You would think they would at this point be privy to what is going on with the SWAT calls by now. But oh no. That's not how it works. The police get the latest and greatest machine guns, tanks, tactical outfits, and all the chicks, and they have ZERO accountability for being the soldiers on the streets.
You when it will get fixed?
When they start SWATting top US Federal and State officials, office-holders, their families, & friends. Until that happens, this is just something that happens to those 'deplorables' in 'flyover country' so who gives a fuck.
When they're looking into their own kid's/spouse's eyes as they bleed-out on the floor of their own family room because of a SWATting, *then* they'll care.
Also, there doesn't seem to be a solution proposed about what do to to prevent sea-level rise with so much ice being added? Thoughts?
Thoughts? I think these scientists need to talk to some other scientists about that giant magma plume under Marie Byrd Land that NASA accidentally discovered by satellite recently which they said is causing accelerated ice melt.
Solutions? Adaptation. It *is* Mankind's strong-suit, after all.
Well, alternatively, we *could* have SpaceX mount a couple trillion Falcon Heavy rockets into the Earth's crust and use the thrust to adjust the planet's orbit & inclination, etc
The fuel costs are bound to be hell though, fair warning. Some additional bracing for the Leaning Tower of Pisa might be in order as well.
So we shouldn't ban guns that no civilian needs any legitimate purpose? Claiming you need an AR15 for "self defense" is ridiculous.
The entire point of the 2nd Amendment is to make certain that civilians were allowed to own standard-issue military firearms of the day so that they could be called on as the unorganized militia if needed or to resist the government if it goes rogue, and to protect one's home and family as every individual is a first-responder, police are second-responders.
The average mass-shooter is finished within 2-4 minutes. The fastest average police response times in the US are at least 5 minutes-plus, and typically more usually in the 8-15 minute range. The average mass-shooter stops his slaughter and shoots himself at the first indication of an armed defender.
The #metoo people should support the 2ndA as a firearm gives a woman an equalizer against the greater average size and strength of men versus the average woman.
Amend the Constitution if you want to change the Constitutional civil right for an individual to own a firearm. Trying to circumvent the BoR for any reason is a bad, bad idea, as the same methods used to circumvent the parts you don't like can (and will) be used to circumvent the ones you hold dear.
If the ISPs are no longer Common Carriers, can i bill AT&T for the use of my land for their buried cable and distribution box in my front yard given that i'm not their customer ? $10/day/feet sounds reasonable:)
ISPs were not regulated as common-carriers under Title-II previous to 2015 and you could not do it then, so you won't be able to after 04/23/19 either.
Geez, people! Chill! It's not like the internet prior to 2015 under Obama was some hellish totalitarian/dystopian nightmare.
I think Google changing the "Don't Be Evil" corporate motto was the signal that SJWs inside Google reached critical mass, and they're now in a runaway chain reaction that will eventually doom Google in a metaphorical mushroom-cloud of lawsuits, accusations, bad PR, government investigations, protests, etc etc...oh my, the spectacle should be glorious!
Intel has relationships with pretty much every computer OEM and cloud computing provider -- why do they need to cross their fingers and hope for the best when they can get their partners (who are just as motivated as Intel to have a usable solution) involved in large-scale tests?
One possible answer is because those others might just discover other security vulnerabilities in the silicon, possibly either unintentional in nature and/or some that were requested/ordered to be left in or deliberately inserted by US TLAs.
If you can get a large enough hard and securely locking case (they make them with custom foam), you can put a starter pistol in it (counts as a firearm for the TSA, and legal to posses in every state unlicensed) and declare it at check in.
Not sure, but are you suggesting placing a starter pistol (or actual pistol) in a case along with a guitar to circumvent inspection and possible seizure of the instrument by overzealous agents? You said yourself they will inspect it first, which would defeat the purpose if it is to prevent an instrument's seizure by overzealous agents. Hell, you might even get charged for the attempt to circumvent the regulations.
If you just randomly dropped that whole bit about taking guns as checked baggage, your post seems quite tangential and obtuse following in this thread.
As long as you don't either complete the circuit or break the circuit, yes. However, the act of completing the circuit or breaking the circuit will create a pulse of radio frequency energy when current flow starts or stops.
What if you are in an adversarial relationship with the rest of society,
No, the true adversarial relationship is between those in government who seek more power, wealth, and control versus the population they govern. There are plenty of people who, either through ignorance, propaganda, or hopes they can gain favor with TPTB, that side with concentration of government power.
They are the "useful idiots" that those seeking power always rely on. Historically, they have typically been the first to be disposed of when the "revolution" succeeds.
Talk like that is how you get flagged for a free prostate exam when you go through the airport security.
Hahaha! I've posted stuff *way* more anti-authoritarian than that!
Besides, I have no need to fly commercially and take alternate forms of transport if I do need to travel somewhere, if for no other reason than the fact that I don't trust airport baggage handlers and TSA/Customs eco-warriors with my guitars that have rosewood and ebony fingerboards and ivory inlays that have caused airport authorities to seize other musician's instruments, and which are also adverse to being tossed about carelessly as baggage handlers are wont to do.
It's not new that overwhelming centralization is bad for everyone except those who share the profits of the resulting behemoth. It's not even new in technology - google "bell system breakup".
It's only news that people are starting to talk about it in the context of the current tech giants. The underlying theme is old hat.
Now, if only more people could make the logical connection between "internet centralization bad" and "government power centralization bad", as the same general principles regarding concentration of power & control apply to both.
What evidence do you have that this magma plume is a recent phenomena that caused a sudden increase in Antarctic ice melt rates rather than something that has existed for thousands of years?
I am sure Nintendo are currently very worried about this and will try to get the hardware patched ASAP.
Well, they could tell current owners they must exchange their old Switch for a new hardware-patched version and after some amount of time push a 'bricking' update out to the older vulnerable Switch versions to disable them.
Your argument seems to be that because we can't predict the impacts of our emissions, we should therefore take immediate and substantive action and shut down all our emitting technologies.
Is that your argument?
I already answered if you'd actually bothered to read all the way through my comment. Apparently however you seem to be among those that barely manages to read the title and first line before you REEEEE! and dash out a snarky (if dumb) comment.
That doesn't mean I favor "no limits, pollute all you want". We should take reasoned, well thought-out, pragmatic, economically reasonable, responsible, and practical steps to reduce all forms of pollution. Nobody wants to shit where they eat.
You don't need perfect understanding of every little detail to make accurate general predictions.
I'm glad you said that, I was waiting for someone to post that.
In order to predict the behavior of any system, one must first identify the most statistically-relevant major variables. We don't yet know what they are/could be, or how many are necessary, as we don't know yet what all those major factors are and have a very imperfect understanding of many of the ones we do know about, like ocean currents and magma plumes, etc etc etc.
Humans are a blind man trying to describe an elephant by feeling it's trunk. We don't know what we don't know yet, but it's damned sure it isn't anywhere near certain enough to make predictions accurate & reliable enough 100+ years out that we should make major upheavals in society or cripple ourselves and slow development of civilization.
That doesn't mean I favor "no limits, pollute all you want". We should take reasoned, well thought-out, pragmatic, economically reasonable, responsible, and practical steps to reduce all forms of pollution. Nobody wants to shit where they eat.
Maybe some day, with the advent of AI near, AI could be harnessed to help us understand this immensely-chaotic system we live on so that we can make these sorts of climate predictions with some reasonable amount of certainty.
for a system that will show in great detail how human activity is irrevocably changing the climate of the planet for the worse.
Hate to break it to you, but it actually proves we don't have a thorough-enough understanding of planetary systems to be able to make reliable predictions 100 years or more in the future.
From TFA:
The first results from an array of sensors strung across this region reveal that things are much more complicated than scientists previously believed.
Ocean currents a huge major factor in global climate trends, and here we're still making major discoveries about things like ocean currents and magma plumes.
Only recently it was accidentally discovered by a NASA satellite that the accelerated Antarctic ice-melt rates that had been blamed on AGW were actually being caused by a monster-sized magma plume rivaling the Yellowstone magma plume underneath the ocean floor under the Antarctic.
Given that there is so much we are still learning and have yet to learn, it's patently absurd to insist we can reliably & accurately predict global average temperatures 100 years or more in the future.
Yeah; free national health car is one of the things that your so-called left brings us.
TANSTAAFL
Nothing is free (as in beer). Not even free beer. They just shuffle things around so you don't notice (over)paying for it. And if it's run by the government, it's wasting your people's money, time, and resources to do a barely-passable at best job of it.
Of course, everyone needs to go to college these days, even little Timmy who had a 2.3 GPA in high school and plans to major in philosophy. That's just as good of a financial risk as little Suzy who was the class valedictorian and wants to go into biomedical engineering.
Not only that, but little Suzy is guilty of "ability-shaming" little Timmy and will be heavily ostracized socially and attacked on social media and bullied in school to the point of committing suicide.
In this particular case the methodology and sources are accounted for
Same has been said by multitudes of economists right before being proven not just wrong, but stunningly wrong countless times. On average economists have about the same accuracy as fortune tellers and share many of the same techniques, although admittedly on much different scales.
on the other hand we have your word (and to be honest, I don't think you're doing great).
I'm not claiming to be an 'economist' nor am I attempting to make economic predictions as I don't believe in fortune telling nor witch-doctoring, so naturally my predictive average accuracy in economics is non-existent.
You're in the wrong country. We have a labor board. And they are extremely political. The Left-supporting Unions embraced the NLRB in regulatory capture and made them a political tool for Union and Leftist agendas long ago.
It indicates that Thiel believes in the courts as a tool to get what he wants, not something with any relation to justice.
Oh, so he's taken a page from Leftist SJW groups like "watermelon" eco-warriors, open-borders radicals, and other Leftist extremists, then. What's your problem? That he was successful where so many of the Leftist SJW groups failed?
Slashdot Mirror
You would think they would at this point be privy to what is going on with the SWAT calls by now. But oh no. That's not how it works. The police get the latest and greatest machine guns, tanks, tactical outfits, and all the chicks, and they have ZERO accountability for being the soldiers on the streets.
You when it will get fixed?
When they start SWATting top US Federal and State officials, office-holders, their families, & friends. Until that happens, this is just something that happens to those 'deplorables' in 'flyover country' so who gives a fuck.
When they're looking into their own kid's/spouse's eyes as they bleed-out on the floor of their own family room because of a SWATting, *then* they'll care.
Strat
Also, there doesn't seem to be a solution proposed about what do to to prevent sea-level rise with so much ice being added? Thoughts?
Thoughts? I think these scientists need to talk to some other scientists about that giant magma plume under Marie Byrd Land that NASA accidentally discovered by satellite recently which they said is causing accelerated ice melt.
https://science.slashdot.org/s...
Woopsies!
Solutions? Adaptation. It *is* Mankind's strong-suit, after all.
Well, alternatively, we *could* have SpaceX mount a couple trillion Falcon Heavy rockets into the Earth's crust and use the thrust to adjust the planet's orbit & inclination, etc
The fuel costs are bound to be hell though, fair warning. Some additional bracing for the Leaning Tower of Pisa might be in order as well.
Strat
You mean to like how it was back before mid-2015? And has been ever since?
Shh! Those were the "Internet Dark Ages" before we became "enlightened".
We don't talk about that here. It's against doctrine.
The internet was born fully-formed in 7 days as we see it today under Title-II 6,000 years ago..err, ah...in mid-2015.
Strat
So we shouldn't ban guns that no civilian needs any legitimate purpose? Claiming you need an AR15 for "self defense" is ridiculous.
The entire point of the 2nd Amendment is to make certain that civilians were allowed to own standard-issue military firearms of the day so that they could be called on as the unorganized militia if needed or to resist the government if it goes rogue, and to protect one's home and family as every individual is a first-responder, police are second-responders.
The average mass-shooter is finished within 2-4 minutes. The fastest average police response times in the US are at least 5 minutes-plus, and typically more usually in the 8-15 minute range. The average mass-shooter stops his slaughter and shoots himself at the first indication of an armed defender.
The #metoo people should support the 2ndA as a firearm gives a woman an equalizer against the greater average size and strength of men versus the average woman.
Amend the Constitution if you want to change the Constitutional civil right for an individual to own a firearm. Trying to circumvent the BoR for any reason is a bad, bad idea, as the same methods used to circumvent the parts you don't like can (and will) be used to circumvent the ones you hold dear.
Strat
If the ISPs are no longer Common Carriers, can i bill AT&T for the use of my land for their buried cable and distribution box in my front yard given that i'm not their customer ? :)
$10/day/feet sounds reasonable
ISPs were not regulated as common-carriers under Title-II previous to 2015 and you could not do it then, so you won't be able to after 04/23/19 either.
Geez, people! Chill! It's not like the internet prior to 2015 under Obama was some hellish totalitarian/dystopian nightmare.
Strat
...And the overwhelmingly vast majority of people will not notice any difference whatsoever and wouldn't know it happened unless somebody told them.
Strat
You went full-SJW.
Never go full-SJW.
I think Google changing the "Don't Be Evil" corporate motto was the signal that SJWs inside Google reached critical mass, and they're now in a runaway chain reaction that will eventually doom Google in a metaphorical mushroom-cloud of lawsuits, accusations, bad PR, government investigations, protests, etc etc...oh my, the spectacle should be glorious!
Strat
Intel has relationships with pretty much every computer OEM and cloud computing provider -- why do they need to cross their fingers and hope for the best when they can get their partners (who are just as motivated as Intel to have a usable solution) involved in large-scale tests?
One possible answer is because those others might just discover other security vulnerabilities in the silicon, possibly either unintentional in nature and/or some that were requested/ordered to be left in or deliberately inserted by US TLAs.
Strat
If you can get a large enough hard and securely locking case (they make them with custom foam), you can put a starter pistol in it (counts as a firearm for the TSA, and legal to posses in every state unlicensed) and declare it at check in.
Not sure, but are you suggesting placing a starter pistol (or actual pistol) in a case along with a guitar to circumvent inspection and possible seizure of the instrument by overzealous agents? You said yourself they will inspect it first, which would defeat the purpose if it is to prevent an instrument's seizure by overzealous agents. Hell, you might even get charged for the attempt to circumvent the regulations.
If you just randomly dropped that whole bit about taking guns as checked baggage, your post seems quite tangential and obtuse following in this thread.
Strat
A DC battery and a resistor don't...
As long as you don't either complete the circuit or break the circuit, yes. However, the act of completing the circuit or breaking the circuit will create a pulse of radio frequency energy when current flow starts or stops.
73's
Strat
What if you are in an adversarial relationship with the rest of society,
No, the true adversarial relationship is between those in government who seek more power, wealth, and control versus the population they govern. There are plenty of people who, either through ignorance, propaganda, or hopes they can gain favor with TPTB, that side with concentration of government power.
They are the "useful idiots" that those seeking power always rely on. Historically, they have typically been the first to be disposed of when the "revolution" succeeds.
Strat
Talk like that is how you get flagged for a free prostate exam when you go through the airport security.
Hahaha! I've posted stuff *way* more anti-authoritarian than that!
Besides, I have no need to fly commercially and take alternate forms of transport if I do need to travel somewhere, if for no other reason than the fact that I don't trust airport baggage handlers and TSA/Customs eco-warriors with my guitars that have rosewood and ebony fingerboards and ivory inlays that have caused airport authorities to seize other musician's instruments, and which are also adverse to being tossed about carelessly as baggage handlers are wont to do.
Strat
It's not new that overwhelming centralization is bad for everyone except those who share the profits of the resulting behemoth. It's not even new in technology - google "bell system breakup".
It's only news that people are starting to talk about it in the context of the current tech giants. The underlying theme is old hat.
Now, if only more people could make the logical connection between "internet centralization bad" and "government power centralization bad", as the same general principles regarding concentration of power & control apply to both.
Strat
What evidence do you have that this magma plume is a recent phenomena that caused a sudden increase in Antarctic ice melt rates rather than something that has existed for thousands of years?
Perhaps you missed this /. article:
https://science.slashdot.org/s...
Or, perhaps you were hoping nobody would actually call you on it.
Strat
I am sure Nintendo are currently very worried about this and will try to get the hardware patched ASAP.
Well, they could tell current owners they must exchange their old Switch for a new hardware-patched version and after some amount of time push a 'bricking' update out to the older vulnerable Switch versions to disable them.
Strat
Your argument seems to be that because we can't predict the impacts of our emissions, we should therefore take immediate and substantive action and shut down all our emitting technologies.
Is that your argument?
I already answered if you'd actually bothered to read all the way through my comment. Apparently however you seem to be among those that barely manages to read the title and first line before you REEEEE! and dash out a snarky (if dumb) comment.
That doesn't mean I favor "no limits, pollute all you want". We should take reasoned, well thought-out, pragmatic, economically reasonable, responsible, and practical steps to reduce all forms of pollution. Nobody wants to shit where they eat.
"Reading is fundamental."
Strat
You don't need perfect understanding of every little detail to make accurate general predictions.
I'm glad you said that, I was waiting for someone to post that.
In order to predict the behavior of any system, one must first identify the most statistically-relevant major variables. We don't yet know what they are/could be, or how many are necessary, as we don't know yet what all those major factors are and have a very imperfect understanding of many of the ones we do know about, like ocean currents and magma plumes, etc etc etc.
Humans are a blind man trying to describe an elephant by feeling it's trunk. We don't know what we don't know yet, but it's damned sure it isn't anywhere near certain enough to make predictions accurate & reliable enough 100+ years out that we should make major upheavals in society or cripple ourselves and slow development of civilization.
That doesn't mean I favor "no limits, pollute all you want". We should take reasoned, well thought-out, pragmatic, economically reasonable, responsible, and practical steps to reduce all forms of pollution. Nobody wants to shit where they eat.
Maybe some day, with the advent of AI near, AI could be harnessed to help us understand this immensely-chaotic system we live on so that we can make these sorts of climate predictions with some reasonable amount of certainty.
But, that day ain't today.
Strat
for a system that will show in great detail how human activity is irrevocably changing the climate
of the planet for the worse.
Hate to break it to you, but it actually proves we don't have a thorough-enough understanding of planetary systems to be able to make reliable predictions 100 years or more in the future.
From TFA:
The first results from an array of sensors strung across this region reveal that things are much more complicated than scientists previously believed.
Ocean currents a huge major factor in global climate trends, and here we're still making major discoveries about things like ocean currents and magma plumes.
Only recently it was accidentally discovered by a NASA satellite that the accelerated Antarctic ice-melt rates that had been blamed on AGW were actually being caused by a monster-sized magma plume rivaling the Yellowstone magma plume underneath the ocean floor under the Antarctic.
Given that there is so much we are still learning and have yet to learn, it's patently absurd to insist we can reliably & accurately predict global average temperatures 100 years or more in the future.
Strat
College should be free
TANSTAAFL
"Socialism is great until you run out of other people's money." -- Margret Thatcher
Strat
Yeah; free national health car is one of the things that your so-called left brings us.
TANSTAAFL
Nothing is free (as in beer). Not even free beer. They just shuffle things around so you don't notice (over)paying for it. And if it's run by the government, it's wasting your people's money, time, and resources to do a barely-passable at best job of it.
Strat
Of course, everyone needs to go to college these days, even little Timmy who had a 2.3 GPA in high school and plans to major in philosophy. That's just as good of a financial risk as little Suzy who was the class valedictorian and wants to go into biomedical engineering.
Not only that, but little Suzy is guilty of "ability-shaming" little Timmy and will be heavily ostracized socially and attacked on social media and bullied in school to the point of committing suicide.
Strat
In this particular case the methodology and sources are accounted for
Same has been said by multitudes of economists right before being proven not just wrong, but stunningly wrong countless times. On average economists have about the same accuracy as fortune tellers and share many of the same techniques, although admittedly on much different scales.
on the other hand we have your word (and to be honest, I don't think you're doing great).
I'm not claiming to be an 'economist' nor am I attempting to make economic predictions as I don't believe in fortune telling nor witch-doctoring, so naturally my predictive average accuracy in economics is non-existent.
Strat
WTF Slashdot!? I didn't tick the AC box!
Strat
the labour board
You're in the wrong country. We have a labor board. And they are extremely political. The Left-supporting Unions embraced the NLRB in regulatory capture and made them a political tool for Union and Leftist agendas long ago.
Strat
It indicates that Thiel believes in the courts as a tool to get what he wants, not something with any relation to justice.
Oh, so he's taken a page from Leftist SJW groups like "watermelon" eco-warriors, open-borders radicals, and other Leftist extremists, then. What's your problem? That he was successful where so many of the Leftist SJW groups failed?
Envy is ugly.
Strat