You touched on, but kinda missed my point: International Megacorps are beholden to no country and all countries at the same time. Nobody wants to cut themselves off from the US market, so they're going to play by US rules. But by that measuring stick, nobody wants to cut themselves off from the EU market or the Eastern market either (can't say the same for the mid-east).
I think the fact that it's an American company being ordered to produce the data factors in here. The judge does have jurisdiction over the company, which makes it a different situation from ordering a company in another country to turn over data stored there. If you want to get out of a country's legal jurisdiction, you need to be out of their jurisdiction.
What is an "American" company? MS Europe is incorporated in Ireland, has a datacentre in Ireland, and pays taxes in Ireland. The FBI should be approaching the Irish authorities for access to this data.
Or look at it another way: Is Sony USA an American company, or a Japanese company? If it's a Japanese company, that means that the Japanese have the right to all data stored on Sony USA servers.
Or let's take this further: let's say the government of China had reason to believe that Cisco China had an NSA backdoor in its products as they were being deployed in China, and so ordered Cisco USA to turn over all emails, technical specifications and documentation.
Rinse and repeat with pretty much any middle east country and Haliburton.
This is a dangerous precedent for the US to set, as their only possible responses to foreign country's requests for similar information would be either "sure, here it is" or "sorry, we have a bigger army. Don't mess with us." Land of the Free much?
Well, he could use a software radio module, and reverse engineer the whole GSM thing (but leave the SIM card to do the crypto with the towers). Should be possible, and you'd end up with a phone that could use the software radio to do funky low-level things across the spectrum.
Of course, such a thing would be illegal in most places where phones are used.
A single mode fiber allows for Tbps, over significantly longer distances than any electrical high speed communication, and fits into a connector as tiny as you can make them. Add two copper wires for power and then leave it alone for at least a decade.
I think you just explained why this hasn't been done.
True, but there have always been free or heavily discounted horses available, for people connected to the right circles. Horses that were raised for show and turned out not to have the correct temperament, horses bought for children who left home, etc. Not all of them can be trained to pull a cab in traffic, but many can.
The economic downturn definitely flooded the market though; people tend to prefer a roof over their own heads to a paddock for their horse.
ANYBODY flying over this area can take pictures, video etc. Is it somehow a problem because the police do it?
Actually, yes -- there are limits to the power of public figures because they also have the ability to abuse said power. If you give someone whose mandate is to enforce the law (catch people doing bad things) the ability to surveil public spaces and review every aspect of that space at any time, you're changing the social contract with law enforcement from how it is currently accepted.
Of course, in reality, this would save money/taxes, resulting in a smaller arrest/fine quota needed, so the smaller police forces could spend more time actually dealing with major issues and less time responding to bogus calls. Right?
I don't think this would help with domestic disturbance calls, which is what the police spend the majority of their time on.
When you use the mset attribute, you would be saying where the content is hosted, yes? What happens when sites like the Wayback Machine cease to exist?
That's obvious -- before it ceases to exist, it should use the mset tag to the Google archive or the Coral cache! That way, when someone points at the archive.org page that no longer exists because the server's offline, they get, er, redirected instead of a 404. Yeah, that's it!
This is a client-side issue, not a server-side issue. You can fix a few 404 issues server-side by practicing good hosting, but it's really down to the client browser to go and find a reasonable facsimile should the original page go down.
Since finding that page requires some sort of a link, maybe whoever provides the link should cache the page they link to, and provide that cache as the alternative if the original 404s? If you've got it bookmarked, the cache would be in the bookmark (also doubles as offline reference); if it's Google search, they've already got the cache -- if it's some blog, they've cached the basic HTML output of the target page. Of course, this tramples all over copyright and security issues (new attack vector: craft a page that infects sites that linkcache it), so won't likely fly. Easier just to use Errorzilla and call it a day.
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Grizzly Adams wouldn't use such a thing; he'd just carry a double-bladed axe -- the multi-purpose tool for all situations including defending against a pack of wolves or a mountain lion.
Never got to use an adze, but always thought that it looked like a good idea for certain surfaces. Used a sharpened pickaxe for hollowing and debarking, which is where an adze is usually used. Probably would have been easier/safer with an adze handle.
One thing I can say about chopping wood for a living.. Sure makes programming and engineering look like a cushy job.
Well, sometimes I pine for the days of splitting wood. There's no amount of technique that'll compensate for the beating that my wrists get from using a keyboard all day.
That's why you wear a full-length lumberman's jacket while splitting. The heavy flannel absorbs the projectiles.
Of course, using a maul swing instead of an axe swing with a maul also helps, as there's little chance of shanking. It also doesn't wear you out in ten minutes.
The problem with this is that the swinging technique for an axe, a maul, and this thing would all be different. So you'd need three guys, each an expert at that tool, to split with each of the three blades on a wide selection of rounds (green, dry, knotty, wide-ringed, etc.). That should show a reasonable result.
Not an axe, axes are not used to split wood. That is a splitting maul, mauls and wedges are used to split wood. And that is actually probably closer to a froe than a maul.
99% of the population would take one look at that and call it an axe.
You start getting all pedantic, and it just confuses everybody. Maules, froes, wedges....its just axe-nerdery to the rest of us.
Just let us call it an axe.
This is why we cant have nice things without eternal debate.
99% of the population would take one look at my computer and call it a screen. 20 years ago, 99% of the population would look at my monitor and call it a computer. It's not about being pedantic, it's about people who actually use these things getting annoyed at conflation that loses meaning.
Sorta like a copyright violator being called a pirate or a whistleblower being called a terrorist -- or a Robinson screwdriver being called a hex wrench.
A maul has as much relationship to a sledge and wedge as it does to an axe. An axe is meant for chopping (cross grain) and a maul or wedge is meant for splitting with the grain. Doesn't need to be short rounds either -- although the maul and wedge combo is much better for longer rounds as you don't have to worry as much about binding or swinging technique.
An ax(e) is a rough-wood chopping tool to go across the grain. For splitting along the grain, you generally get far better results with a splitting maul. A sledge/wedge combo is similar.
This "new" type of ax is how an inventor figured out a way to make a chopper into a slightly more efficient splitter than a standard axe. It's still not a splitting maul. Expect it to fail at both chopping and splitting when used for anything beyond the lightest work.
Actually, it could probably be used almost as well as a splitting maul, but the technique would be different (you'd use a chopping swing to do a splitting job). That said, you'd waste more energy with this than using a purposed tool like a maul or wedge. And it'd be much harder on your wrists.
This applies even moreso to using a maul; after learning the proper technique on a splitting maul as a kid, I found I could do a couple of cords a day without it getting too heavy to swing (maul technique is different than axe technique, where you need more force and twist, less dependency on the mass of the head). Before I switched to a maul, I used to wear myself out using an axe, chopping at the wood instead of splitting it. With a maul, I could concentrate less on the force of the swing, and more on accurate placement of the head. Once you master the technique, using a heavier long-headed maul is actually much easier, as it almost always split the wood on the first drop.
Like most tools, there's a great deal of variability and options out there.
Some log splitters are painfully slow, whereas some of the better multi-stage/variable speed types probably work at about the rate I could.
Even with a slow log splitter, I'd rather hang out with a beer and feed the thing over a few hours than spend a half hour with an axe.
Axes are for chopping -- use a maul for splitting.:)
I've always found that while a splitter takes less physical effort, the time taken is about the same, minus the time spent refueling, fixing blade alignment, getting the stuck pieces out, etc.
Plus there's the odd feeling about burning fossil fuels to prepare trees for fuel use -- with me not getting much exercise out of the situation other than a sore back from leaning over to pick up the rounds and load them.
I was wondering about that. If you've got well-seasoned, knot-free, straight logs it splits easily enough with a plain old maul. This may have an advantage over that, but it seems like trying to improve on a situation that's already good enough.
As the GP says, if you're splitting by hand, you're already choosing to do a job by hand that really can be efficiently outsourced to a machine. (And given the high price of this axe, one that's not necessarily all that much more expensive.) The thwack of splitting can be quite cheerful; you feel like you've accomplished something.
I'd like to see it applied to some of the crap I've split in my time, where it takes a dozen carefully-placed whacks to get it to go (and sometimes, not even then). That's not fun.
I had a similar question. When I was first taught to use a maul, I was taught to choose a maul with a handle that puts the kinetic energy slightly off centre from the blade tip -- and if the handle ends up true, to adjust my swing so that at the point of contact, angular momentum is slightly to the side.
I don't see that this really adds anything other than changing the swing technique needed to use it to an even curve with a straight grip instead of a twist grip -- and it seems to me that this could be a bit jarring on your wrists as the momentum from the design overcomes the way you're holding the axe.
Wouldn't it be better just to learn how to swing a maul efficiently?
Interestingly, I was reading a National Geographic from 1914 a while back, and lo and behold: a two page spread on the new top-of-the-line Electric Vehicle Company's fleet of all-electric vehicles being deployed in NYC.
The saga of the Electric Vehicle Company is fodder for a movie. It involved so many shell companies, buyouts, people who ignored the realities to pursue the dream, intrigue, national bailouts, etc. that I'm surprised it almost vanished into history. There's even an interesting bit about Canada/US ownership squabbles. Eventually it was turned over to a consortium of interested parties, and fizzled out when people discovered gasoline-powered automobiles were gaining traction.
End the industry, and it reduces demand for horses. It's not like if there's no demand for horses, they're going to keep breeding them just to send to dog food factories. (And there are a lot being eaten by humans actually. Not sure a lot are being fed to dogs in the US.)
As it stands, they're used to pull carriages, THEN they're sent to slaughter. They don't get sent somewhere magical once they're no longer useful pulling carriages.
Depends on the company. I know of a few companies that take horses whose owners can no longer afford to own them, and train those to pull carriages (so they already have a second lease on life). At the end of their service, they're put out to pasture at a petting/riding farm.
This definitely isn't how all carriage businesses work, but a growing number do. Sure, the animals don't get to choose their vocation, and they don't get to magically revert thousands of years of domestication to roam free in the eurasian steppes once again, but it's a life, and not a bad one at that.
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You touched on, but kinda missed my point:
International Megacorps are beholden to no country and all countries at the same time. Nobody wants to cut themselves off from the US market, so they're going to play by US rules. But by that measuring stick, nobody wants to cut themselves off from the EU market or the Eastern market either (can't say the same for the mid-east).
I think the fact that it's an American company being ordered to produce the data factors in here. The judge does have jurisdiction over the company, which makes it a different situation from ordering a company in another country to turn over data stored there. If you want to get out of a country's legal jurisdiction, you need to be out of their jurisdiction.
What is an "American" company? MS Europe is incorporated in Ireland, has a datacentre in Ireland, and pays taxes in Ireland. The FBI should be approaching the Irish authorities for access to this data.
Or look at it another way: Is Sony USA an American company, or a Japanese company? If it's a Japanese company, that means that the Japanese have the right to all data stored on Sony USA servers.
Or let's take this further: let's say the government of China had reason to believe that Cisco China had an NSA backdoor in its products as they were being deployed in China, and so ordered Cisco USA to turn over all emails, technical specifications and documentation.
Rinse and repeat with pretty much any middle east country and Haliburton.
This is a dangerous precedent for the US to set, as their only possible responses to foreign country's requests for similar information would be either "sure, here it is" or "sorry, we have a bigger army. Don't mess with us." Land of the Free much?
Well, he could use a software radio module, and reverse engineer the whole GSM thing (but leave the SIM card to do the crypto with the towers). Should be possible, and you'd end up with a phone that could use the software radio to do funky low-level things across the spectrum.
Of course, such a thing would be illegal in most places where phones are used.
A single mode fiber allows for Tbps, over significantly longer distances than any electrical high speed communication, and fits into a connector as tiny as you can make them. Add two copper wires for power and then leave it alone for at least a decade.
I think you just explained why this hasn't been done.
Wouldn't it have made more sense to reference the book? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
That way, you get the precis right off the bat, instead of a tale about how they syndicated the book.
True, but there have always been free or heavily discounted horses available, for people connected to the right circles. Horses that were raised for show and turned out not to have the correct temperament, horses bought for children who left home, etc. Not all of them can be trained to pull a cab in traffic, but many can.
The economic downturn definitely flooded the market though; people tend to prefer a roof over their own heads to a paddock for their horse.
ANYBODY flying over this area can take pictures, video etc. Is it somehow a problem because the police do it?
Actually, yes -- there are limits to the power of public figures because they also have the ability to abuse said power. If you give someone whose mandate is to enforce the law (catch people doing bad things) the ability to surveil public spaces and review every aspect of that space at any time, you're changing the social contract with law enforcement from how it is currently accepted.
Of course, in reality, this would save money/taxes, resulting in a smaller arrest/fine quota needed, so the smaller police forces could spend more time actually dealing with major issues and less time responding to bogus calls. Right?
I don't think this would help with domestic disturbance calls, which is what the police spend the majority of their time on.
Yes; 13 and 14 make it explicit instead of implicit, to avoid any future backpedaling. Same could be done in this case, once the dust settles.
When you use the mset attribute, you would be saying where the content is hosted, yes? What happens when sites like the Wayback Machine cease to exist?
That's obvious -- before it ceases to exist, it should use the mset tag to the Google archive or the Coral cache! That way, when someone points at the archive.org page that no longer exists because the server's offline, they get, er, redirected instead of a 404. Yeah, that's it!
This is a client-side issue, not a server-side issue. You can fix a few 404 issues server-side by practicing good hosting, but it's really down to the client browser to go and find a reasonable facsimile should the original page go down.
Since finding that page requires some sort of a link, maybe whoever provides the link should cache the page they link to, and provide that cache as the alternative if the original 404s? If you've got it bookmarked, the cache would be in the bookmark (also doubles as offline reference); if it's Google search, they've already got the cache -- if it's some blog, they've cached the basic HTML output of the target page. Of course, this tramples all over copyright and security issues (new attack vector: craft a page that infects sites that linkcache it), so won't likely fly. Easier just to use Errorzilla and call it a day.
Also, when it comes to handling all simple 404, there could be a browser extension that would redirect you to archive.org.....
https://www.google.com/search?...
Grizzly Adams wouldn't use such a thing; he'd just carry a double-bladed axe -- the multi-purpose tool for all situations including defending against a pack of wolves or a mountain lion.
I don't think chickens would be able to use this one too well. They don't have the wrist strength for it.
They've got the pecs for it though :D
Never got to use an adze, but always thought that it looked like a good idea for certain surfaces. Used a sharpened pickaxe for hollowing and debarking, which is where an adze is usually used. Probably would have been easier/safer with an adze handle.
One thing I can say about chopping wood for a living.. Sure makes programming and engineering look like a cushy job.
Well, sometimes I pine for the days of splitting wood. There's no amount of technique that'll compensate for the beating that my wrists get from using a keyboard all day.
That's why you wear a full-length lumberman's jacket while splitting. The heavy flannel absorbs the projectiles.
Of course, using a maul swing instead of an axe swing with a maul also helps, as there's little chance of shanking. It also doesn't wear you out in ten minutes.
The problem with this is that the swinging technique for an axe, a maul, and this thing would all be different. So you'd need three guys, each an expert at that tool, to split with each of the three blades on a wide selection of rounds (green, dry, knotty, wide-ringed, etc.). That should show a reasonable result.
Not an axe, axes are not used to split wood. That is a splitting maul, mauls and wedges are used to split wood. And that is actually probably closer to a froe than a maul.
99% of the population would take one look at that and call it an axe.
You start getting all pedantic, and it just confuses everybody. Maules, froes, wedges....its just axe-nerdery to the rest of us.
Just let us call it an axe.
This is why we cant have nice things without eternal debate.
99% of the population would take one look at my computer and call it a screen. 20 years ago, 99% of the population would look at my monitor and call it a computer. It's not about being pedantic, it's about people who actually use these things getting annoyed at conflation that loses meaning.
Sorta like a copyright violator being called a pirate or a whistleblower being called a terrorist -- or a Robinson screwdriver being called a hex wrench.
A maul has as much relationship to a sledge and wedge as it does to an axe. An axe is meant for chopping (cross grain) and a maul or wedge is meant for splitting with the grain. Doesn't need to be short rounds either -- although the maul and wedge combo is much better for longer rounds as you don't have to worry as much about binding or swinging technique.
Umm... I have to wonder, if you replace everything about a tool over time, is it still the same tool?
I think there's a famous quote in there somewhere....
http://fuckyeahterrypratchett....
An ax(e) is a rough-wood chopping tool to go across the grain. For splitting along the grain, you generally get far better results with a splitting maul. A sledge/wedge combo is similar.
This "new" type of ax is how an inventor figured out a way to make a chopper into a slightly more efficient splitter than a standard axe. It's still not a splitting maul. Expect it to fail at both chopping and splitting when used for anything beyond the lightest work.
Actually, it could probably be used almost as well as a splitting maul, but the technique would be different (you'd use a chopping swing to do a splitting job). That said, you'd waste more energy with this than using a purposed tool like a maul or wedge. And it'd be much harder on your wrists.
This applies even moreso to using a maul; after learning the proper technique on a splitting maul as a kid, I found I could do a couple of cords a day without it getting too heavy to swing (maul technique is different than axe technique, where you need more force and twist, less dependency on the mass of the head). Before I switched to a maul, I used to wear myself out using an axe, chopping at the wood instead of splitting it. With a maul, I could concentrate less on the force of the swing, and more on accurate placement of the head. Once you master the technique, using a heavier long-headed maul is actually much easier, as it almost always split the wood on the first drop.
Like most tools, there's a great deal of variability and options out there.
Some log splitters are painfully slow, whereas some of the better multi-stage/variable speed types probably work at about the rate I could.
Even with a slow log splitter, I'd rather hang out with a beer and feed the thing over a few hours than spend a half hour with an axe.
Axes are for chopping -- use a maul for splitting. :)
I've always found that while a splitter takes less physical effort, the time taken is about the same, minus the time spent refueling, fixing blade alignment, getting the stuck pieces out, etc.
Plus there's the odd feeling about burning fossil fuels to prepare trees for fuel use -- with me not getting much exercise out of the situation other than a sore back from leaning over to pick up the rounds and load them.
I was wondering about that. If you've got well-seasoned, knot-free, straight logs it splits easily enough with a plain old maul. This may have an advantage over that, but it seems like trying to improve on a situation that's already good enough.
As the GP says, if you're splitting by hand, you're already choosing to do a job by hand that really can be efficiently outsourced to a machine. (And given the high price of this axe, one that's not necessarily all that much more expensive.) The thwack of splitting can be quite cheerful; you feel like you've accomplished something.
I'd like to see it applied to some of the crap I've split in my time, where it takes a dozen carefully-placed whacks to get it to go (and sometimes, not even then). That's not fun.
I had a similar question. When I was first taught to use a maul, I was taught to choose a maul with a handle that puts the kinetic energy slightly off centre from the blade tip -- and if the handle ends up true, to adjust my swing so that at the point of contact, angular momentum is slightly to the side.
I don't see that this really adds anything other than changing the swing technique needed to use it to an even curve with a straight grip instead of a twist grip -- and it seems to me that this could be a bit jarring on your wrists as the momentum from the design overcomes the way you're holding the axe.
Wouldn't it be better just to learn how to swing a maul efficiently?
Interestingly, I was reading a National Geographic from 1914 a while back, and lo and behold: a two page spread on the new top-of-the-line Electric Vehicle Company's fleet of all-electric vehicles being deployed in NYC.
The saga of the Electric Vehicle Company is fodder for a movie. It involved so many shell companies, buyouts, people who ignored the realities to pursue the dream, intrigue, national bailouts, etc. that I'm surprised it almost vanished into history. There's even an interesting bit about Canada/US ownership squabbles. Eventually it was turned over to a consortium of interested parties, and fizzled out when people discovered gasoline-powered automobiles were gaining traction.
Wrong.
End the industry, and it reduces demand for horses. It's not like if there's no demand for horses, they're going to keep breeding them just to send to dog food factories. (And there are a lot being eaten by humans actually. Not sure a lot are being fed to dogs in the US.)
As it stands, they're used to pull carriages, THEN they're sent to slaughter. They don't get sent somewhere magical once they're no longer useful pulling carriages.
Depends on the company. I know of a few companies that take horses whose owners can no longer afford to own them, and train those to pull carriages (so they already have a second lease on life). At the end of their service, they're put out to pasture at a petting/riding farm.
This definitely isn't how all carriage businesses work, but a growing number do. Sure, the animals don't get to choose their vocation, and they don't get to magically revert thousands of years of domestication to roam free in the eurasian steppes once again, but it's a life, and not a bad one at that.