Honestly, you're very unlikely to experience this sort of harassment entering the US. However, I do agree with you and hate the way my country has gone since 9/11. I wish my fellow countrymen and women were more difficult to control with fear, and that the politicians were less willing to use it.
At least we seem to be stumbling, slowly, in the right direction lately.
Not sure what the situation is now, but during the summer of 2002, just about 9 months after "9/11", a friend and I sailed from Kauai to San Francisco. We saw basically no one out at sea, and could have met up with anyone carrying whatever sort of munitions. When we arrived in SF, we sailed/motored to his dock, tied up, were picked up by his wife and went home. No customs agents, no TSA, no nothing. If a nuke were available, I've got no doubt that terrorists would have no trouble killing millions.
I've got a Sony MD/CD player that will 'high speed' copy from the CD to the MiniDisc. It didn't have optical out to get the audio off my old MDs (mostly copies of my old Vinyl), so I hard-hacked it to add one. I never had one of the NetMD versions. Don't think I would have gotten one of the MDs at all due to the DRM if they started with that crap. One of these days I'll finish copying the MD's to my laptop and eBay the MD/CD box (and the portable MD player/recorder). They were nice tech for the time, but technology long since passed them by.
Yeah, that phrase "hasn't evolved in X years" has always bothered me. Of course they've evolved, their genes are subject to the same changes due to random mutation as everyone else's. It's just that the selection pressures on them have kept them largely the same (morphologically speaking) as far as we can tell from fossils.
You haven't _needed_ a PC/Mac for an iOS device for awhile now... Of course instead you'd have to buy into Apple's iCloud and let them manage all your data (and sell it to you in the first place).
My girlfriend opened up a small retail store. Not that many items, it's an interior design shop and there are maybe 400 unique items in inventory. She sells maybe a max of 5 items/day. There's an amazing fuck-all amount of paperwork associated with the accounting, ordering, tracking, shipping, all that shit. And that's with zero government regulatory stuff (Quickbooks tracks the sales tax with basically zero additional overhead).
So, while I'm generally in favor of government regulation when necessary, don't think it has zero impact on the economy or businesses.
Good luck with that. The US Govt. isn't generally subject to silly things like zoning laws. Hell the fire chief in town told me that they can't even go into the Post Office to fight a fire without the approval of the postmaster.
Rendering each of the tabs I've opened while encoding the video I'm ripping from a DVD or music from a new CD... I could definitely use more than the 4 cores I've got in my i7.
If he'd said "The God Delusion" by Dawkins you might have a point in what you said, but since he was talking about "The Selfish Gene", which doesn't talk about gods or religion at all, but is very illuminating about how life works and why creatures do what they do, the point is just at the top of your cap.
While I certainly have problems with much of Obama's stance on civil liberties and stacking the treasury with Wall St. regulars, to say that he and Romney are the same is idiotic.
Expand? Iraq is done, and Afghanistan is being wound down. Slower than I'd like, faster than most Republicans say they'd do it if they were in charge, and on a timetable worked out with experts in the field.
We really should be dumping "appropriate tech" on them instead. Low cost (low or high tech) well drilling and water pumping systems, crop rotation and such.
So that employees can cycle or run/walk to work, or at lunch and not stink up the place. Fit employees are cheaper on the health-care front and happier.
Not BS. I didn't specify what was involved with each of the installations. Sure it's automated. Did you think the devs/qa/ops guys waved their hands and focused cosmic rays to write to the disks? But someone at least still has to click "install". Or type "sudo apt get..." or whatever. My post was about proper _responsibility_ and _tasking_, not what those responsibilities and tasks involved.
Of course the devs need to install it into their test environment. And QA needs to install it into their test environment, but Ops needs to install it on the production servers.
The best way for us to get rid of the representatives and government we disagree with would be to force the laws they passed to be fully enforced. Everyone would turn the elected out at the next election.
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Where the hell were you from 2003-2009?
Honestly, you're very unlikely to experience this sort of harassment entering the US. However, I do agree with you and hate the way my country has gone since 9/11. I wish my fellow countrymen and women were more difficult to control with fear, and that the politicians were less willing to use it.
At least we seem to be stumbling, slowly, in the right direction lately.
Not sure what the situation is now, but during the summer of 2002, just about 9 months after "9/11", a friend and I sailed from Kauai to San Francisco. We saw basically no one out at sea, and could have met up with anyone carrying whatever sort of munitions. When we arrived in SF, we sailed/motored to his dock, tied up, were picked up by his wife and went home. No customs agents, no TSA, no nothing. If a nuke were available, I've got no doubt that terrorists would have no trouble killing millions.
I've got a Sony MD/CD player that will 'high speed' copy from the CD to the MiniDisc. It didn't have optical out to get the audio off my old MDs (mostly copies of my old Vinyl), so I hard-hacked it to add one. I never had one of the NetMD versions. Don't think I would have gotten one of the MDs at all due to the DRM if they started with that crap. One of these days I'll finish copying the MD's to my laptop and eBay the MD/CD box (and the portable MD player/recorder). They were nice tech for the time, but technology long since passed them by.
And has a very large number of bits in the resulting hash...
Yeah, that phrase "hasn't evolved in X years" has always bothered me. Of course they've evolved, their genes are subject to the same changes due to random mutation as everyone else's. It's just that the selection pressures on them have kept them largely the same (morphologically speaking) as far as we can tell from fossils.
You haven't _needed_ a PC/Mac for an iOS device for awhile now... Of course instead you'd have to buy into Apple's iCloud and let them manage all your data (and sell it to you in the first place).
Please don't abuse the USPS book rates, unless of course said crap was from your dog after he ate your homework or some books.
Couldn't the parts be made to closer tolerances? Perhaps by using robots? :-)
My girlfriend opened up a small retail store. Not that many items, it's an interior design shop and there are maybe 400 unique items in inventory. She sells maybe a max of 5 items/day. There's an amazing fuck-all amount of paperwork associated with the accounting, ordering, tracking, shipping, all that shit. And that's with zero government regulatory stuff (Quickbooks tracks the sales tax with basically zero additional overhead).
So, while I'm generally in favor of government regulation when necessary, don't think it has zero impact on the economy or businesses.
Good luck with that. The US Govt. isn't generally subject to silly things like zoning laws. Hell the fire chief in town told me that they can't even go into the Post Office to fight a fire without the approval of the postmaster.
No. Engineering notation (as opposed to scientific) always uses exponents evenly divided by 3, like the prefixes.
On my system, the cores are definitely pegged while transcoding the video from DVD to m4v.
Rendering each of the tabs I've opened while encoding the video I'm ripping from a DVD or music from a new CD... I could definitely use more than the 4 cores I've got in my i7.
If he'd said "The God Delusion" by Dawkins you might have a point in what you said, but since he was talking about "The Selfish Gene", which doesn't talk about gods or religion at all, but is very illuminating about how life works and why creatures do what they do, the point is just at the top of your cap.
I actually passed one on the freeway just the other day. Looked very much like this one: http://montaraventures.com/pix/amphicar.jpg
While I certainly have problems with much of Obama's stance on civil liberties and stacking the treasury with Wall St. regulars, to say that he and Romney are the same is idiotic.
I went to a talk by a guy who worked there. They don't "reload the fuel", they shoot the fuel out from the wall and the lasers hit it mid-flight.
Expand? Iraq is done, and Afghanistan is being wound down. Slower than I'd like, faster than most Republicans say they'd do it if they were in charge, and on a timetable worked out with experts in the field.
We really should be dumping "appropriate tech" on them instead. Low cost (low or high tech) well drilling and water pumping systems, crop rotation and such.
So that employees can cycle or run/walk to work, or at lunch and not stink up the place. Fit employees are cheaper on the health-care front and happier.
Not BS. I didn't specify what was involved with each of the installations. Sure it's automated. Did you think the devs/qa/ops guys waved their hands and focused cosmic rays to write to the disks? But someone at least still has to click "install". Or type "sudo apt get ..." or whatever. My post was about proper _responsibility_ and _tasking_, not what those responsibilities and tasks involved.
Of course the devs need to install it into their test environment. And QA needs to install it into their test environment, but Ops needs to install it on the production servers.
The best way for us to get rid of the representatives and government we disagree with would be to force the laws they passed to be fully enforced. Everyone would turn the elected out at the next election.
My 80+ year old farmer mom isn't an asshole, asshole.