Why does egypt have a closed border with Gaza? Why does Jordan have a closed border with the west bank? Israel isn't the only party guilty of blockading the palestinians.
Citizens of soviet russia still had to work and they weren't allowed to keep much of any wealth. They effectively had 100% taxes, and yet they still worked. I'm not suggesting that we should tax wealth or make it illegal not to work, but your assumptions are based on "common sense" rather than fact.
It's not stealing, you have a choice not to take part in this system. All taxes are going to benefit some more than others.
You're welcome to move to Somalia where there is no government to take your money or trample on your freedoms. Just don't expect to have the benefits of a stable currency to trade with, a government to enforce contracts, large scale water purification to give you cheap arsenic free drinking water, or even a public police force to keep people from trying to take your property.
Do you include statutory rape in those blanket statements? In some states in the US, it's possible to be declared a child rapist if you have consensual sex with your girlfriend who is 1 day younger than you on the wrong day. Certainly this deserves a far different punishment than the case of abusing a minor with decades of age difference.
Regarding recreation vs. transit, it really depends on where you live. Bicycles (and farm implements) are already banned from highways in most states, so you shouldn't see them there. In Chicago, I know far more people that commute by bike than by car. Many of them earn 6 figures, own homes and pay plenty of property taxes, so they're paying just as much for city roads as the drivers, without putting nearly as much wear and tear on them. Some of us live close enough to work that this is easy. Cars on the roads really slow down us bike commuters quite a bit. Bike commuters slow down cars quite a bit. Busses slow down cars. Car traffic slows down busses. Why should one taxpayers choice of commute get preferential treatment over another?
Do you even know any drivers who attempt to not exceed posted speed limits on roads by 5-10mph? This may be anecdotal, but almost all people I've met who bitch about cyclists have a history of rear ending other drivers and causing accidents, meaning they are terrible drivers.
You want cyclists to respect cars? Start by respecting the traffic laws. This works both ways.
We've been doing it for at least a century already. Any time you go to a hospital, if you pay your bill, you're effectively paying for the people who can't or won't pay for insurance.
Reprocessing uranium involves producing bomb grade plutonium as a step, so we better regulate the hell out of these plants to make sure they have a small military for protection. The real reason why nobody without massive government subsidies does it is because it's currently cheaper just to get new fuel.
I have no idea these days, but last time I spec'd out the purchase of carbide cutting inserts they weren't much more than $5 when sintered into your desired shape in bulk. Wouldn't the diamonds burn up pretty easily?
Power for the HDMI touchscreen (9-15V) can be provided from a 4 cell LiPO RC battery. A standard cigarette lighter to USB adapter can likely be used to drop the 14.8V down to 5V for the raspberry pi.
Cowboy coding is the absolute last thing you want in these systems. Rushing out the latest bug fixes is a terrible model for software that puts life at risk. Yes, this version might be hackable and that could cause problems if someone has malicious intent. Fixing the issue without a LOT of QA and bureaucracy to make sure proper testing procedures are followed is far more likely to kill people.
I've never met anyone who built a laptop from parts, so maybe you're comparing a desktop to a laptop. Building a desktop from parts is only useful if you can afford to spend the time debugging hardware or software when it's not stable. These days I need to use my computer for work, so it's not acceptable any more to spend 10 hours figuring out which top of the line part is failing so I can return it for warranty replacement. If I ever got another PC, I'd get a Dell. They're not the fastest or cheapest, but at least I know the network card isn't interfere with the video card in some unforeseen way because they've been well tested together before purchase.
On the OS end, there wasn't really such a thing as a power user in the 80s. To do anything remotely interesting, you need to do some heavy reading of Inside Macintosh, know assembly, and how to use Macsbug. Alternately, you could install someone else's hack, but sometimes these did the near impossible and made the OS even less stable. You couldn't even select a custom paper size in the Apple Writer print dialog, you had to pick from one of 5 or so. These days, there are a number of shells and scripting languages installed out of the box and a pretty nice terminal.
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Why does egypt have a closed border with Gaza? Why does Jordan have a closed border with the west bank? Israel isn't the only party guilty of blockading the palestinians.
Like dollars or gold.
Looks like you may need newer versions of the "samba4" and "samba4-clients" packages?
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/samba4/+bug/887537
Citizens of soviet russia still had to work and they weren't allowed to keep much of any wealth. They effectively had 100% taxes, and yet they still worked. I'm not suggesting that we should tax wealth or make it illegal not to work, but your assumptions are based on "common sense" rather than fact.
It's not stealing, you have a choice not to take part in this system. All taxes are going to benefit some more than others.
You're welcome to move to Somalia where there is no government to take your money or trample on your freedoms. Just don't expect to have the benefits of a stable currency to trade with, a government to enforce contracts, large scale water purification to give you cheap arsenic free drinking water, or even a public police force to keep people from trying to take your property.
Ethanol from corn requires more energy than it produces, but due to subsidies it makes money for some politically connected businesses.
With imgur down, don't you mean less blind and hairy people?
What if you drop the end of it into a puddle that you're standing in?
In the US at least, gas taxes aren't nearly high enough to pay for road construction and maintenance. Cheap roads are already an entitlement.
Do you include statutory rape in those blanket statements? In some states in the US, it's possible to be declared a child rapist if you have consensual sex with your girlfriend who is 1 day younger than you on the wrong day. Certainly this deserves a far different punishment than the case of abusing a minor with decades of age difference.
You're right, I probably wouldn't believe whatever you tell me about that.
Regarding recreation vs. transit, it really depends on where you live. Bicycles (and farm implements) are already banned from highways in most states, so you shouldn't see them there. In Chicago, I know far more people that commute by bike than by car. Many of them earn 6 figures, own homes and pay plenty of property taxes, so they're paying just as much for city roads as the drivers, without putting nearly as much wear and tear on them. Some of us live close enough to work that this is easy. Cars on the roads really slow down us bike commuters quite a bit. Bike commuters slow down cars quite a bit. Busses slow down cars. Car traffic slows down busses. Why should one taxpayers choice of commute get preferential treatment over another?
Do you even know any drivers who attempt to not exceed posted speed limits on roads by 5-10mph? This may be anecdotal, but almost all people I've met who bitch about cyclists have a history of rear ending other drivers and causing accidents, meaning they are terrible drivers.
You want cyclists to respect cars? Start by respecting the traffic laws. This works both ways.
Further, roads were originally built for cyclists: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Good_Roads_Movement
In Illinois and Pennsylvania at least, this is the law. I see a lot of cars roll through stop signs too though, including most cops.
We've been doing it for at least a century already. Any time you go to a hospital, if you pay your bill, you're effectively paying for the people who can't or won't pay for insurance.
Maybe, but it's easy to tighten a loose superpower.
Reprocessing uranium involves producing bomb grade plutonium as a step, so we better regulate the hell out of these plants to make sure they have a small military for protection. The real reason why nobody without massive government subsidies does it is because it's currently cheaper just to get new fuel.
So if we fought a war against China, you'd advocate that we don't use gunpowder based bullets?
I have no idea these days, but last time I spec'd out the purchase of carbide cutting inserts they weren't much more than $5 when sintered into your desired shape in bulk. Wouldn't the diamonds burn up pretty easily?
Power for the HDMI touchscreen (9-15V) can be provided from a 4 cell LiPO RC battery. A standard cigarette lighter to USB adapter can likely be used to drop the 14.8V down to 5V for the raspberry pi.
Wait until congress decides to waste time investigating, like they did with baseball.
Cowboy coding is the absolute last thing you want in these systems. Rushing out the latest bug fixes is a terrible model for software that puts life at risk. Yes, this version might be hackable and that could cause problems if someone has malicious intent. Fixing the issue without a LOT of QA and bureaucracy to make sure proper testing procedures are followed is far more likely to kill people.
init=/bin/bash still works with grub2 in Debian.
Any idea which drug store carries a tester for this big plasma tube?
I've never met anyone who built a laptop from parts, so maybe you're comparing a desktop to a laptop. Building a desktop from parts is only useful if you can afford to spend the time debugging hardware or software when it's not stable. These days I need to use my computer for work, so it's not acceptable any more to spend 10 hours figuring out which top of the line part is failing so I can return it for warranty replacement. If I ever got another PC, I'd get a Dell. They're not the fastest or cheapest, but at least I know the network card isn't interfere with the video card in some unforeseen way because they've been well tested together before purchase.
On the OS end, there wasn't really such a thing as a power user in the 80s. To do anything remotely interesting, you need to do some heavy reading of Inside Macintosh, know assembly, and how to use Macsbug. Alternately, you could install someone else's hack, but sometimes these did the near impossible and made the OS even less stable. You couldn't even select a custom paper size in the Apple Writer print dialog, you had to pick from one of 5 or so. These days, there are a number of shells and scripting languages installed out of the box and a pretty nice terminal.