This would effectively make some hobby or learning projects illegal.
A while back someone commented here on Slashdot that unlicensed lab glassware is illegal in Texas. The law assumes that children playing with unlicensed chemistry sets are manufacturing illegal drugs. The first reference I found comes from this glassware retailer: http://www.crscientific.com/texas-glassware.html
Obama got his tax increase....we all saw it in our paychecks in January. Why can't they start cutting...but in an INTELLIGENT manner?
Because they want to make spending cuts as painful as possible so that they're the stalwart heroes fending them off. It's the Munchausen Sydrome by Proxy school of political thought.
The "by Proxy" part is especially important here; if they wanted to be truly motivated, their salaries would have been affected by the sequester — they were not.
My school evac'd to the football field bleachers. I realized then the idiocy of that since all it meant was a potential bomber need setup the bomb under the bleachers before calling in the bomb threat.
Indoor placement yields greater bang for the buck, as it retards shock wave dissipation and maximizes peak overpressure. A more effective scenario would be to place it in the auditorium before an assembly and forgo the phone call altogether.
How about if your computer suddenly craps out and you have to take it in for repair, and the repair shop has full access to all your files as soon as the power supply is fixed?
Why would somebody (particularly somebody who posts on Slashdot) haul the entire machine to a repair shop to replace a dead PSU? Five minutes with a Phillips-head screwdriver and a replacement PSU — done.
The Americans I'm personally most worried about are the left wingnuts that think that Government is the arbiter of their morals, like Bloomberg's assault on soda, or the do gooders that want to ban happy meals and shit like that. Because, when they win (and they are winning) they will want to control everything. But Liberals love to poke fun at (R) types for their issues on Abortion (stay out of my womb), they are completely silent when their side wants to control everything else.
And they are so fucked up, that some liberals are trying to ban smoking (all kinds) while at the same time trying to legalize marijuana. How are they going to smoke pot when smoking is illegal?
You're confusing "liberal" with "authoritarian." I'm a liberal, but I also support the right to sell and consume big sodas, greasy burgers, and cigarettes/weed/what-have-you, and I also broadly support the 2nd amendment, as well as women's rights.
[Y]es, in an all out war with Russia or China we would need to strike more than 1,000 targets. [C]ontrary to popular belief [fueled] by Hollywood, this would neither kill all human nor plunge us into a nuclear winter.
According to your own research? The latest studies indicate that even a small-scale exchange (between India and Pakistan, for example) would cause widespread crop failures and famines. You haven't cited any sources; here are some of mine:
"Cheap" means "low budget" so you don't need to repeat yourself.
Not necessarily; Dr Who and Red Dwarf are both low budget, but Dr Who is cheaper, in my opinion, because it uses a half an hour of material to fill an hour of airtime. Although there are certainly other factors at play, I find Red Dwarf to be very entertaining, while Dr Who is rather tedious and predictable.
If you've seen many books by the likes of Coulter, Limbaugh, and O'Rielly on many coffee tables, you need to expand your social circle. Only by limiting your associates to members of the RNC would you get such a warped view of the world.
It could have been one person with multiple coffee tables full of books.
You want to make this into a music listening device. What do you want to protect kids from? The evils of R'n'B?
Maybe he lives in suburban development? In any cultural vacuum, "keeping the kids safe" isn't merely a way for uninspiring parents to interact with their poor offspring — it can be practiced as a completely enveloping way of life.:o)
You live in a neighbourhood where you get mails about the fucking grass being too long, or the ( can't believe this ) "mailbox is mildewed" ?? What police state are you living in ?
Google "home owners association". Imagine that you think you're buying a great home in Japan, only to find out later that it's really North Korea and you've peronally insulted Kim Jong Un.
That's what an HOA is like -- living under the thumb of a tyrannical tin-pot dictator who doesn't like you or the specific shade of your roofing shingles.
They who can give up essential liberty to join an authoritarian commune, deserve home owners associations. [I'm sorry, Benjamin Franklin].
To their credit, HOAs at least serve the function of sequestering whiney bitches into avoidable, contiguous blocks. Although, I am concerned how these conformist quasi-governments may affect the minds of people forced to spend their formative years there... I wouldn't be surprised to learn they turn out DHS/TSA-material like gangbusters.
Of course there's bias. Everyone is biased, and I've never seen Hugh Pickens, timothy, or Slashdot claim otherwise.
I especially love this statement: " By the Pentagon's own admission, building and operating three versions of the F-35 — one for the Air Force, one for the Navy and one for the Marines — will cost more than $1.4 trillion over its lifetime, making it the most expensive weapons program ever undertaken". The implication being even the military thinks it too much, which they don't.
The only impression I got was that the Pentagon provided the $1.4T figure.
Point is, yes, the man from the CIP, a group dedicated to the eradication of the world's militaries, but particularly the US military, thinks we should cut the military. Shocking. I love how people for various things never call their organization by their true intentions, but always give it something normal and official sounding, to create a built in bias towards thinking they are legit when they call for things.
I suggest you consider the expression, "don't judge a book by its cover," regardless of whether or not a name sounds "normal" or "official" to you. Do you think the USA PATRIOT Act has anything to do with patriots?
by now I assume that the US is at least as invasive as North Korea, but it's OK when Amerika does it apparently.
Oh for f[u]ck's sake. Go send your friend an email that says "I think Obama is an idiot." Then wait until the FBI knocks on your door. Here's a tip: You'll be waiting a LONG time.
Then go to North Korea and send an email that says "I think Kim Jong-un is an idiot." Chances are good you'll be in a gulag (without a trial) before your friend gets the email, and once he does he'll go to jail too.
Impressive. Try writing an email to your lawyer that says "I've received a national security letter. What should I do, counselor?" and chances are good you'll wind up in ADX Florence or some extrajudicial hellhole before you get a reply.
Don't let the door hit you on the way out. If you block ads, you're just a leech anyway,
Is "leech" your term for an individual who's not completely incompetent with regard to network security? Or, maybe someone whose value system doesn't mandate owing a debt for participating in a voluntary exchange of ideas?
As I see it, any person or entity who wants to publish their ideas on the web is generally responsible for the cost of doing so. For example, this site's owners incur the cost of publishing "slashvertisements" and links to other sources' articles on this website — much like how participants in this discussion incur the cost of their own hardware, Internet connection, etc.
Now, I admit that Slashdot's own recognition of this exchange (in the form of its disable ads check box) is pathetically atypical. During the BBS days, the vast majority of sysops and users recognized and operated under this principal, yet nobody bitched and moaned about a glaring lack of epidemic-level hucksterism.
Anyway, we can pretend to play it your way if you want... I'll play the "leech" reader/contributor, and you can play the stoic consumer of shrill corporate drivel, furiously clicking on malware-laden buy-more-shit!-links to keep the Internet from shutting down, with nary a complaint save the occasional finger wagging and cries of "leech!" directed at the thieves who don't click their fair share. I can live with this arrangement — and yes, of course I'll fix your computer for you after you fuck it up again, just like every time before.;o\
By the way, since I haven't placed any ads in this message, please just donate a few bucks to the non-profit charity of your choice and we'll call it square.:o)
Equating "high powered weapons" with "assault weapons" (which latter are military look-alikes) shows a limited knowledge of firearms, at best.
Note, for the record, that an AR-15 fires a 55 grain bullet at around 3000 ft/sec. A.30-06 fires a 150+ grain bullet at 2700+ ft/sec (depending on the specific load).
In Slashdotter terms: 1.5kJ and 3.3kJ, respectively.
This study only discovers what liberal brains look like, not whether they are liberal because of their brain, or their brain developed in that fashion because they are liberal.
Worthless Science. Who paid for this worthless study?
"The Powers that Be?" Look at how many commenters are at each others' throats. That is one of the ways the public is manipulated—divide and conquer.
You really think the problems in Chicago's public sector institutions are the result of big oil, huh?
Hell no, Chicago politicians have too much integrity to accept bribes from Big Oil, and Big Oil's own integrity (and razor-thin margins) precludes them from offering them.:o)
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This would effectively make some hobby or learning projects illegal.
A while back someone commented here on Slashdot that unlicensed lab glassware is illegal in Texas. The law assumes that children playing with unlicensed chemistry sets are manufacturing illegal drugs. The first reference I found comes from this glassware retailer: http://www.crscientific.com/texas-glassware.html
One thing we can ALL agree on though: Fuck the enviromentalists and animal welfare nazis. If this law hurts PETA and greenpeace then we ALL win.
Speak for yourself. I believe that undermining the rights of a subset of people endangers that right for all people:
"First they came for the environmentalists and animal welfare Nazis, but fuck them..."
Obama got his tax increase....we all saw it in our paychecks in January. Why can't they start cutting...but in an INTELLIGENT manner?
Because they want to make spending cuts as painful as possible so that they're the stalwart heroes fending them off. It's the Munchausen Sydrome by Proxy school of political thought.
The "by Proxy" part is especially important here; if they wanted to be truly motivated, their salaries would have been affected by the sequester — they were not.
What war crimes was Manning whistleblowing?
See this comment by Uberbah.
My school evac'd to the football field bleachers. I realized then the idiocy of that since all it meant was a potential bomber need setup the bomb under the bleachers before calling in the bomb threat.
Indoor placement yields greater bang for the buck, as it retards shock wave dissipation and maximizes peak overpressure. A more effective scenario would be to place it in the auditorium before an assembly and forgo the phone call altogether.
All casino games are zero-sum, but none of them are fair games.
Blackjack and some video poker machines have zero or negative house edge when correctly played.
How about if your computer suddenly craps out and you have to take it in for repair, and the repair shop has full access to all your files as soon as the power supply is fixed?
Why would somebody (particularly somebody who posts on Slashdot) haul the entire machine to a repair shop to replace a dead PSU? Five minutes with a Phillips-head screwdriver and a replacement PSU — done.
They've used the same style GUI on NCIS and it still looks horrible to use.
That's fitting; NCIS looks horrible to watch. :o)
The Americans I'm personally most worried about are the left wingnuts that think that Government is the arbiter of their morals, like Bloomberg's assault on soda, or the do gooders that want to ban happy meals and shit like that. Because, when they win (and they are winning) they will want to control everything. But Liberals love to poke fun at (R) types for their issues on Abortion (stay out of my womb), they are completely silent when their side wants to control everything else.
And they are so fucked up, that some liberals are trying to ban smoking (all kinds) while at the same time trying to legalize marijuana. How are they going to smoke pot when smoking is illegal?
You're confusing "liberal" with "authoritarian." I'm a liberal, but I also support the right to sell and consume big sodas, greasy burgers, and cigarettes/weed/what-have-you, and I also broadly support the 2nd amendment, as well as women's rights.
[Y]es, in an all out war with Russia or China we would need to strike more than 1,000 targets. [C]ontrary to popular belief [fueled] by Hollywood, this would neither kill all human nor plunge us into a nuclear winter.
According to your own research? The latest studies indicate that even a small-scale exchange (between India and Pakistan, for example) would cause widespread crop failures and famines. You haven't cited any sources; here are some of mine:
Nuclear winter revisited with a modern climate model and current nuclear arsenals: Still catastrophic consequences (2006)
Consequences of Regional-Scale Nuclear Conflicts (2007)
Massive global ozone loss predicted following regional nuclear conflict (2008)
"Cheap" means "low budget" so you don't need to repeat yourself.
Not necessarily; Dr Who and Red Dwarf are both low budget, but Dr Who is cheaper, in my opinion, because it uses a half an hour of material to fill an hour of airtime. Although there are certainly other factors at play, I find Red Dwarf to be very entertaining, while Dr Who is rather tedious and predictable.
The New York Times is in fact a paper of record.
If you've seen many books by the likes of Coulter, Limbaugh, and O'Rielly on many coffee tables, you need to expand your social circle. Only by limiting your associates to members of the RNC would you get such a warped view of the world.
It could have been one person with multiple coffee tables full of books.
You want to make this into a music listening device. What do you want to protect kids from? The evils of R'n'B?
Maybe he lives in suburban development? In any cultural vacuum, "keeping the kids safe" isn't merely a way for uninspiring parents to interact with their poor offspring — it can be practiced as a completely enveloping way of life. :o)
You live in a neighbourhood where you get mails about the fucking grass being too long, or the ( can't believe this ) "mailbox is mildewed" ?? What police state are you living in ?
Google "home owners association". Imagine that you think you're buying a great home in Japan, only to find out later that it's really North Korea and you've peronally insulted Kim Jong Un.
That's what an HOA is like -- living under the thumb of a tyrannical tin-pot dictator who doesn't like you or the specific shade of your roofing shingles.
They who can give up essential liberty to join an authoritarian commune, deserve home owners associations. [I'm sorry, Benjamin Franklin].
To their credit, HOAs at least serve the function of sequestering whiney bitches into avoidable, contiguous blocks. Although, I am concerned how these conformist quasi-governments may affect the minds of people forced to spend their formative years there... I wouldn't be surprised to learn they turn out DHS/TSA-material like gangbusters.
No bias at all...
Of course there's bias. Everyone is biased, and I've never seen Hugh Pickens, timothy, or Slashdot claim otherwise.
I especially love this statement: " By the Pentagon's own admission, building and operating three versions of the F-35 — one for the Air Force, one for the Navy and one for the Marines — will cost more than $1.4 trillion over its lifetime, making it the most expensive weapons program ever undertaken". The implication being even the military thinks it too much, which they don't.
The only impression I got was that the Pentagon provided the $1.4T figure.
Point is, yes, the man from the CIP, a group dedicated to the eradication of the world's militaries, but particularly the US military, thinks we should cut the military.
Shocking. I love how people for various things never call their organization by their true intentions, but always give it something normal and official sounding, to create a built in bias towards thinking they are legit when they call for things.
I suggest you consider the expression, "don't judge a book by its cover," regardless of whether or not a name sounds "normal" or "official" to you. Do you think the USA PATRIOT Act has anything to do with patriots?
I totally feel you. Some problem with the ardupilot on take off here.
The post made feel like the dumbest nerd on earth.
Better a dumb nerd than a smart philistine.
Addendum: I should have said "likely;" I didn't mean to imply that an armed populace would lead to a deterministic outcome.
according to slashdotters the people can overthrow any government using guerilla warfare and stuff, i guess not huh
It depends on if the populace is armed or not — contrast North Korea with Afghanistan.
by now I assume that the US is at least as invasive as North Korea, but it's OK when Amerika does it apparently.
Oh for f[u]ck's sake. Go send your friend an email that says "I think Obama is an idiot." Then wait until the FBI knocks on your door. Here's a tip: You'll be waiting a LONG time.
Then go to North Korea and send an email that says "I think Kim Jong-un is an idiot." Chances are good you'll be in a gulag (without a trial) before your friend gets the email, and once he does he'll go to jail too.
Impressive. Try writing an email to your lawyer that says "I've received a national security letter. What should I do, counselor?" and chances are good you'll wind up in ADX Florence or some extrajudicial hellhole before you get a reply.
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Haven't gotten any mod points in years. :(
I have found that staying logged into Slashdot 24/7 obviates receipt of mod points; try logging out at least once a day.
Don't let the door hit you on the way out. If you block ads, you're just a leech anyway,
Is "leech" your term for an individual who's not completely incompetent with regard to network security? Or, maybe someone whose value system doesn't mandate owing a debt for participating in a voluntary exchange of ideas?
As I see it, any person or entity who wants to publish their ideas on the web is generally responsible for the cost of doing so. For example, this site's owners incur the cost of publishing "slashvertisements" and links to other sources' articles on this website — much like how participants in this discussion incur the cost of their own hardware, Internet connection, etc.
Now, I admit that Slashdot's own recognition of this exchange (in the form of its disable ads check box) is pathetically atypical. During the BBS days, the vast majority of sysops and users recognized and operated under this principal, yet nobody bitched and moaned about a glaring lack of epidemic-level hucksterism.
Anyway, we can pretend to play it your way if you want... I'll play the "leech" reader/contributor, and you can play the stoic consumer of shrill corporate drivel, furiously clicking on malware-laden buy-more-shit!-links to keep the Internet from shutting down, with nary a complaint save the occasional finger wagging and cries of "leech!" directed at the thieves who don't click their fair share. I can live with this arrangement — and yes, of course I'll fix your computer for you after you fuck it up again, just like every time before. ;o\
By the way, since I haven't placed any ads in this message, please just donate a few bucks to the non-profit charity of your choice and we'll call it square. :o)
Equating "high powered weapons" with "assault weapons" (which latter are military look-alikes) shows a limited knowledge of firearms, at best.
Note, for the record, that an AR-15 fires a 55 grain bullet at around 3000 ft/sec. A .30-06 fires a 150+ grain bullet at 2700+ ft/sec (depending on the specific load).
In Slashdotter terms: 1.5kJ and 3.3kJ, respectively.
This study only discovers what liberal brains look like, not whether they are liberal because of their brain, or their brain developed in that fashion because they are liberal.
Worthless Science. Who paid for this worthless study?
"The Powers that Be?" Look at how many commenters are at each others' throats. That is one of the ways the public is manipulated—divide and conquer.
You really think the problems in Chicago's public sector institutions are the result of big oil, huh?
Hell no, Chicago politicians have too much integrity to accept bribes from Big Oil, and Big Oil's own integrity (and razor-thin margins) precludes them from offering them. :o)