Q: What do you call 10,000 dead marketers at the bottom of the Marianas Trench?
A: A good beginning.
Hey, wait a minute....this may be a revolutionary Global Warming/Climate Change solution.
Not only would we be sequestering carbon, but eliminating CO2 emissions from them breathing. All we need to do to make this work is remove the 10,000 marketer cap, and add lawyers and politicians to the list for a good start.;-)
Too true, and even worse, the Second Amendment was too back up the First Amendment...and we have failed on both, not discounting the Fourth Amendment, which has also failed.
Don't forget to download the US Army publication (available many places online, in various formats) : "TM 31-210: Improvised Munitions Handbook". I was issued this TM (Technical Manual) when I was in the US Army in 1977. Instant science geek Massive Woody! The actual printed manual even had many blank pages, with a note at the beginning of the book on how to construct an effective, simple balance scale, and the info that each page of the book weighed one gram!
After the intro of the 'MacGyver' TV series, it became 'the MacGyver Bible' by the troops.
I highly recommend the book for the potentially useful info, and the entertainment value.
DISCLAIMER: Most of the recipes/procedures are dangerous and risky! Keep in mind the context of this manual. Alarmingly, the context is for a would be terrorist, guerrilla fighter, insurgent, etc.....go figure...
I am far out of any area I actually know about here, but consider this:
What if wind, or ocean currents require a rudder correction to maintain course, and the rudder stays 'locked' so that the needed steering adjustments never happen. I can see that ship getting off course, maybe even catastrophically.
I would think that scenario possible, but if I am mistaken, I would like to be corrected.:-)
You cannot have too much knowledge in life. I would rather learn something, than remain ignorant.
This is something I started pondering in the early 1990's: We want and just 'have to' have and use computers to make things easier and faster, yet there is always an uproar and fighting because things get easier and faster...WTF?
When you set about to change something...don't be surprised when change happens!
Face it. If you are going to put it online, you will have to change your business model. You no longer have captive markets to exploit. You will have to return to the old business model of treating your customers (not consumers) better than your competition, you will have to offer better Customer Service than your competition, and...you will have to offer a better value/product to your customers than your competition.
The business world worked well for a long time with this method before the 'digital age'/'consumer instead of customer age'.
One of the downsides of the concept of Intellectual Property I suppose... It changes and limits your thinking somewhat.
Ask Eric Snowden, I hear he has some experience with this very thing.
The ONLY reason Snowden is not a resident of GITMO, is the US can't invade Moscow Airport. If he was in a less powerful country, like Panama, for example, he would already be in custody.
...can't they just go to Mexico and tell people there?
Times have changed somewhat, Butch Cassidy....Mexico, or Canada, are no longer safe havens to escape the US.
Depends on your perspective, as you are facing someone who does not care about the law or YOUR life. I would rather keep on living at the expense of some scumbag assaulting me.
No. I can set a loaded, locked and cocked gun on my table, and it will cause NO problems until some idiot touches it. Obviously, stupid humans are the problem, not guns, nor 'guns in the marketplace'. Deal with the root problem...stupid people.
True, indeed. Mankind has been using objects and materials found around him to kill his fellow man for tens of thousands of years, non-stop. Dead is just as dead, whether it's from being shot with a 3D printed gun, or from being bashed in the head by a rock. The specific tool used is pointless to worry about....the intent to kill is the only thing that really matters.
The most dangerous weapon is, and always has been, the human mind. Good luck trying to control and regulate that!
Wow, I would have been fooled by your UID...that's what I get for assuming!
Welcome to the Geritol Corner. We guard the the Hallway to the Elders (5 digit UID's), keeping the whippersnappers off the lawns. But we are not old enough yet to tell them to "Turn that CRAP down!"
Everyone seems quick to complain when things go wrong, but too few people lavish praise when something is done right.
Allow me to attempt to correct this here....
Thank you, two thumbs up, and an "Atta boy/girl", for your display of courtesy and social responsibility. That behavior and attitude seem to be less common lately.
Hear! Hear!.....Bravo! (I just finished using all my mod points on the previous Fine Article)
While I find the sound level of the musical scores annoyingly too loud, I would rather hear that distraction, than to put up with being subjected to the inane conversations within earshot.
I guess I'm sub-consciously paranoid that stupidity is transmissible...*Hint: There is a valid reason why the President's speech writers have to write the speeches targeting an 8th grade educated audience in the USA...*
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Hey, wait a minute....this may be a revolutionary Global Warming/Climate Change solution.
Not only would we be sequestering carbon, but eliminating CO2 emissions from them breathing. ;-)
All we need to do to make this work is remove the 10,000 marketer cap, and add lawyers and politicians to the list for a good start.
Yet another good reason to avoid ads, and ignore those you can't avoid.
Too true, and even worse, the Second Amendment was too back up the First Amendment...and we have failed on both, not discounting the Fourth Amendment, which has also failed.
Damn, Jacob Appelbaum...I thought you were going to say John Wayne.
Why don't we combine the two?
I get it. :-)
In USA terms: "Bury them in Bullshit."
I applaud this, and will participate gleefully!
The thought of /.'ing the NSA is too much fun to pass up.
Don't forget to download the US Army publication (available many places online, in various formats) :
"TM 31-210: Improvised Munitions Handbook".
I was issued this TM (Technical Manual) when I was in the US Army in 1977. Instant science geek Massive Woody! The actual printed manual even had many blank pages, with a note at the beginning of the book on how to construct an effective, simple balance scale, and the info that each page of the book weighed one gram!
After the intro of the 'MacGyver' TV series, it became 'the MacGyver Bible' by the troops.
I highly recommend the book for the potentially useful info, and the entertainment value.
DISCLAIMER:
Most of the recipes/procedures are dangerous and risky!
Keep in mind the context of this manual. Alarmingly, the context is for a would be terrorist, guerrilla fighter, insurgent, etc.....go figure...
I am far out of any area I actually know about here, but consider this:
What if wind, or ocean currents require a rudder correction to maintain course, and the rudder stays 'locked' so that the needed steering adjustments never happen. I can see that ship getting off course, maybe even catastrophically.
I would think that scenario possible, but if I am mistaken, I would like to be corrected. :-)
You cannot have too much knowledge in life. I would rather learn something, than remain ignorant.
The sandworms are back!
Oh wait, wrong story.
Maybe they should have put the Dune set there instead. ;-)
This is something I started pondering in the early 1990's:
We want and just 'have to' have and use computers to make things easier and faster, yet there is always an uproar and fighting because things get easier and faster...WTF?
When you set about to change something...don't be surprised when change happens!
Face it. If you are going to put it online, you will have to change your business model. You no longer have captive markets to exploit.
You will have to return to the old business model of treating your customers (not consumers) better than your competition, you will have to offer better Customer Service than your competition, and...you will have to offer a better value/product to your customers than your competition.
The business world worked well for a long time with this method before the 'digital age'/'consumer instead of customer age'.
One of the downsides of the concept of Intellectual Property I suppose... It changes and limits your thinking somewhat.
Ask Eric Snowden, I hear he has some experience with this very thing.
The ONLY reason Snowden is not a resident of GITMO, is the US can't invade Moscow Airport.
If he was in a less powerful country, like Panama, for example, he would already be in custody.
Times have changed somewhat, Butch Cassidy....Mexico, or Canada, are no longer safe havens to escape the US.
With the terror watch list having over 700,000 names.....
With that many people on your watch list, you might want to re-examine how your trying to govern them.
*Hint: you're doing it wrong.
Depends on your perspective, as you are facing someone who does not care about the law or YOUR life.
I would rather keep on living at the expense of some scumbag assaulting me.
An armed society is a polite society.
This is a variation of the 'better fences make better neighbors' concept.
The only two possible scenarios disregarding this are:
1. An authoritarian/totalitarian police state, or...
2. Anarchy
No.
I can set a loaded, locked and cocked gun on my table, and it will cause NO problems until some idiot touches it.
Obviously, stupid humans are the problem, not guns, nor 'guns in the marketplace'.
Deal with the root problem...stupid people.
Says you. .by at least one person
Not everyone agrees with you.
His name has been put up for the Nobel Peace Prize as of today,
As a US citizen, I applaud him, and think the traitors and criminals are holding gov't. offices.
No, most of the duffers do not have stripes. ;-)
The whole point about weapons is intent.
True, indeed.
Mankind has been using objects and materials found around him to kill his fellow man for tens of thousands of years, non-stop.
Dead is just as dead, whether it's from being shot with a 3D printed gun, or from being bashed in the head by a rock. The specific tool used is pointless to worry about....the intent to kill is the only thing that really matters.
The most dangerous weapon is, and always has been, the human mind.
Good luck trying to control and regulate that!
Leave your penis out of this discussion, please...we are not impressed. ;-)
Wow, I would have been fooled by your UID...that's what I get for assuming!
Welcome to the Geritol Corner. We guard the the Hallway to the Elders (5 digit UID's), keeping the whippersnappers off the lawns.
But we are not old enough yet to tell them to "Turn that CRAP down!"
Where was I? Oh Yeah...I agree 100%
Everyone seems quick to complain when things go wrong, but too few people lavish praise when something is done right.
Allow me to attempt to correct this here....
Thank you, two thumbs up, and an "Atta boy/girl", for your display of courtesy and social responsibility.
That behavior and attitude seem to be less common lately.
Very reassuring and refreshing, indeed!
Hear! Hear!.....Bravo! (I just finished using all my mod points on the previous Fine Article)
While I find the sound level of the musical scores annoyingly too loud, I would rather hear that distraction, than to put up with being subjected to the inane conversations within earshot.
I guess I'm sub-consciously paranoid that stupidity is transmissible...*Hint: There is a valid reason why the President's speech writers have to write the speeches targeting an 8th grade educated audience in the USA...*
You might want to see a doctor about your Dysfuntional Humour Syndrome.
Who knows, you may even start getting invited to parties again!
A prime example of how current IP law and mentality have hindered usefulness and innovation of technology.
Hopefully this will serve as a wake-up call to much needed IP law reform.
*hurls iPhone at mugger instead of Batarang*
"Do'h"
*slinks away with cape between legs.....mugger shrugs and picks up phone*
mugger: "Cool!"
To be against government is one thing, but to literally tell our enemies what we do? DUMB!
Our enemies? The USA citizens are our enemy?
What country are you from that USA citizens are 'The Enemy'?
The only 'new' info that surfaced in this, was that all comm's were being monitored, instead of those that were connected to terrorism.
The fact that monitoring was taking place is not new, or news...it's been known for a few years.
Dumb! Indeed....
BTW, WTF does the NFL have to do with this?
(I too, can be obtuse!-)