to demand labor, wealth, or property from others.
"If we can prevent the government from wasting the labors of the people, under the pretense of taking care of them, they must become happy." - Thomas Jefferson
"The course of history shows that as a government grows, liberty decreases." - Thomas Jefferson
Strat
option one: whine about software and ... well thats it, hope it gets fixed automagically
option two: either write or help other write/fix the software... job done.
you get to pick either option one OR option two.
OR, how about thinking of the solution in more than black and white, one extreme or the other, terms?
Look, I get it that you write the stuff mostly because you wanted to for your own reasons, and it's wonderful that you've shared it when you didn't have to at all. You're under no obligations, that's understood. But there needs to be some better way to do things that allows the users a more convenient & friendly way for users to find willing programmers and pay for changes/improvements.
How about a web service programmers could join (or not) where users can submit programming tasks and programmers can bid on doing the work? Have a ratings system for both programmers and users/bidders, maybe along similar lines to how Ebay rates it's buyers and sellers.
Not sure if that *exact* solution is workable, but there *has* to be some innovative ideas out there that would work. At least, if people would stop thinking in binary terms.
If someone could hit on the right formula, such a service could become huge. It would also greatly advance the practicality of using open source software. Never mind a whole new way for independent programmers to make money on their terms.
Strat
it takes many materials to create an airline or a railroad, it takes a word processor and a compiliar to create a program, the knowledge part is free, and 1000% in your control. and with torrents out there, you can clearly get the tools needed to create such a product to suit your needs
What a narrow view you have, grandma!
You are aware that there are people who spend all their time doing much more important things than write software, right? Like a nurse that works 60-70-80 hours or more a week taking care of sick/dying people, and then has to come home and take care of a family and doesn't have the time or energy to learn programming and then fix some random application.
That "fix/write it yourself or don't criticize" attitude is fine for somebody that doesn't have an important & essential full-time career already, and lives in their mom's basement with all the time in the world and an endless supply of Mountain Dew & Cheetos that your mom keeps stocked.
It doesn't fly in the real world, however.
You really should get out more. There *are* other things in life, and some of those things are more important than coding, even.
Strat
so...why dont you make all these pieces of software you believe should be made "your way"? I dont disagree with your wishlist,but dont just complain about it be about it
So nobody has a right to criticize anything that they don't personally have the skills to do themselves?
If you're dissatisfied with the airlines, don't bother with criticism, start your own. Train is late? Don't bitch. Start your own railroad. Your doctor commit malpractice or just does a crappy job? Don't whine, go to medical school and treat yourself. Your lawyer falls asleep in court and fails to properly represent you? Don't file a complaint with the Bar, get a law degree and represent yourself.
See how silly and arrogant that attitude is now?
Strat
Will such votes also be counted by SOE, a vote-tabulation/counting company tasked with counting a large portion of the US Presidential popular vote, which is owned by Scytl, a foreign company that is owned by a major Obama campaign contributor?
What is Jeremy's stance on the SOE/Scytl/Obama-contributor issue regarding vote counting and the conflict of interest and foreign influence possibilities inherent to this situation?
Strat
He's a Democrat. Democrats view the Constitution as an outmoded, unjust document anyway.
Well, to be fair, it's Progressives that want to "progress" past/beyond the Constitution, not necessarily all Democrats. Of course, most current Democrats holding office are Progressives, along with a large number of Republicans as well.
It's one of the major reasons why many of those in government from both parties pretty much ignore or end-run the Constitution when it's restrictions are inconvenient to their political agendas. They simply do not believe that government should have any restrictions placed on its' scope and power.
Unfortunately for freedom, choice, and the Rule of Law, they seem to currently be winning. It helps in the Progressive's gaining and maintaining power that they also believe that "the ends justify the means", and so are not restricted by any sense of fair play or obligation to stay within the law.
Strat
The NZ authorities didn't have this information before? They've destroyed a company, cost the 'innocent until proven guilty' person great harm, and NZ hasn't even seen the evidence yet to allow the raid? Good grief.
See, you weren't there for "the call".
US DoJ: OK, this Dotcom guy has to be raided.
NZ official: But you haven't even presented us any evidence against him whatsoever!
US DoJ: Speaking of evidence, did you know that US SIGINT is the best on the planet? Did you know we have recordings/copies of all the emails, phone calls, and other electronic data, including photos and videos, sent and received by all the top NZ politicians and government officials? In fact I remember seeing something with your name on it concerning a string of calls to a "transvestite escort service", I think it was?
NZ official: What time do you want us to hit the bastard?
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Well, you're technically correct. The "net neutrality" proposals in the US have tried to add government regulation to force AT&T, Verizon, etc to treat all packets the same.
That's the point. The "necessary regulations" to establish/enforce actual ISP network practices for net neutrality would take up only a few pages. That's not the part people have a problem with.
What comes before Congress is one of those abominations that wipe out whole forests to print out. Then it gets metric crap-tons of amendments and riders added to it that make it even more of a stinker. One is lucky if the part about actual net neutrality can even be found without a syllabus or table of contents...that is if that part didn't get (oops) dropped altogether.
If you use "those against $LEGISLATION are just anti-government nuts" as an argument for passing something, you aren't making a real argument. The necessary regulations aren't the problem, it's all the other unnecessary crap that is included that is the problem.
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Few people argue against net neutrality in principle. The hard part is coming up with laws. People in the US who argue against net neutrality laws generally don't say they are against net neutrality... just that they don't think they know what the law should be and that the current ISPs are not violating it much.
I would argue that the regular people against "net neutrality" in the US know exactly why they're against it. Because all the legislation proposed so far that has been billed as "net neutrality" with hopeful-sounding titles has had very little to do with *actual* net neutrality (throttling, etc), but have been principally about government gaining more control over the internet.
We're still waiting for a *real* net neutrality bill to be introduced in the US Congress that does not also hand the government far more control & regulatory power over the internet (or at least one that hasn't been instantly killed by one or both sides because of that lack).
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...and start over with something more fitting like a "Book of How to be Chivalrous".
From an anonymous FaceBook wall:
Post: "Chivalry is dead!"
Comment from friend: "Who?"
And some people I know wonder why I don't have a FB account. :-)
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I'm a European living a relatively crime-free city, but it boggles my mind that a city in a 1st world country might not have enough police officers to respond to every single gunshot. Just how crime ridden is Detroit, and how long before we see a real life ED209?
Perhaps some visual aids might help you gain a clearer understanding.
A picture of a typical Detroit street might convey the atmosphere found there: http://i62.photobucket.com/albums/h103/stratman_el84/Junk/detro.jpg
And this is what happens when you refuse to stop recording cops when they (illegally) order you to stop: http://i62.photobucket.com/albums/h103/stratman_el84/Junk/Cops_government_protecting_and_serving_the_shit_out_of_you.jpg
Actually, the "Detroit" photo is, of course, not of Detroit. But not far from it. I live just a short drive outside of Detroit. Detroit is a Third-Word city in a Second-World State & economy. If you're wondering how Detroit came to this, just look at who has been in charge of the city and county for decades.
The second link is, of course, self-explanatory and absolutely accurate for the situation I outlined.
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If this "entity" was so harmful to human existence, evolution would have destroyed it and it's adherents long ago.
No, he's got it basically right.
Fire is harmful to human existence as well, yet fire and it's users have flourished. Government is like fire. Simultaneously very useful & necessary, as well as dangerous & lethal in the extreme.
Both government and fire must be used only where and when necessary, and in only the quantities, size, and intensity necessary to accomplish the task, and there must always be strong safeguards against either spreading out of control, as left to their own, both will grow as rapidly and as large as possible, finally consuming everything.
Fire is less dangerous, for at least fire cannot spread across oceans to find more to destroy as can governments.
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We both believe that government is necessary, correct?
Basically agreed.
I'm not, at this time, discussing the exacts of what powers a government should hold, simply that.. there are two lines in the sand. Crossing over one represents attaining enough power to begin infringing on the rights of others, while crossing over the other represents attaining enough power to be an effective government. And I believe that you cross the first described line long before crossing the second described line. If you disagree with that, then we should be discussing that. If you had been addressing that, then I missed it and apologize.
Any power the government holds can be abused and infringe on individual rights and liberties. That line starts at anything above zero. Basically that's what government is, the people ceding some of their freedom and rights conditionally to the government in exchange for, and in the interest of, forming a nation and governing it.
My views could probably be largely described as "practical libertarian". I'm aware that some government is necessary, but the things that can be dealt with in the private sector should be left to the private sector. The default should always be for less/smaller government and fewer laws and regulations where possible and practical. Government is like fire. You use only as much as you have to, and you keep it tightly controlled & monitored while keeping a fire extinguisher at the ready.
I also strongly believe that the government needs to return to being restrained by the plain reading of the Constitution. As long as the government and politicians can selectively enforce, reinterpret, and outright ignore any part of the Constitution they find inconvenient, there will never be Rule of Law, only the Rule of Men...corruptible, weak, greedy, venal, power-hungry men. America will never regain any of her past greatness, or for that matter avoid a collapse, until the Rule of Law is reestablished.
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Next: Current issue of Stereophile has an article on a record (vinyl LP) cleaning machine that uses ultrasound. The author says it's the best he's heard. Or rather ''not" heard, as there are less contaminants to make tics and pops, and less stuff to gum up the needle.
Doubly strange. I seem to recall seeing ultrasonic record cleaners marketed back in the '80s in these specialty/import electronics catalogs like the ones from DAK Industries that were catalog-based discount electronics importers and direct-sale catalog distributors (the internet killed DAK in '92...but since then has been reborn as DAK 2000).
DAK Industries also won a significant precedent-setting court case against Microsoft over licensing/copyright fee payments owed for the time between bankruptcy filing and when final settlements and rulings are complete.
IANAL, etc. Bankruptcy law says that debts incurred after filing for bankruptcy go to the head of the line of creditors waiting for payment. Microsoft wanted to interpret it's licensing agreement for Word to mean that DAK was incurring new debt after the filing, and so should be among the first paid.
The court disagreed. Microsoft had to stand in line and compete with all the other creditors. It's ongoing software license did not count as incurring new debt and thus did not qualify them to be among the first-priority creditors for purposes of bankruptcy settlement.
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You realise that tubes are, like the pancreas, internal components, right? Just because you can see the logo on the box doesn't mean you know what's inside the box. This Was The Point Of My Analogy.
Marshall amps became famous in the '60s when *everything* used tubes, at least for consumer electronics, and unless you're from another planet and never read/heard any guitar-god interviews, everyone knows the old Marshalls are the best, just like old guitars. It's become part of the social culture and lexicon. Which. Was. *MY*. Point.
You can stop random people on the street and ask them; "We use integrated circuits and transistors for our electronics today. What did they use instead of transistors and integrated circuits back in the 1950s and 1960s for televisions, radios, and stereos?" A surprising number, even 20-somethings, will answer correctly.
Look, I'm sure there are numerous examples of both types of people, and that we're both right to some extent. I simply think there are more that have some clue due to the rock music culture and the way so much of the minutia surrounding "rock gods", including the instruments and equipment, has become part of popular culture.
Now, if you'll excuse me, I have to troubleshoot my PC. I think there's a bad vacuum tube in one of my central-processor arrays causing random segfaults, and it's a long walk to the CPU building. :)
Strat
I think they could have a much larger problem. Since a diabetics eyes can change drastically in a 2-3 month period, and depending on who's data you're using. You're looking at anywhere between 3% and as high as 25% of the average population having a problem with this system.
Pish!
Easy to solve for a government drone. Just make it illegal/against regulations to change your irises. No more high error rates or re-testing/registering, and a significant rise in arrest/detention stats!
A win-win for security theater!
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In those units, the ultrasound is used to vibrate the dirt and shake it loose. The ones I know of (used in cleaning medical instruments) operate nowhere near the boiling point of the liquid.
Actually, you're correct as far as the units you mean, and I was wrong to include the home ultrasonic jewelry cleaners.
The factory units I referred to, however, used boiling solvents. Of course, many solvents boil at lower temperatures than water. Some common solvents I saw used, like trichlorotriflouroethane, boil at quite low temperatures (118F, 47.7C for "Trich").
The effect of the ultrasound on the boiling liquid was startling. With the ultrasound transducer(s) switched off, the solvent boiled in the normal, roiling way one is used to seeing. When the ultrasound was switched on, the roiling, boiling solvent appeared to become almost effervescent, like a carbonated water or soda container that's just been opened, only the tiny bubbles were far smaller and finer.
I remember watching the line worker at that station madly filling racks with PCBs coming off the line and loading them into the cleaning tank after pulling out the rack already in there, closing the lid, and then rapidly unloading the rack that just came out into static-suppressive plastic parts tubs with a sheet of non-static foam placed between layers. And doing all that while wearing gloves. And also while keeping counts and making log-sheet entries for every lot/job number.
I remember being amazed at the worker's speed and dexterity at loading/unloading the racks. Definitely no 3-martini, three-beer, or two-joint lunches (hey, it was the '70s) doing that job, I'll bet! It looked like an 8-hour-long dexterity and sobriety test designed by some sadistic doctor.
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