if you look at pre anarchy and post anarchy Somalia you will see that the people there were much, much, much, much better off without the central authority.
I congratulate him for putting "real" journalist's feet to the fire like Jon Stewart (oh the irony).
To what are you referring? I googled for drudge and john stewart and mostly got a bunch of random stuff, mostly people just mentioning them in different messages in the same thread on random blogs.
And how would you know for sure that it would actually boot correctly the next time you actually *need* to?
Scheduled reboots.
Now you are going to say - scheduled reboots is when you do your kernel upgrades.
The problem with that approach is overloading due to bitrot. Kernel ugprades are not the only reason a system will fail to boot. By upgrading and rebooting you are combining the two goals of patching the kernel and verifying that the system is still bootable, which means potentially more effort troubleshooting if something goes wrong. In the past you didn't have the choice to separate out those two tasks. Now you do.
Not just Denmark. GP is just exaggerating, probably to reinforce his personal world-view. Hit up google for recidivism and rehabilitation and you'll find papers like this one that show non-punitive rehabilitation programs can achieve a 25% reduction in recidivism.
While I'm at it, I'd like to point out that more people die of drug overdoses from legal prescription drugs than do from illegal drugs like cocaine, heroin, meth (~8700 vs 10K-13K in 2005 a steadily increasing trend for the decade beforehand while the rate of illegal ODs stayed roughly flat).
If the war on drugs is about stopping people from hurting themselves and the people who depend on them, then what fuck are we doing?
Roughly 25% of people in prison are there for non-violent drug offenses.
We could implement this GPS plan and fund a nice chunk of corporate socialism for the industry around it.
Or we could get the stick out of our ass, end the war on drugs and start making our deeds better match our words about being the most free country on the planet and in the process shave 25% of the taxpayers' prison bill - maybe even more considering how much violent crime is derivative of the drug trade.
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I remember back in the early 80s some DoD contractor had a prototype of a flying "trashcan" like in the Dick Tray comics. I thought it had some sort of jet engine with a steerable nozzle on the bottom. I think it was probably the Williams X-Jet, but I swear it was painted stealth black.
I used to dream about having one of those, and even as an adult I think it would be so cool to fly one of those around.
I'm guessing that the program probably got canceled because of stability problems. But I would expect that now, with high speed DSPs and gyros like Dean Kamen has used for his scooter and his ubercool wheelchair, that the stability problems could be overcome.
But that doesn't mean you aren't an asshole if you do these things.
The reason someone who does those things is an asshole is because he is violating an implied social contract. It's effectively impossible to enforce that contract either privately or legislatively, but it's still a contract.
In the case of stuff like software and map information, it is significantly easier to enforce a contract. After all, they already have a contract in place to begin with, it just doesn't contain the terms that (apparently) the developer would like. Since the contract is completely under his control, he should add those terms (and be prepared for any unintended consequences that occur as a result too).
In a previous job I once got change control approval to clad my entire building in two foot thick lead to prevent ram parity errors.The fools were too dumb to know what they were approving.
Sounds like ISO9000 retardation. There appears to be an unshakable belief infecting more and more companies that process fixes everything. That process can fully encapsulate knowledge so as long as you follow the process, everything will work out perfectly.
In the real world process is primarily for stupid people because smart people already know to do the right thing. Of course that's kind of a circular definition of 'smart' but the real world is messy like that.
That headline made me immediately think of that old screensaver for the Mac with flying toasters - a bunch of humvee's with flapping wings all flying in formation across my screen...
'I've carried more water than Gunga Din for the business community -- the people who pay the taxes.'"
So much for the idea, hugely popular with the 'business community,' that taxes are always just passed through to the consumer. I guess he must be a democrat, right?
PS - it isn't this David Hoyle in case anyone else was wondering...
One approach to avoiding these problems is the treadmill desk. Around five years ago I had a leg injury that made sitting very painful - driving was torture - so I spent about a year standing in front a raised desk each work day. It took about a week to get used to it (the alternative being constant pain from sitting down probably helped to speed my acclimation). Once I had adjusted, I found standing just as comfortable as sitting. I expect that using a treadmill to simply walk at a very leisurely pace would be just as easy and I am planning to furnish my home office with one once the new house is built.
Presumably they will break into your car to install the GPS tracker. That sounds like warrant-needed territory to me.
Nah, they stick it somewhere on the exterior. Like under and behind the bumper.
Someone else has mentioned that installing it in your driveway is trespass - I don't think that's true either - its not illegal for some random dude to walk up your driveway unless you've got signs posted and all. Even if it were, they only need to wait until you drive somewhere and park in public like the grocery store.
Because of what's known as the gorilla arm syndrome, any user interface that requires users to lift their arms for any length of time is doomed to fail in the long run.
Or we could just genetically engineer us a lot more upper-body strength.
Afterall, you purchased the Gilmore Girls when you could have saved money by just watching them when the aired, right?
You mean that? I thought it was too weak to respond to because: (a) watching an airing isn't an option for everyone, especially shows that are not in syndication (b) says nothing about "value" (c) does not address the point that an actual competitive market drives prices to levels near cost of production, hence arguments about value are just smokescreen
If you think its relevant to my original point, you will have to elaborate because it is far from obvious.
Otherwise I can't see anything else you've written other than statements that beg for an inciteful mod.
Well, that's a different argument entirely, one that you didn't make the first time around
No, it is just an elaboration. If you go back and read my post it was all about what is a reasonable search - you were the one who tried to expand it to methods of travel like horses and means of recording like carbon copies and transmission like pony express.
The idea of limiting searches to what a regular guy can do is simply a straightforward way to preserve the limitations on abuse that were part of the context of the court's ruling that there was no expectation of privacy in public.
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Ah, the irony comment made me think Drudge had caught Stewart being two-faced.
if you look at pre anarchy and post anarchy Somalia you will see that the people there were much, much, much, much better off without the central authority.
In case anyone is wondering about the source for such a counter-intuitive claim, he's talking about Peter Leeson's paper Better Off Stateless: Somalia Before and After Government Collapse.
On the flip side, some of Leeson's conclusions are in dispute.
I congratulate him for putting "real" journalist's feet to the fire like Jon Stewart (oh the irony).
To what are you referring?
I googled for drudge and john stewart and mostly got a bunch of random stuff, mostly people just mentioning them in different messages in the same thread on random blogs.
Which Freud do you mean? Psycho therapist?
In this case I think its Psycho The Rapist.
And how would you know for sure that it would actually boot correctly the next time you actually *need* to?
Scheduled reboots.
Now you are going to say - scheduled reboots is when you do your kernel upgrades.
The problem with that approach is overloading due to bitrot. Kernel ugprades are not the only reason a system will fail to boot. By upgrading and rebooting you are combining the two goals of patching the kernel and verifying that the system is still bootable, which means potentially more effort troubleshooting if something goes wrong. In the past you didn't have the choice to separate out those two tasks. Now you do.
Not just Denmark.
GP is just exaggerating, probably to reinforce his personal world-view.
Hit up google for recidivism and rehabilitation and you'll find papers like this one that show non-punitive rehabilitation programs can achieve a 25% reduction in recidivism.
While I'm at it, I'd like to point out that more people die of drug overdoses from legal prescription drugs than do from illegal drugs like cocaine, heroin, meth (~8700 vs 10K-13K in 2005 a steadily increasing trend for the decade beforehand while the rate of illegal ODs stayed roughly flat).
If the war on drugs is about stopping people from hurting themselves and the people who depend on them, then what fuck are we doing?
Roughly 25% of people in prison are there for non-violent drug offenses.
We could implement this GPS plan and fund a nice chunk of corporate socialism for the industry around it.
Or we could get the stick out of our ass, end the war on drugs and start making our deeds better match our words about being the most free country on the planet and in the process shave 25% of the taxpayers' prison bill - maybe even more considering how much violent crime is derivative of the drug trade.
I sit on one of those exercise balls while programming. It keeps you moving and discourages slouching.
However, it puts your spine into a C-shape which is bad.
S-shape is the optimal.
I remember back in the early 80s some DoD contractor had a prototype of a flying "trashcan" like in the Dick Tray comics.
I thought it had some sort of jet engine with a steerable nozzle on the bottom. I think it was probably the Williams X-Jet, but I swear it was painted stealth black.
I used to dream about having one of those, and even as an adult I think it would be so cool to fly one of those around.
I'm guessing that the program probably got canceled because of stability problems. But I would expect that now, with high speed DSPs and gyros like Dean Kamen has used for his scooter and his ubercool wheelchair, that the stability problems could be overcome.
But that doesn't mean you aren't an asshole if you do these things.
The reason someone who does those things is an asshole is because he is violating an implied social contract.
It's effectively impossible to enforce that contract either privately or legislatively, but it's still a contract.
In the case of stuff like software and map information, it is significantly easier to enforce a contract. After all, they already have a contract in place to begin with, it just doesn't contain the terms that (apparently) the developer would like. Since the contract is completely under his control, he should add those terms (and be prepared for any unintended consequences that occur as a result too).
In a previous job I once got change control approval to clad my entire building in two foot thick lead to prevent ram parity errors.The fools were too dumb to know what they were approving.
Sounds like ISO9000 retardation. There appears to be an unshakable belief infecting more and more companies that process fixes everything. That process can fully encapsulate knowledge so as long as you follow the process, everything will work out perfectly.
In the real world process is primarily for stupid people because smart people already know to do the right thing. Of course that's kind of a circular definition of 'smart' but the real world is messy like that.
rather than pointing out that he's completely out of touch with who pays taxes
Which is why I started off with, "taxes are always just passed through to the consumer."
That headline made me immediately think of that old screensaver for the Mac with flying toasters - a bunch of humvee's with flapping wings all flying in formation across my screen...
He also said "tradition" two doesn't make a tradition, at least not at a site with over 10 years of history.
'I've carried more water than Gunga Din for the business community -- the people who pay the taxes.'"
So much for the idea, hugely popular with the 'business community,' that taxes are always just passed through to the consumer.
I guess he must be a democrat, right?
PS - it isn't this David Hoyle in case anyone else was wondering...
FYI - similar information was reported in BusinessWeek a few months ago, referencing studies from as far back as 2005
http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/content/10_19/b4177071221162.htm
One approach to avoiding these problems is the treadmill desk. Around five years ago I had a leg injury that made sitting very painful - driving was torture - so I spent about a year standing in front a raised desk each work day. It took about a week to get used to it (the alternative being constant pain from sitting down probably helped to speed my acclimation). Once I had adjusted, I found standing just as comfortable as sitting. I expect that using a treadmill to simply walk at a very leisurely pace would be just as easy and I am planning to furnish my home office with one once the new house is built.
And I wish you well in your career of reframing other people's arguments to fit your requirement for strawmen.
You keep confusing a heuristic for a rationale. You also completely ignore the part that is key, that I emphasized over and over - the back-end.
Presumably they will break into your car to install the GPS tracker. That sounds like warrant-needed territory to me.
Nah, they stick it somewhere on the exterior. Like under and behind the bumper.
Someone else has mentioned that installing it in your driveway is trespass - I don't think that's true either - its not illegal for some random dude to walk up your driveway unless you've got signs posted and all. Even if it were, they only need to wait until you drive somewhere and park in public like the grocery store.
"You're wrong, and I don't understand you." *smirk*
Pot.
Because of what's known as the gorilla arm syndrome, any user interface that requires users to lift their arms for any length of time is doomed to fail in the long run.
Or we could just genetically engineer us a lot more upper-body strength.
Afterall, you purchased the Gilmore Girls when you could have saved money by just watching them when the aired, right?
You mean that? I thought it was too weak to respond to because:
(a) watching an airing isn't an option for everyone, especially shows that are not in syndication
(b) says nothing about "value"
(c) does not address the point that an actual competitive market drives prices to levels near cost of production, hence arguments about value are just smokescreen
If you think its relevant to my original point, you will have to elaborate because it is far from obvious.
Otherwise I can't see anything else you've written other than statements that beg for an inciteful mod.
My point is that you're not getting the point and your own rationale falls apart in exactly the way you described in your first post.
Then you need to elaborate because otherwise your unsupported claim is nonsensical.
Well, that's a different argument entirely, one that you didn't make the first time around
No, it is just an elaboration. If you go back and read my post it was all about what is a reasonable search - you were the one who tried to expand it to methods of travel like horses and means of recording like carbon copies and transmission like pony express.
The idea of limiting searches to what a regular guy can do is simply a straightforward way to preserve the limitations on abuse that were part of the context of the court's ruling that there was no expectation of privacy in public.