Not to be off-topic from the story, but really.. just set your viewing threshold from -1 to 0. Comments that were flagged for abuse won't even show up. That is what/. did for all of us.
What's the phrase I'm looking for here?.......Like some performer that doesn't want her mansion photographed?
Just Google It... Now I've made both Google and Nike upset. Actually, I'm sure Google isn't one-bit upset that their trademark has been verbalized. Wasn't there a campaign from M$ with celebrities saying, "Just Bing it" ?
Either that or abolish the sales tax altogether in favor of the corporate or income tax.
I agree. Sales tax is dumb in a lot of ways. Abolishing it would make this so much easier. In the meantime, there are solutions to the problem of "how much sales tax do I collect and where do I send it?
Sales tax is dumb?? I'll tell you what's dumb... Income tax is dumb. Sales tax is meaningful and based upon consumption rates. Unfortunately, it hits lower-income people worse than higher-income. Taxing a person's income is taxing their existence. Taxing the profits they make by investing their income seems more fair. If you think we can't fund the government without income tax, look into CAFR at cafr1.com (look at Walter Burien's BIO, too). We've all been getting ripped-off by our government since before we were born.
So, if you think that there still needs to be an income tax, then, the top-earners' rate needs to go back to what it used to be (near 90%), and I don't see that happening anytime soon. Unfortunately, the top-earners' tax bracket has been lowered, substantially, since Nixon's and Reagan's terms, thus facilitating the situation we're in. Capital Gains Tax needs to be raised, but only for top-earners, too. The rules have been rewritten since the 70s to give the wealthy a major advantage.
Ask yourself how you'd tax someone using a barter system... One person wants to trade a chicken for a chair another person made. If the gov had its way, you'd have a three-legged chair and a dead chicken (also missing a leg) that can't lay eggs.
True, they won't stop anything if no one is there to post them.. better yet, when they're holding them up in an organized and peaceful demonstration of solidarity. Banners tell 'The Powers That Be' exactly how the crowd feels. A banner that censors Google's logo or Wikipedia's website probably has more effect because it's making people aware of issues within the USA when they're half a world away --quite possibly dealing with the very same issues in their country.
Software of this type has existed for a long time. It's commonly used for rig removal, but can be used to remove any object that is 'outlined' for removal. Next-and-last frame comparison is what 'batch clones-out' the outlined object. It's the same tech that Boujou used (vector analysis, per-pixel tracking via next-current-last frame comparison), but that app is/was used more for creating a virtual camera path for a 3D environment... Mokey was pretty good at this type of object removal, too (it's called Mocha, now - www.imagineersystems.com ). This type of software is pretty common and many companies make their own in-house if they have the need, I'd think. Remember how they removed Denzel Washington's character from the remake of The Manchurian Candidate? The real-time aspect is where we're going.. like The Running Man w Schwarzenegger. They used this type of tech in it, but in near real-time. That's scary.
That's what I was thinking about 'increased freedom' vs 'decreased freedom'... I can't really discern if this is a win for the average user, and I have to say that my gut tells me it's not.
So, in the end, should we just say, "Thank you, Google" ?
The US doesn't have a favourable stance on human rights either. Obama is cleared to bomb civilians in his own country without a trial. What is your point?
False, false, false. Seriously, I agree that Obama hasn't lived up to expectations, but really, you're statement is completely false. The US State Dept has continually advocated for human rights' issues in other countries and condemned the actions of dictators --even when we have starving children and a homeless explosion, here. Sure, the administration has a policy for killing Americans (and has) in other countries and even that's despicable. Extraordinary Rendition is despicable. Guantanamo Bay is despicable, too. But to say Obama is killing Americans on our own soil is just trolling. -1 to you, good sir.
But if you get fat, think of all the carbon you're storing!!! And you don't live as long as healthy people so you won't be watching TV forever.
Unfortunately, it doesn't work that way and fat people only need MORE calories to maintain their fat stores. Regarding that idiot politician's rationale taxing 'heavy breathers', he probably doesn't realize that fat people often have elevated heart rates and blood pressure, thus causing more-labored breathing than someone of normal size.
This is not DRM; it is product-life expiration. DRM would be if the chair had GPS and would melt itself if moved further than 200ft from its location of first use.
Actually, it's called 'planned obsolescence' and it's part of the design process related to almost any product manufactured nowadays. It's the same reason that blenders and sewing machines made in the 50s and 60s are still operational and coveted by some. Same with cars...the real money is made from selling parts, not the car, as a whole. And, it's also a pathetic practice, IMO. This practice is partly why we are burying ourselves in our refuse.
I'm done with "educating the masses". The masses don't want education. They are not hungry for wisdom, they're just greedy. They want everything and for free. Nothing else. And this isn't worth risking even more limitation to my freedoms, sorry.
I think you hit on it, rather indirectly, but nonetheless, you did. The public doesn't seek wisdom, but they seek knowledge (information). The same signs that signal to a bird that a tree's fruit is ripe are the same signals that tell a horny fella that women drink for free. Knowledge + experience = wisdom. The more one removes themselves from the ordinary, the more novelty and similarity they'll find. Hence, the wisdom is attained with age (assuming one engaged enough in life, aka, tried and got rejected vs sitting at the computer all night wishing) and finding that the women who continually frequent Ladies' Night are usually damaged in some way or another. But, aren't we all, in some way or another?
FUCK you content producers, I'm going to lobby the government that we should be taxing copyrighted content to subsidise the delivery system that the people have paid for,
I'm a content producer and well... FUCK you, too! It's been shown via many studies that people that share music also buy much more than those that don't share it. Hollywood has made, hand-over-fist, more money each year, even when they have strings of crappy releases. This isn't a war of the content producers, insomuch, vs the public; it's the content copyright HOLDERS waging this war convincing ISPs to serve as the judge and jury to questionable connections between one computer and another. Really, I could be sharing a legal torrent from archive.org with a person that's also torrenting a newly-released Hollywood movie. Both of us are encrypting all inbound and outbound traffic. Guilt by association? I don't know, but I have a feeling that if the EFF was arguing on my behalf, I'd win.
...then why is the story's icon the Firefox logo instead of Ubuntu's? Makes me think Unknown Lamer likes Mozilla Foundation more than Canonical. I do. In the end, the browser really could be the beginning and the end of the interface. Windows linked IE to the filesystem, albeit rather clumsily. I dislike how Apple tries to keep the filesystem of the iPhone (or iAnything) out of the consumer's reach. I keep thinking that the first company that puts a really nice mobile OS on a phone that has a microSD slot will reap many rewards of loyalty from a whole new fanbase. I've been waiting and waiting to escape inane pricing tiers for hardware that has a really meager amount to begin with. Really, you can't get much 1080 video on an iPhone5 with only 16GB (actually 14) of storage.
"Lethargic"? Try "unconstitutional" or "illegal", per the Sixth Amendment:
"In all criminal prosecutions, the accused shall enjoy the right to a speedy and public trial..."
Sorry bub, but he's in the military. The military isn't subject to constitutional (civilian) law, in respect to standard jurisprudence. Refer instead to the Uniform Code of Military Justice (UCMJ).
What I get scared about are police officers calling people, 'Civilians' --those cops are just as much a civilian as those they're sworn to protect, and just as protected by the Constitution and the Bill of Rights as the general public.
Especially when the job's wages they make don't come close to paying off their degree. Honestly, I don't think that a degree says much about a person. Everyone's story is different. I didn't finish my bachelor's degree because I didn't think they had anything useful to teach me --I taught the staff, students, and teachers at the university more about computers than they taught me anything about anything --other than a 4-year degree is a big waste of money. And, I still work at the university after 13 years there, doing quite well. And I have no degree, whatsoever. What the institution wants you to think is they will make you successful...in reality, you have to want to make yourself. No one can do it for you. While I'm sure that a degree backed from an Ivy-league will be beneficial, the true possibility of success is measured out with a person's internal desire to succeed, everyday.
That looks like it just heats and sculpts wax, rather than extruding it. Quite a different thing.
Exactly. You can see in this video how hair is built up by adding wax from a scratch lump to the head with a curved spike. There's no extruding wax device that I know of, but it would be cool to have if the aperture could change.
Regarding this ABS/PLA '3D Pen', I see a ton of plastic waste coming out of that device. I hope the owners of this project realize that and try to inform their customer base to try to recycle/reuse their plastic whenever possible. I love the Filabot that grinds up scrap plastic and makes new plastic filament for printing.
It's best to not feed the animals... And, rarely do I award AC mod points. Really, I could care less if it's an AC or a registered user making a comment, as I'm likely to ignore inane comments made by those that are logged in, too.
So as to stay on-topic, I ask, When did the government listen to anything the GAO had to say? Recently, that is... within the past 40 years --pre-Nixon era.
Without competition, there wouldn't even be a society. Or people. Competition predates homo sapiens by a billion years. So no, I'm not sure you can convince me that competition is bad.
You're right, but you're forgetting the other half of why society continues to 'work' --albeit somewhat half-assed. Cooperation is essential for society to move forward, and I'd have to say it's probably more important than competition. Traffic is a place where people need to be more cooperative than competitive, IMO.
and lack of water limits fracking in many parts of th world.
Thank goodness, I'd rather have clean water and walk a mile to get food than water with who-knows-what in it and gas in my car. You can't simply pump that crap waste water back into the earth and think that aquifers won't be affected, aka, the hole in the ground. Watch Gasland... I live near the Colorado epicenter of gas-drilling and we're, thankfully, creating harder restrictions to the practice than any other state. You can't make clean food with polluted air and poisoned water.
Yes, I've worked in IT for the better part of 20 years, too, and I can say that, even in the realm of education, the worst bureaucracy is HR. Plain and simple, they make hiring qualified personnel almost impossible. In the 'old days' before the HR department, new employees were interviewed by the department's supervisor that needed that person. Regarding managers, the ones that are truly effective, and reduce bureaucracy, are the ones that stand up for their employees and assist them with their duties rather than sabotaging their work/department. Those are the managers that deserve a corner office, IMO.
But corn is heavily subsidized, so it's fucking CHEAP. That's the metric we use. When I pull into the Shell station, I really don't give a shit how much energy it took to make my fuel. I just need to get to In-N-Out.
Which is why you posted AC, too, I presume. I do give a shit about my taxes being used in an unwise manner. I do care that putting food in my engine instead of my table is a wasteful practice. I do care that it's not energy efficient to do so, too. And, I do care that ethanol at 10% is bad enough to the rings on pre-1993 cars, but 20% is gonna destroy a lot of older engines. We were just talking about this in December...
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Not to be off-topic from the story, but really.. just set your viewing threshold from -1 to 0. Comments that were flagged for abuse won't even show up. That is what /. did for all of us.
What's the phrase I'm looking for here? .......Like some performer that doesn't want her mansion photographed?
Just Google It... Now I've made both Google and Nike upset. Actually, I'm sure Google isn't one-bit upset that their trademark has been verbalized. Wasn't there a campaign from M$ with celebrities saying, "Just Bing it" ?
I agree. Sales tax is dumb in a lot of ways. Abolishing it would make this so much easier. In the meantime, there are solutions to the problem of "how much sales tax do I collect and where do I send it?
Sales tax is dumb?? I'll tell you what's dumb... Income tax is dumb. Sales tax is meaningful and based upon consumption rates. Unfortunately, it hits lower-income people worse than higher-income. Taxing a person's income is taxing their existence. Taxing the profits they make by investing their income seems more fair. If you think we can't fund the government without income tax, look into CAFR at cafr1.com (look at Walter Burien's BIO, too). We've all been getting ripped-off by our government since before we were born.
So, if you think that there still needs to be an income tax, then, the top-earners' rate needs to go back to what it used to be (near 90%), and I don't see that happening anytime soon. Unfortunately, the top-earners' tax bracket has been lowered, substantially, since Nixon's and Reagan's terms, thus facilitating the situation we're in. Capital Gains Tax needs to be raised, but only for top-earners, too. The rules have been rewritten since the 70s to give the wealthy a major advantage.
Ask yourself how you'd tax someone using a barter system... One person wants to trade a chicken for a chair another person made. If the gov had its way, you'd have a three-legged chair and a dead chicken (also missing a leg) that can't lay eggs.
The producer/director mixed up the TOS environment and TNG uniforms. How can I to take them seriously with such a flagrant oversight?
will not stop Congress.
True, they won't stop anything if no one is there to post them.. better yet, when they're holding them up in an organized and peaceful demonstration of solidarity. Banners tell 'The Powers That Be' exactly how the crowd feels. A banner that censors Google's logo or Wikipedia's website probably has more effect because it's making people aware of issues within the USA when they're half a world away --quite possibly dealing with the very same issues in their country.
Class action suits over consumer electronics are basically a scam that benefits nobody but lawyers.
The class-action lawsuit over the iPod Nano netted me a shiny, new replacement, so I definitely benefited from the action.
Software of this type has existed for a long time. It's commonly used for rig removal, but can be used to remove any object that is 'outlined' for removal. Next-and-last frame comparison is what 'batch clones-out' the outlined object. It's the same tech that Boujou used (vector analysis, per-pixel tracking via next-current-last frame comparison), but that app is/was used more for creating a virtual camera path for a 3D environment... Mokey was pretty good at this type of object removal, too (it's called Mocha, now - www.imagineersystems.com ). This type of software is pretty common and many companies make their own in-house if they have the need, I'd think. Remember how they removed Denzel Washington's character from the remake of The Manchurian Candidate? The real-time aspect is where we're going.. like The Running Man w Schwarzenegger. They used this type of tech in it, but in near real-time. That's scary.
That's what I was thinking about 'increased freedom' vs 'decreased freedom'... I can't really discern if this is a win for the average user, and I have to say that my gut tells me it's not.
So, in the end, should we just say, "Thank you, Google" ?
The US doesn't have a favourable stance on human rights either. Obama is cleared to bomb civilians in his own country without a trial. What is your point?
False, false, false. Seriously, I agree that Obama hasn't lived up to expectations, but really, you're statement is completely false. The US State Dept has continually advocated for human rights' issues in other countries and condemned the actions of dictators --even when we have starving children and a homeless explosion, here. Sure, the administration has a policy for killing Americans (and has) in other countries and even that's despicable. Extraordinary Rendition is despicable. Guantanamo Bay is despicable, too. But to say Obama is killing Americans on our own soil is just trolling. -1 to you, good sir.
But if you get fat, think of all the carbon you're storing!!! And you don't live as long as healthy people so you won't be watching TV forever.
Unfortunately, it doesn't work that way and fat people only need MORE calories to maintain their fat stores. Regarding that idiot politician's rationale taxing 'heavy breathers', he probably doesn't realize that fat people often have elevated heart rates and blood pressure, thus causing more-labored breathing than someone of normal size.
This is not DRM; it is product-life expiration. DRM would be if the chair had GPS and would melt itself if moved further than 200ft from its location of first use.
Actually, it's called 'planned obsolescence' and it's part of the design process related to almost any product manufactured nowadays. It's the same reason that blenders and sewing machines made in the 50s and 60s are still operational and coveted by some. Same with cars...the real money is made from selling parts, not the car, as a whole. And, it's also a pathetic practice, IMO. This practice is partly why we are burying ourselves in our refuse.
Whomever was sitting on code.org since Sept. '99 now has a lot of cash to burn.
I'm done with "educating the masses". The masses don't want education. They are not hungry for wisdom, they're just greedy. They want everything and for free. Nothing else. And this isn't worth risking even more limitation to my freedoms, sorry.
I think you hit on it, rather indirectly, but nonetheless, you did. The public doesn't seek wisdom, but they seek knowledge (information). The same signs that signal to a bird that a tree's fruit is ripe are the same signals that tell a horny fella that women drink for free. Knowledge + experience = wisdom. The more one removes themselves from the ordinary, the more novelty and similarity they'll find. Hence, the wisdom is attained with age (assuming one engaged enough in life, aka, tried and got rejected vs sitting at the computer all night wishing) and finding that the women who continually frequent Ladies' Night are usually damaged in some way or another. But, aren't we all, in some way or another?
VPN is easy to use, we as information liberators need to educate the rest of the 85% on how to get around this.
The way /. has degenerated throughout the years, I'd say 85% is generous.
FUCK you content producers, I'm going to lobby the government that we should be taxing copyrighted content to subsidise the delivery system that the people have paid for,
I'm a content producer and well... FUCK you, too! It's been shown via many studies that people that share music also buy much more than those that don't share it. Hollywood has made, hand-over-fist, more money each year, even when they have strings of crappy releases. This isn't a war of the content producers, insomuch, vs the public; it's the content copyright HOLDERS waging this war convincing ISPs to serve as the judge and jury to questionable connections between one computer and another. Really, I could be sharing a legal torrent from archive.org with a person that's also torrenting a newly-released Hollywood movie. Both of us are encrypting all inbound and outbound traffic. Guilt by association? I don't know, but I have a feeling that if the EFF was arguing on my behalf, I'd win.
...then why is the story's icon the Firefox logo instead of Ubuntu's? Makes me think Unknown Lamer likes Mozilla Foundation more than Canonical. I do. In the end, the browser really could be the beginning and the end of the interface. Windows linked IE to the filesystem, albeit rather clumsily. I dislike how Apple tries to keep the filesystem of the iPhone (or iAnything) out of the consumer's reach. I keep thinking that the first company that puts a really nice mobile OS on a phone that has a microSD slot will reap many rewards of loyalty from a whole new fanbase. I've been waiting and waiting to escape inane pricing tiers for hardware that has a really meager amount to begin with. Really, you can't get much 1080 video on an iPhone5 with only 16GB (actually 14) of storage.
"Lethargic"? Try "unconstitutional" or "illegal", per the Sixth Amendment:
"In all criminal prosecutions, the accused shall enjoy the right to a speedy and public trial ..."
Sorry bub, but he's in the military. The military isn't subject to constitutional (civilian) law, in respect to standard jurisprudence. Refer instead to the Uniform Code of Military Justice (UCMJ).
What I get scared about are police officers calling people, 'Civilians' --those cops are just as much a civilian as those they're sworn to protect, and just as protected by the Constitution and the Bill of Rights as the general public.
Especially when the job's wages they make don't come close to paying off their degree. Honestly, I don't think that a degree says much about a person. Everyone's story is different. I didn't finish my bachelor's degree because I didn't think they had anything useful to teach me --I taught the staff, students, and teachers at the university more about computers than they taught me anything about anything --other than a 4-year degree is a big waste of money. And, I still work at the university after 13 years there, doing quite well. And I have no degree, whatsoever. What the institution wants you to think is they will make you successful...in reality, you have to want to make yourself. No one can do it for you. While I'm sure that a degree backed from an Ivy-league will be beneficial, the true possibility of success is measured out with a person's internal desire to succeed, everyday.
That looks like it just heats and sculpts wax, rather than extruding it. Quite a different thing.
Exactly. You can see in this video how hair is built up by adding wax from a scratch lump to the head with a curved spike. There's no extruding wax device that I know of, but it would be cool to have if the aperture could change.
Regarding this ABS/PLA '3D Pen', I see a ton of plastic waste coming out of that device. I hope the owners of this project realize that and try to inform their customer base to try to recycle/reuse their plastic whenever possible. I love the Filabot that grinds up scrap plastic and makes new plastic filament for printing.
It's best to not feed the animals... And, rarely do I award AC mod points. Really, I could care less if it's an AC or a registered user making a comment, as I'm likely to ignore inane comments made by those that are logged in, too. So as to stay on-topic, I ask, When did the government listen to anything the GAO had to say? Recently, that is... within the past 40 years --pre-Nixon era.
Without competition, there wouldn't even be a society. Or people. Competition predates homo sapiens by a billion years. So no, I'm not sure you can convince me that competition is bad.
You're right, but you're forgetting the other half of why society continues to 'work' --albeit somewhat half-assed. Cooperation is essential for society to move forward, and I'd have to say it's probably more important than competition. Traffic is a place where people need to be more cooperative than competitive, IMO.
and lack of water limits fracking in many parts of th world.
Thank goodness, I'd rather have clean water and walk a mile to get food than water with who-knows-what in it and gas in my car. You can't simply pump that crap waste water back into the earth and think that aquifers won't be affected, aka, the hole in the ground. Watch Gasland... I live near the Colorado epicenter of gas-drilling and we're, thankfully, creating harder restrictions to the practice than any other state. You can't make clean food with polluted air and poisoned water.
I've a philosophy-based faith rather than a faith-based philosophy... it's been suiting me quite well.
Yes, I've worked in IT for the better part of 20 years, too, and I can say that, even in the realm of education, the worst bureaucracy is HR. Plain and simple, they make hiring qualified personnel almost impossible. In the 'old days' before the HR department, new employees were interviewed by the department's supervisor that needed that person. Regarding managers, the ones that are truly effective, and reduce bureaucracy, are the ones that stand up for their employees and assist them with their duties rather than sabotaging their work/department. Those are the managers that deserve a corner office, IMO.
But corn is heavily subsidized, so it's fucking CHEAP. That's the metric we use. When I pull into the Shell station, I really don't give a shit how much energy it took to make my fuel. I just need to get to In-N-Out.
Which is why you posted AC, too, I presume. I do give a shit about my taxes being used in an unwise manner. I do care that putting food in my engine instead of my table is a wasteful practice. I do care that it's not energy efficient to do so, too. And, I do care that ethanol at 10% is bad enough to the rings on pre-1993 cars, but 20% is gonna destroy a lot of older engines. We were just talking about this in December...