Essentially it belongs to no one. To be really old school slashdotty, if you have knowledge and share it with me, you still have the knowledge.
Given these guys' tenure, they likely have a decent retirement set up to fall back on. I wouldn't train Someone to kill my job, though everyone has their price. A weeks pay for every year of my tenure? No. A couple of years' pay? I'd be a fool not to. Employers have had employees over a barrel for some time now. 20 years ago, everyone got a raise in the company, just because. Not because of any laws or anything. How many places do you think do that today? Hell, we don't even get the chocolate sampler anymore,(Those were actually quite good.) They even got rid of employee of the month in a facility with a few hundred employees. It's real hard to feel sorry for employers who are at a disadvantage in things that they think will make more money.
And there is stuff that is not paid to learn stuff. "That router in this part of the building usually needs to be power cycled every month, but otherwise it's solid." "John Corproratate Director brings in infected usb's every once in a while, keep an eye on his traffic and gently warn him."
There really is a lot you can't do. Consider, the whole IPhone flap wasn't geared to really stop anything, just find out what happened. You think if there was any serious plans on that phone that they wouldn't have changed the moment any supposed co-conspirators caught wind that the FBI was going to crack the phone? You might catch some people, but they likely would just be running.
With that,I'm for doing something if its realistic, perhaps minimal media exposure, and just plain sucking it up. If its not an effective tactic, then it will be used less. And weeks long exposes only give the killers what they ultimately want: attention.
I do however,think there is absolutely the responsibility to tell them what they cannot do. I say that they should not have the keys to the kingdom, because eventually copies of those keys will get out. Someone will eventually pick the lock anyway. There will be future attacks I'm sure. I don't want there to be any, but I'm about as hopeful that no one will slip in the tub and die ever again.If the fbi has open access to encryption, bad guys will just use other means, and then everyone's data is at risk.
No, you are not already paying for that stuff. Your IT Dept. recommends to procurement what to buy, and you kind of glossed over the cost of a server and the associated costs. Not to mention who pays for it.
I already addressed the scale of the company, and in spite of what you can do, IT still has to learn how to do it,(maybe,) and maintain the server which costs power, parts usage, and possible overtime.
Although I don't work in IT, I serve internal customers, and we try to give them what we can. New equipment costs money, however, and new equipment like air conditioners, printers, floor space, and yes, software and hardware all cost money. These are all things that sales and other departments sometimes need. And no, just cause you already budgeted for a department doesn't mean that that budget shouldn't change.
This is just me talking to myself anyway. Cheers.
Of course, that would require IT to buy, install, administer these simple tools, maybe take the time to learn how to use tools, which is not free, and for the requesting department to fund all of it, and we all know that is asking too much.
That last part about funding is the sticking point. Sure, there is some stretch room for manpower, but it all costs money. Everyone has to justify their budget, from marketing, to sales, to IT, to software engineering, to industrial hardware support, to archiving, to facilities maintenance, to HR, to legal, and to probably other things that I am likely forgetting.
As a caveat to those who talk about IT being a cost and sales bringing in the money, I am not in IT. For any company to be even moderately successful, you must be a team. Get rid of any relevant department to your company above, and it will fail. No toilets? No PBX system? No intranet? No Internet? No Email? Your PC not functioning? No heating/air conditioning? No copier/printer? Signing contracts without legal advice? And on and on?
You are fucked.
Granted this is not as important at 5 employees. Think about 500 employees,or 5000.
And I have a slight problem with sales in any company over about 50 people or so. They will gladly srew over the customer and 70% of their workforce for their own benefit.
Grandparent gets an F and parent gets a D-. The earth, sun and moon don't weigh anything, unless they are sitting on a scale. They do, however, have mass. Submitter gets a basic B because he was trying to relate the actual differences in an understandable way.
Ten years ago, you would have had a point. Today, not so much. I built a new gaming pc about six months ago, before that I built a gaming pc about 3.5 years previous to that. To expound on that, I built a pc 3.5 years ago that I never upgraded. I went from ddr1 to ddr3 and dual core to more highly advanced quad core, along with a single gpu card to a dual gpu card. Did it cost more money? Undoubtedly.Was it worth it? Undoubtably. I just quit falling for the benchmark trap, and still enjoyed higher qualty gaming.
I think you are kind of misunderstanding, or at least understating what the term "order of magnitude" means. Just one order of magnitude means that my bought used for a cheap price fully paid off truck I can't afford to replace and has benn fully paid off for 7 gets 160 miles per gallon. Just one order of magnitude means that my play money per month,(Such as buying a DVD or two every month, going to eat at a reasonably priced sit down meal once or twice a month, buying a new PC/console,(I only bought the console because I got it for 25% off from someone who won it at work,) game once every few months, a new computer costing around $1000 dollars every 2.5-3 years, and add in some other things like the occasional candybar or book/magazine,) would be about $1500 per month.
The military's federal budget is 481 billion dollars. The total 2008 federal budget is 2.9 TRILLION dollars. NASA's budget for 2008 is 17.6 billion dollars, give or take a few.x billion dollars. It's a drop in the bucket, or at best a few spoonfulls. If their budget was tripled,(not saying it should be necessarily,) I doubt few folks would notice much. By the same token if NASA was completely eliminated, almost no one would notice the difference, if at all, since anything not spent on NASA would be disbursed elsewhere, not simply cut.
NASA is kind of like a change jar that gives interest. A few cents is thrown at it every year and then you cash in and get an almost unexpected windfall.
I have a gaming PC and a PS3. My 37" HDTV makes for a fine monitor for both. Key mapping takes about five minutes to do, it takes just as long to get used to in a new game as presets, and my PC has a usable mouse/keyboard function in almost every game. Those things make a good shooter game for me. Being forced to play all thumbs does not make a good shooter game for me. I'd love it if Sony came out with a true dual joystick like they had for the PS1. And don't get me wrong, I love my PS3, but I will never likely by a shooter game for it merely because of control limitations. I can say I can't argue much with the smooth factor though.
Mouse and keyboard could be on consoles though. I don't think its happened much not because there is a lack of demand for it, but because many console players don't want others to have it.
Yes, you do. Do you buy a box of cereal and eat one bowl? Do you buy a carton of milk and drink one glass? Do you buy toilet paper and wipe just once?.............. No
NASA's budget shouldn't be cut, it should be increased. Some call it a waste of money, I say it is a drop in the bucket compared to entitlements and military spending.
While I wouldn't consider Gizmodo to be major journalists, they definitely aren't just bloggers. They shot themselves in the gut and while they may recover, they will never be what they were. They deserve what they earned, however.
Until not very long ago, that would be a stupid question, due to higher paid technicians needing to look professional, per mangement and the rates of pay they were receiving. Not to mention that the bigwigs might be looking at a new piece of machinery, and may get caught up in it. Emergency stop safety is all about what could possibly happen, not what is likely to happen.
It is better a tech has to scatch his head for awhile than someone get scalped, lose digits, or, at worst, limb and life. True, it can be more of a pain in the ass to diagnose, but I'll take that pain in the ass over someone losing parts of their anatomy.
Normally closed e-stops or interlocks mean that when they fail, the machine stops and no one gets hurt, most of the time, because those lines are generaly low current, and when they fail, they most often fail safely, because when they fail, it is because they stop conducting electricity.
Although it happens the other way, it is extremely rare. The currents and voltages involved don't work to fuse connections, and the mechanical structures of said switches rarely work to remain closed.
Lastly, many operations don't restrict clothing items just because the don't think of them or they think that curent regulations,(like covers on the machine) are enough.
But shit happens, regardless of all the many redundancies built into machinery, that's why OSHA along with company regulations are required to be followed.
This looks like a cool machine. I wish I could get a more reasonable priced one though. I'd kill for a dayplanner sized laptop, but $4000 us is too much. I don't even care if it doesn't have an integrated cd/dvd drive, but a tiny comp would be great for email/reference/basic web browsing for internet searches. Kind of like a pda on superstrength steroids. I don't need a tiny laptop for truly intense application like gaming or compiling a kernel. The solid state drive would only sweeten the deal.
Alas, tiny laptops are always too expensive.
You are oversimplifying what Pa is saying. He is asking if the premise of the article is a way a culture can commit suicide, not if the article itself is a way to commit cultural suicide. I saw no mention of the Mayan culture.
I see a least common denominator forming:"'A guy went to work...', Objection your honor! My client wrote a story that started the same way, even if he said it a little differently than that! It is still the same thing and he owes us money because his work derived from ours!"
Should Snow White and The Hunchback of Notre Dame be relegated to Disney, because they made some money on it? How about Dracula and Frankenstein, who gets the copyright for those. Who gets the copyright for Shakespear's (sp?) works, and any of its derivatives. Who get's residuals on 'Why did the chicken cross the road?' jokes?
I know I'm chewing on trollbait here, but ffs, if your work is that good the money you make off of it should easily trickle down the generations, unless one of them blows it. Just like if I work hard and save and invest, my financial legacy will continue until one of my progeny blows it.
But if I work really hard and do a really good job for the next two years, that should not guarantee that my bloodline or their designated beneficiaries should always get paid a regular income for time immemorial.
I'm all for a temporary monopoly on legitimate works, but that monopoly should be temporary. I won't argue the length too much, but if I was a child when a work was created, and I die an old man before it is in the public domain, that is effectively infinite, not temporary.
They are already easy to aquire, crimes utilizing them notwithstanding. (sp?) Very straightforward reasoning, unless you missed the first part about not having a criminal record, state law supporting you, the cash to afford such a weapon, and willingness to submit to possible ATF inspection if you possess them.
Like I said, look up "Class III weapon requirements". This is nothing new under the sun. We are not 'making' anything new happen. It has been this way for decades.
I was born around 10 years after Kennedy's death. I've heard the theories. It was the Mafia. It was the CIA. It was LBJ. It was the military industrial complex. It was a nut named Oswald. It was the Russians. It was the combination of any or all of the above.
I'm curious because it became a pivotal point in history. I understand that the government may not want to reveal some security precautions for its head of state, even though it is obvious that they would be changed after an event like this. I don't want to know what they are now.
I do not, however, understand why pertinent details need to be classified for several generations, and I fear that when they are declassified, they will consist of pages of ancient photocopies obscured by black marker. I would like to know what happened, but I accept that I likely never will, because my collective servant will probably have some reason not to tell me.
That's exactly the way it is in many states today, provided you have no criminal record, and the money to buy the weapon. Its mostly like any non-automatic weapon. Look up "class III weapons permit requirements". The only extra hoops you have to jump through are pure paperwork, (legally undeniable in most places that allow it, but you might have LE tell you to go to court for challenge purely because they don't like you)and,(I think), inspection on demand by the ATF.
Then, go look up how many of those weapons are used in crimes. Is that logic solid enough for you? Witness the horror of nonexistant crime.
If this were monetarily feasible, why wouldn't they do it anyway? I'm not sure how Google's servers are distributed now, but I'm pretty sure you can pay to colocate a server(sp?). After spreading out their servers, then they would be able to cut the cost to connect whatever serves as a master database/webcrawler server because it would be seeing much less traffic.
Now, what's the difference between what you said required legislation and what I just stated above? Or, pehaps because this issue seems clouded to me as to why it should change, could you explain better why legislation should not keep things as they are? I have serious doubts that the major players looking for these changes would embrace a decrease in costs. In fact, you stated that major players, such as search engine/email sites and streaming video sites, would be able to make more money because of decreased bandwidth costs, and backbone providers would be able to provide a higher quality service.
Hmm. Higher quality of service with the aggregate smaller cost to the hugely visted webstuff/retailers/etc. Tell me do you think that the backbone providers are lobbying for a loss in revenue? The consumers will pay more. It looks to me like some big folks want the internet morphed into interactive TV.(Would you like to learn more?)
Now for the fun part, as I am a closet conspiracy theorist. Where does the porn industry figure in? A driver of new technology, and a considerbly wealthy fighter, how will they chime in? This could seriously hurt them, as global level bandwidth goes up in price for them and their customers, since some states will likely illegalize having such servers in their state. They have to offer some resistance and,(at least in the USA,) when/porn company/ speaks out they will be vilified by the antiporn orgs.
When you face proposed changes in your area, be it your neighborhood, city, county state, or planet, follow the money and the motivation of the major players involved. What bothers me the most is that no one who supports your position has stated the real potential of abuse. What is to stop companies from blocking things like unpopular news coverage/philosophy/porn/(any objectional topic) because it would hurt confidence from stockholders?
"We gave them that law, so we know they can block this, and showing a woman's ankles is an outrage!"
If they think they are not making enough money, they should look at their price structure. If someone uses too much bandwidth, mark limits, and charge accordingly; companies should not be able to provide a service that is labeled unlimited when it is not. They already make money off of me, why should I support legislation likely to take money out of my pocket and put it into theirs, while at the the same time making things more byzantine than ever? While the 'tubes' analogy was ridiculous, I bet it was a botched translation to politicalspeak for the Senator. I don't pay for a tube, but a pipe, and its fatter than it used to be. Funny how my pipe went from 256Kbps to 7 Mbps with only modest increases in price, like $10 us more. This was over weird steps, and not linked to speed, when I went to 256kbps up/640kbps down to 1mbps up/7mbps down, there was no price change.
Enough ranting. Net neutrality should mean striving to keep things at status quo, or nearly so, not opening up flash in the pan moneymaking opportunities that or godd for sucking blood long term.
Sure it is possible, just send up some guns. Now if you can hold it, that is another matter.
That is what scares me about the Chinese wanting to establish a permanent base on the moon. They,(or us for that matter) could drop rocks with some atmosphere shielding and get, in effect, clean tacnuke type bombardment weapons. Yes the position of the Earth and Moon would limit operation windows, but this could make a nice blitzkrieg beginning for an attack.
Yeah, it is a bit paranoid, but I haven't been digging my bunker yet, and I know no one can just whip up a celestial satellite bombardment system like a chicken Kiev recipe. But who knows, maybe when I can purportedly start cashing Social Security checks, things might be different. I'm also split, as a moon based ground assist launch mediums may well be one of several keys allowing enabling extraterestrial settlement and exploitation.
This is looking to be a worthy succesor to the Elite series, though you can't land on planets.
Ship customization, a storyline thrown in, good space combat, and trading/smuggling. No multiplayer, but I can deal with that. From what I played of the demo, I'm more excited about an upcoming game than I have been for a long time.
I don't think it is all that silly. The classic limiting of the First Amendment is that it does not allow you to yell "FIRE!!!" in a crowded movie theater. This seems a little like the opposite, where there really is a fire in the movie theater and their lawyers sued you because you didn't keep your mouth shut.
True, this is an analogy that may not fit, but if it comes down to one group being able to continue to make money at the expense of many other groups due to sheer negligence,(Gee, hope nobody finds out!) then they should be called to task.
To me, this sounds like someone reinterpreting the First Amendment to whatever the hell they don't want at all times.
OT as well, but the way a heat pipe works is that it contains a liquid close to phase change. Next to the hot thing,(cpu, HD, whatever,) the liquid boils into a gas. As it rises in the pipe it condenses on the pipe and falls back down, creating a flow of heat away from the source even more efficient than a straight heatsink could. Recently I bought a retail Athlon 64 x2 4400+ and was quite surprised to see that it came with a heatpipe type heatsink stock.
While I can agree with your second point your first one is not quite accurate. While its not a stick, there is an analog control device on my PSP; its more like an analog pad. Its on the left side directly below the d-pad.
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Essentially it belongs to no one. To be really old school slashdotty, if you have knowledge and share it with me, you still have the knowledge. Given these guys' tenure, they likely have a decent retirement set up to fall back on. I wouldn't train Someone to kill my job, though everyone has their price. A weeks pay for every year of my tenure? No. A couple of years' pay? I'd be a fool not to. Employers have had employees over a barrel for some time now. 20 years ago, everyone got a raise in the company, just because. Not because of any laws or anything. How many places do you think do that today? Hell, we don't even get the chocolate sampler anymore,(Those were actually quite good.) They even got rid of employee of the month in a facility with a few hundred employees. It's real hard to feel sorry for employers who are at a disadvantage in things that they think will make more money. And there is stuff that is not paid to learn stuff. "That router in this part of the building usually needs to be power cycled every month, but otherwise it's solid." "John Corproratate Director brings in infected usb's every once in a while, keep an eye on his traffic and gently warn him."
How is that different from the status quo?
There really is a lot you can't do. Consider, the whole IPhone flap wasn't geared to really stop anything, just find out what happened. You think if there was any serious plans on that phone that they wouldn't have changed the moment any supposed co-conspirators caught wind that the FBI was going to crack the phone? You might catch some people, but they likely would just be running. With that,I'm for doing something if its realistic, perhaps minimal media exposure, and just plain sucking it up. If its not an effective tactic, then it will be used less. And weeks long exposes only give the killers what they ultimately want: attention. I do however,think there is absolutely the responsibility to tell them what they cannot do. I say that they should not have the keys to the kingdom, because eventually copies of those keys will get out. Someone will eventually pick the lock anyway. There will be future attacks I'm sure. I don't want there to be any, but I'm about as hopeful that no one will slip in the tub and die ever again.If the fbi has open access to encryption, bad guys will just use other means, and then everyone's data is at risk.
No, you are not already paying for that stuff. Your IT Dept. recommends to procurement what to buy, and you kind of glossed over the cost of a server and the associated costs. Not to mention who pays for it. I already addressed the scale of the company, and in spite of what you can do, IT still has to learn how to do it,(maybe,) and maintain the server which costs power, parts usage, and possible overtime. Although I don't work in IT, I serve internal customers, and we try to give them what we can. New equipment costs money, however, and new equipment like air conditioners, printers, floor space, and yes, software and hardware all cost money. These are all things that sales and other departments sometimes need. And no, just cause you already budgeted for a department doesn't mean that that budget shouldn't change. This is just me talking to myself anyway. Cheers.
No, you didn't take that far enough.
Of course, that would require IT to buy, install, administer these simple tools, maybe take the time to learn how to use tools, which is not free, and for the requesting department to fund all of it, and we all know that is asking too much.
That last part about funding is the sticking point. Sure, there is some stretch room for manpower, but it all costs money. Everyone has to justify their budget, from marketing, to sales, to IT, to software engineering, to industrial hardware support, to archiving, to facilities maintenance, to HR, to legal, and to probably other things that I am likely forgetting.
As a caveat to those who talk about IT being a cost and sales bringing in the money, I am not in IT. For any company to be even moderately successful, you must be a team. Get rid of any relevant department to your company above, and it will fail. No toilets? No PBX system? No intranet? No Internet? No Email? Your PC not functioning? No heating/air conditioning? No copier/printer? Signing contracts without legal advice? And on and on?
You are fucked.
Granted this is not as important at 5 employees. Think about 500 employees,or 5000.
And I have a slight problem with sales in any company over about 50 people or so. They will gladly srew over the customer and 70% of their workforce for their own benefit.
Grandparent gets an F and parent gets a D-. The earth, sun and moon don't weigh anything, unless they are sitting on a scale. They do, however, have mass. Submitter gets a basic B because he was trying to relate the actual differences in an understandable way.
Ten years ago, you would have had a point. Today, not so much. I built a new gaming pc about six months ago, before that I built a gaming pc about 3.5 years previous to that. To expound on that, I built a pc 3.5 years ago that I never upgraded. I went from ddr1 to ddr3 and dual core to more highly advanced quad core, along with a single gpu card to a dual gpu card. Did it cost more money? Undoubtedly.Was it worth it? Undoubtably. I just quit falling for the benchmark trap, and still enjoyed higher qualty gaming.
I think you are kind of misunderstanding, or at least understating what the term "order of magnitude" means. Just one order of magnitude means that my bought used for a cheap price fully paid off truck I can't afford to replace and has benn fully paid off for 7 gets 160 miles per gallon. Just one order of magnitude means that my play money per month,(Such as buying a DVD or two every month, going to eat at a reasonably priced sit down meal once or twice a month, buying a new PC/console,(I only bought the console because I got it for 25% off from someone who won it at work,) game once every few months, a new computer costing around $1000 dollars every 2.5-3 years, and add in some other things like the occasional candybar or book/magazine,) would be about $1500 per month. The military's federal budget is 481 billion dollars. The total 2008 federal budget is 2.9 TRILLION dollars. NASA's budget for 2008 is 17.6 billion dollars, give or take a few .x billion dollars. It's a drop in the bucket, or at best a few spoonfulls. If their budget was tripled,(not saying it should be necessarily,) I doubt few folks would notice much. By the same token if NASA was completely eliminated, almost no one would notice the difference, if at all, since anything not spent on NASA would be disbursed elsewhere, not simply cut.
NASA is kind of like a change jar that gives interest. A few cents is thrown at it every year and then you cash in and get an almost unexpected windfall.
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I have a gaming PC and a PS3. My 37" HDTV makes for a fine monitor for both. Key mapping takes about five minutes to do, it takes just as long to get used to in a new game as presets, and my PC has a usable mouse/keyboard function in almost every game. Those things make a good shooter game for me. Being forced to play all thumbs does not make a good shooter game for me. I'd love it if Sony came out with a true dual joystick like they had for the PS1. And don't get me wrong, I love my PS3, but I will never likely by a shooter game for it merely because of control limitations. I can say I can't argue much with the smooth factor though.
Mouse and keyboard could be on consoles though. I don't think its happened much not because there is a lack of demand for it, but because many console players don't want others to have it.
Yes, you do. Do you buy a box of cereal and eat one bowl? Do you buy a carton of milk and drink one glass? Do you buy toilet paper and wipe just once?.............. No
NASA's budget shouldn't be cut, it should be increased. Some call it a waste of money, I say it is a drop in the bucket compared to entitlements and military spending.
While I wouldn't consider Gizmodo to be major journalists, they definitely aren't just bloggers. They shot themselves in the gut and while they may recover, they will never be what they were. They deserve what they earned, however.
Until not very long ago, that would be a stupid question, due to higher paid technicians needing to look professional, per mangement and the rates of pay they were receiving. Not to mention that the bigwigs might be looking at a new piece of machinery, and may get caught up in it. Emergency stop safety is all about what could possibly happen, not what is likely to happen. It is better a tech has to scatch his head for awhile than someone get scalped, lose digits, or, at worst, limb and life. True, it can be more of a pain in the ass to diagnose, but I'll take that pain in the ass over someone losing parts of their anatomy. Normally closed e-stops or interlocks mean that when they fail, the machine stops and no one gets hurt, most of the time, because those lines are generaly low current, and when they fail, they most often fail safely, because when they fail, it is because they stop conducting electricity. Although it happens the other way, it is extremely rare. The currents and voltages involved don't work to fuse connections, and the mechanical structures of said switches rarely work to remain closed. Lastly, many operations don't restrict clothing items just because the don't think of them or they think that curent regulations,(like covers on the machine) are enough. But shit happens, regardless of all the many redundancies built into machinery, that's why OSHA along with company regulations are required to be followed.
This looks like a cool machine. I wish I could get a more reasonable priced one though. I'd kill for a dayplanner sized laptop, but $4000 us is too much. I don't even care if it doesn't have an integrated cd/dvd drive, but a tiny comp would be great for email/reference/basic web browsing for internet searches. Kind of like a pda on superstrength steroids. I don't need a tiny laptop for truly intense application like gaming or compiling a kernel. The solid state drive would only sweeten the deal. Alas, tiny laptops are always too expensive.
You are oversimplifying what Pa is saying. He is asking if the premise of the article is a way a culture can commit suicide, not if the article itself is a way to commit cultural suicide. I saw no mention of the Mayan culture.
I see a least common denominator forming:"'A guy went to work...', Objection your honor! My client wrote a story that started the same way, even if he said it a little differently than that! It is still the same thing and he owes us money because his work derived from ours!"
Cripes, get a grip
With all due respect.
Horseshit.
Should Snow White and The Hunchback of Notre Dame be relegated to Disney, because they made some money on it? How about Dracula and Frankenstein, who gets the copyright for those. Who gets the copyright for Shakespear's (sp?) works, and any of its derivatives. Who get's residuals on 'Why did the chicken cross the road?' jokes?
I know I'm chewing on trollbait here, but ffs, if your work is that good the money you make off of it should easily trickle down the generations, unless one of them blows it. Just like if I work hard and save and invest, my financial legacy will continue until one of my progeny blows it.
But if I work really hard and do a really good job for the next two years, that should not guarantee that my bloodline or their designated beneficiaries should always get paid a regular income for time immemorial.
I'm all for a temporary monopoly on legitimate works, but that monopoly should be temporary. I won't argue the length too much, but if I was a child when a work was created, and I die an old man before it is in the public domain, that is effectively infinite, not temporary.
They are already easy to aquire, crimes utilizing them notwithstanding. (sp?) Very straightforward reasoning, unless you missed the first part about not having a criminal record, state law supporting you, the cash to afford such a weapon, and willingness to submit to possible ATF inspection if you possess them.
Like I said, look up "Class III weapon requirements". This is nothing new under the sun. We are not 'making' anything new happen. It has been this way for decades.
I was born around 10 years after Kennedy's death. I've heard the theories. It was the Mafia. It was the CIA. It was LBJ. It was the military industrial complex. It was a nut named Oswald. It was the Russians. It was the combination of any or all of the above.
I'm curious because it became a pivotal point in history. I understand that the government may not want to reveal some security precautions for its head of state, even though it is obvious that they would be changed after an event like this. I don't want to know what they are now.
I do not, however, understand why pertinent details need to be classified for several generations, and I fear that when they are declassified, they will consist of pages of ancient photocopies obscured by black marker. I would like to know what happened, but I accept that I likely never will, because my collective servant will probably have some reason not to tell me.
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That's exactly the way it is in many states today, provided you have no criminal record, and the money to buy the weapon. Its mostly like any non-automatic weapon. Look up "class III weapons permit requirements". The only extra hoops you have to jump through are pure paperwork, (legally undeniable in most places that allow it, but you might have LE tell you to go to court for challenge purely because they don't like you)and,(I think), inspection on demand by the ATF. Then, go look up how many of those weapons are used in crimes. Is that logic solid enough for you? Witness the horror of nonexistant crime.
If this were monetarily feasible, why wouldn't they do it anyway? I'm not sure how Google's servers are distributed now, but I'm pretty sure you can pay to colocate a server(sp?). After spreading out their servers, then they would be able to cut the cost to connect whatever serves as a master database/webcrawler server because it would be seeing much less traffic.
/porn company/ speaks out they will be vilified by the antiporn orgs.
Now, what's the difference between what you said required legislation and what I just stated above? Or, pehaps because this issue seems clouded to me as to why it should change, could you explain better why legislation should not keep things as they are? I have serious doubts that the major players looking for these changes would embrace a decrease in costs. In fact, you stated that major players, such as search engine/email sites and streaming video sites, would be able to make more money because of decreased bandwidth costs, and backbone providers would be able to provide a higher quality service.
Hmm. Higher quality of service with the aggregate smaller cost to the hugely visted webstuff/retailers/etc. Tell me do you think that the backbone providers are lobbying for a loss in revenue? The consumers will pay more. It looks to me like some big folks want the internet morphed into interactive TV.(Would you like to learn more?)
Now for the fun part, as I am a closet conspiracy theorist. Where does the porn industry figure in? A driver of new technology, and a considerbly wealthy fighter, how will they chime in? This could seriously hurt them, as global level bandwidth goes up in price for them and their customers, since some states will likely illegalize having such servers in their state. They have to offer some resistance and,(at least in the USA,) when
When you face proposed changes in your area, be it your neighborhood, city, county state, or planet, follow the money and the motivation of the major players involved. What bothers me the most is that no one who supports your position has stated the real potential of abuse. What is to stop companies from blocking things like unpopular news coverage/philosophy/porn/(any objectional topic) because it would hurt confidence from stockholders?
"We gave them that law, so we know they can block this, and showing a woman's ankles is an outrage!"
If they think they are not making enough money, they should look at their price structure. If someone uses too much bandwidth, mark limits, and charge accordingly; companies should not be able to provide a service that is labeled unlimited when it is not. They already make money off of me, why should I support legislation likely to take money out of my pocket and put it into theirs, while at the the same time making things more byzantine than ever? While the 'tubes' analogy was ridiculous, I bet it was a botched translation to politicalspeak for the Senator. I don't pay for a tube, but a pipe, and its fatter than it used to be. Funny how my pipe went from 256Kbps to 7 Mbps with only modest increases in price, like $10 us more. This was over weird steps, and not linked to speed, when I went to 256kbps up/640kbps down to 1mbps up/7mbps down, there was no price change.
Enough ranting. Net neutrality should mean striving to keep things at status quo, or nearly so, not opening up flash in the pan moneymaking opportunities that or godd for sucking blood long term.
Sure it is possible, just send up some guns. Now if you can hold it, that is another matter.
That is what scares me about the Chinese wanting to establish a permanent base on the moon. They,(or us for that matter) could drop rocks with some atmosphere shielding and get, in effect, clean tacnuke type bombardment weapons. Yes the position of the Earth and Moon would limit operation windows, but this could make a nice blitzkrieg beginning for an attack.
Yeah, it is a bit paranoid, but I haven't been digging my bunker yet, and I know no one can just whip up a celestial satellite bombardment system like a chicken Kiev recipe. But who knows, maybe when I can purportedly start cashing Social Security checks, things might be different. I'm also split, as a moon based ground assist launch mediums may well be one of several keys allowing enabling extraterestrial settlement and exploitation.
This is looking to be a worthy succesor to the Elite series, though you can't land on planets.
Ship customization, a storyline thrown in, good space combat, and trading/smuggling. No multiplayer, but I can deal with that. From what I played of the demo, I'm more excited about an upcoming game than I have been for a long time.
I don't think it is all that silly. The classic limiting of the First Amendment is that it does not allow you to yell "FIRE!!!" in a crowded movie theater. This seems a little like the opposite, where there really is a fire in the movie theater and their lawyers sued you because you didn't keep your mouth shut.
True, this is an analogy that may not fit, but if it comes down to one group being able to continue to make money at the expense of many other groups due to sheer negligence,(Gee, hope nobody finds out!) then they should be called to task.
To me, this sounds like someone reinterpreting the First Amendment to whatever the hell they don't want at all times.
OT as well, but the way a heat pipe works is that it contains a liquid close to phase change. Next to the hot thing,(cpu, HD, whatever,) the liquid boils into a gas. As it rises in the pipe it condenses on the pipe and falls back down, creating a flow of heat away from the source even more efficient than a straight heatsink could. Recently I bought a retail Athlon 64 x2 4400+ and was quite surprised to see that it came with a heatpipe type heatsink stock.
While I can agree with your second point your first one is not quite accurate. While its not a stick, there is an analog control device on my PSP; its more like an analog pad. Its on the left side directly below the d-pad.