If you read/watch that guy's interviews you'll find that he actually did want the fire fighters to come put out the fire. In fact he had a history of "opting-out" only to ask to fire department to put out his fires. Human's are largely short sighted in nature tend to not want to pay for things that insure them against future catastrophe. Of course, when that inevitable catastrophe happens to them boy do they sure squeal like a stuck pig. "How could the world turn their back on them?" "How could it be so cruel and heartless?"
The very vocal fool might realize they were wrong, but too late, and there always seems to be another ready to step in to replace them. It's easy to think things like "why should I pay for that guy's grocery bill? I've got my own to buy." But people don't stop to think that its quite possible that someone else might well be paying to feed his kids when daddy loses his job after the accident.
No, I mean like the crap that people think the government ought to give them for free and aren't smart enough to know they're paying more in taxes because of it. Like free bus service. Like free sidewalk maintenance. Like free internet. Like free cheese. Like free health care. Like... well, I made my point.
Since not everyone's income permits them to afford to pay for these services the government shouldn't provide for "free" then quite obviously they wouldn't get the public service. Just because you can afford to purchase an operate a car or buy a block of cheese at the grocery store doesn't mean everyone else can. Just because you have a job that enables you to pay for your health care doesn't mean everyone else does.
If you really want to trim the fat in government spending you'd be more productive taking a poke at the $900B/year DoD budget. Picking on low income people by removing various social services and other public good programs won't go net very much. In fact it'd almost certainly increase government expenditures dealing with the collateral damage caused by the disenfranchisement of a rather large segment of the population.
You would advocate letting the trash collect and the sidewalks crumble? You'd advocate shutting down the ER to people who can't pay? You advocate disenfranchising low income families who can't provide for the education of their children through services such as libraries, and municipal internet? You'd advocate permitting the malnourishment of children presently eligible for WIC and other food aid programs? You'd advocate hindering the ability of low income parents to get to and from work, home, and the grocery store?
You know I never realized just how much you truly cared about those whose lot is worse than yours. I'm touched...
The "free municipal systems" aren't really free, you know, they just spread the cost to everyone, even those who have no interest in getting "the internet" and those who already pay for their services. Yes, this is a great deal for those who don't want to pay for their own service, until you consider all the other things that people have the government provide "for free" that they don't want to use.
The only way scalpers would create/contribute to a shortage would be if they held their inventory back from "their" customers. Of course hoarding inventory wouldn't make much sense since they want to make money. These folks are simply taking advantage of a relative scarcity to extract the extra money Apple should be charging to balance the supply and demand of the present market.
I have, it was actually a pretty cool service. Given the way it was setup, it even enable free long distance/payphone calling. You'd call 800-GOOG411 and explain who/what you were looking for. It'd then connect you.
With out a warrant the FBI committed trespass in this case and given the particulars they may well be guilty of stalking. From TFA it is now more common to place the device inside the engine compartment where it is connected to the car's power system. That adds vandalism as well as breaking and entering (unless they're highly ambidextrous and can place/hook it up without opening the hood).
Either way, perform the reverse, follow a government official around or place a tracking device on their vehicle and see what charges you are brought up on.
That's wonderful and all but you do realize there's a bit of a disconnect between your guaranteed legal rights and your realized legal rights don't you? Your guaranteed legal rights are only available to you should you have the resources to ensure them. Even so, prior to and during your expenditure of a substantial fortune, time and a measure of your sanity you will only be provided with the aforementioned subset. Hopefully it isn't a subset that allows for your termination with extreme prejudice since you just shot a law enforcement officer.
Trouble is, even if they didn't recognize the device for what it really was and I'm pretty sure they would. They wouldn't "remove" it from your car before they blew it up. If the desire was to get them to blow it up, then your best bet is to disconnect the power supply from the transmitter and mail it back in a plain package to the FBI. That said I'm certain you would find yourself surrounded by a bad set of consequences even though you were "returning it to them."
I speak as someone who lived in the BFMONW rural Midwest America for close to 10 years. I was surrounded by family farms whose children were exploited by their parents for labor both hazardous to their immediate as well as long term health. All the while they were provided an inexcusably poor education which all but guaranteed their career choices were limited to unskilled labor or semi-skilled trades. Given the economically blighted nature of such an area this generally meant they were very often forced to continue working on the farm or sometimes fork it as a start to their own.
I also speak as someone who rescued his wife from such a life. I'd watch the insults. I very much do care when children are exploited for labor to the detriment of their future. The issue is far more personal than you would've ever imagined. I would never suggest that the parents don't care about their kids, but I would very much suggest that they can be short sighted and lack understanding about the consequences of their choices about them.
Of course they're different. We are policed by them. They are policed by unelected bureaucrats policed by elected officials policed by corporate interests policed by unelected bureaucrats...
With respect to the so-called "family farm," there does seem to be a grain of truth to what AC is saying. Of those for which I am familiar the parents of the associated family tend to push the overwhelming majority of the work onto their children. Any contributions to labor tend to rest with moving the levers and other controls of their farm equipment while their kids do all the hard manual work. The better part of the parent(s)' day tends to involve any combination of hunting, fishing, drinking, and BS'ing with buddies. Gotta love U.S. child labor laws. Take them to work with you at the saw mill and you'll have C.P.S. on your case and possible jail time. Set them to work on the combine or hay baler and it's a called an American tradition and way of life.
Well that's quite simple. I can't speak much regarding OS X as I've never really paid much mind of it, however, with regards to Windows, it generally requires more CPU/GPU calculations to perform a given task than it does in Linux. Before people get up in arms, I'm not talking about calculating 1+8=9. Think much higher level. The whole Windows software stack is substantially heavier than a typical Linux distro. I don't recall exactly where I came across the statistics (I think a Communications of the ACM issue) but there was a break down of various kernel level tasks and the number of CPU operations requires for several OSs includes various versions of Windows, as well as Linux and BSD. There was a substantial improvement from WinXP to Win 7 however BSD and Linux still had a significant advantage. When it comes to the GUI it should be pretty obvious to most people that Windows and OS X come out of the box with eye-candy turned up. Eye-candy relies heavily on GPUs (or the CPU if you have to emulate functionality). You can of course turn down they eye candy on Windows (I would assume OS X) and you can conversely add eye-candy capabilities to your Linux and BSD desktop. That isn't how they usually come pre-packaged though.
Now when you consider all the extra CPU/GPU processing going on for Windows and OS X to provide eye-candy and/or overcome the inefficient nature of various OS tasks it isn't hard to grasp how power saving mechanisms can't kick in as much nor will there be as much idle time.
No! Libertarians and other "f' everyone else but me, how dare they deduct "for the common good" expenses from my paycheck" types must have their cake and eat it too!
Some how these people get it into their mind that they shouldn't have to contribute to the good of others but "woe is me" if they don't receive the benefits of the things they did not contribute to. This is an example of why people really need to get past the deduction line on their pay stubs and realize that by providing for the well fare of others they are providing for themselves as well.
No it's not "high-tech" but you forget that IPv4 is a HUGE money maker. At least in the U.S. static IPs are only handed out by ISPs if you pay their respective fees. Whether that means "business class" service and/or a specific static IP fee they extract all kinds of additional money out of their customers. Why would they want to give that up?
There are certainly plenty of locations left on this Earth wherein you may go live by your wits, and metal. You're more than welcome to take up your notion of f' everyone else I want the products of my labor to do as I want.
You and evidently a disturbing number of fellow Slashdotters fail to grasp however that since the beginning of history societies have only progressed in as much as they've succeeded in pooling their resources together. Even the most mundane things that I'm certain you and yours enjoy are a product of this. Consider the electricity to your place of residence, public sewage and water systems, public roads, hospitals, schools, emergency services, the internet, etc.. None of which would exist in the highly available form you find them today without a shared contribution to the common good. I also find it quite amusing how many of your type imagine themselves residing within the upper echelons should the Libertarian view be put in place. You folks really need to look a bit farther than the deduction line on your paycheck stub.
Regardless, my point was not finely honed to the specific idea of "perfection." It was meant to illuminate the disgusting amount of money that is spent for the specific purpose of destruction while providing an alternative vision of how it could be applied to benefit society. My point is that society is suffering in non-trivial ways due to the squandering of the present status-quo. The U.S. government lost much of its notion of "provider for the common good" when during WWII the foundations of the Military Industrial Complex were laid. Ever since the M.I.C. has been siphoning the lifeblood of the country's citizens. This needs to be righted.
If the DoD budget was trimmed even by half (which is still too bloody much spending) and the monies redirected toward, infrastructure, education, health, technology research, etc.. Inside of a very few short years we'd be looking at realizing a Utopian society. I don't think anyone really understands just how bloody big their budget is relative to all other spending. DoD spending was between $880 billion and $1.03 trillion in fiscal year 2010. We've spent over $44.75B on the B-2 bomber program, a device whose sole purpose is to destroy. How many children could you put through college with that? We've spent $65B on the F-22 program. What kind of a telecommunication infrastructure could that buy? What is the point of spending incomprehensible amounts on tools to destroy? I'm not naive, I understand the notion of protecting oneself from rogue actors but the amount spent is exceeds the definition of unconscionable.
I think there's a confusion between the technical/innovative capabilities of a "NASA" and contractors, type operation vs. private industry and the financial capabilities of the same. Anyone having an honest perspective will likely conclude that private industry can run circles around NASA's technical/innovation capabilities. However private industry seldom have the pocket book nor the luxury of delayed return on investment government organizations have.
Anyone have thoughts as to what kind of a corporate war it'd take to have affects similar to what WWI and WWII had on western Europe wherein they lost their taste for military solutions to their problems? I really don't understand why this business method and software patent warfare hasn't yet soured the corporate world into rejecting them yet. I understand the anti-competitive "benefit" of destroying your enemy's capabilities but like any war it's never one sided...
For the sake of those of us that work with silicon instead of carbon what precisely would be the downfall of this? It was my understanding that cells have essentially a programed lifespan but as these cells age they split thus producing their replacement which lives out its lifespan, rinse repeat...
No, this is a conspiracy! IMDB is in the back pocket of the MPAA. They're trying to shut out anyone not going through the major houses. Don't stop us from making our "evil corporation" hay!
I don't understand why you folks keep buying such consoles and other locked down devices. You're only encouraging the business model. Efforts to subvert the security measures brings risk of criminal liability. Perhaps the "inferior" alternatives would stop being so inferior and you'd get what you really want, but on your terms not theirs.
Not that I figure it's a good idea but a bathroom will typically have a few such "hoses" already in it. Both the toilet as well as the sink usually have a flexible hose connecting them from the water supply shutoff valve to the toilet tank, or faucet respectively. With newer installations these tend to be connected by fittings designed for finger tightening.
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If you read/watch that guy's interviews you'll find that he actually did want the fire fighters to come put out the fire. In fact he had a history of "opting-out" only to ask to fire department to put out his fires. Human's are largely short sighted in nature tend to not want to pay for things that insure them against future catastrophe. Of course, when that inevitable catastrophe happens to them boy do they sure squeal like a stuck pig. "How could the world turn their back on them?" "How could it be so cruel and heartless?"
The very vocal fool might realize they were wrong, but too late, and there always seems to be another ready to step in to replace them. It's easy to think things like "why should I pay for that guy's grocery bill? I've got my own to buy." But people don't stop to think that its quite possible that someone else might well be paying to feed his kids when daddy loses his job after the accident.
No, actually I think you did...
No, I mean like the crap that people think the government ought to give them for free and aren't smart enough to know they're paying more in taxes because of it. Like free bus service. Like free sidewalk maintenance. Like free internet. Like free cheese. Like free health care. Like ... well, I made my point.
Since not everyone's income permits them to afford to pay for these services the government shouldn't provide for "free" then quite obviously they wouldn't get the public service. Just because you can afford to purchase an operate a car or buy a block of cheese at the grocery store doesn't mean everyone else can. Just because you have a job that enables you to pay for your health care doesn't mean everyone else does.
If you really want to trim the fat in government spending you'd be more productive taking a poke at the $900B/year DoD budget. Picking on low income people by removing various social services and other public good programs won't go net very much. In fact it'd almost certainly increase government expenditures dealing with the collateral damage caused by the disenfranchisement of a rather large segment of the population.
You would advocate letting the trash collect and the sidewalks crumble? You'd advocate shutting down the ER to people who can't pay? You advocate disenfranchising low income families who can't provide for the education of their children through services such as libraries, and municipal internet? You'd advocate permitting the malnourishment of children presently eligible for WIC and other food aid programs? You'd advocate hindering the ability of low income parents to get to and from work, home, and the grocery store?
You know I never realized just how much you truly cared about those whose lot is worse than yours. I'm touched...
The "free municipal systems" aren't really free, you know, they just spread the cost to everyone, even those who have no interest in getting "the internet" and those who already pay for their services. Yes, this is a great deal for those who don't want to pay for their own service, until you consider all the other things that people have the government provide "for free" that they don't want to use.
You mean like fire service?
The only way scalpers would create/contribute to a shortage would be if they held their inventory back from "their" customers. Of course hoarding inventory wouldn't make much sense since they want to make money. These folks are simply taking advantage of a relative scarcity to extract the extra money Apple should be charging to balance the supply and demand of the present market.
I have, it was actually a pretty cool service. Given the way it was setup, it even enable free long distance/payphone calling. You'd call 800-GOOG411 and explain who/what you were looking for. It'd then connect you.
With out a warrant the FBI committed trespass in this case and given the particulars they may well be guilty of stalking. From TFA it is now more common to place the device inside the engine compartment where it is connected to the car's power system. That adds vandalism as well as breaking and entering (unless they're highly ambidextrous and can place/hook it up without opening the hood).
Either way, perform the reverse, follow a government official around or place a tracking device on their vehicle and see what charges you are brought up on.
That's wonderful and all but you do realize there's a bit of a disconnect between your guaranteed legal rights and your realized legal rights don't you? Your guaranteed legal rights are only available to you should you have the resources to ensure them. Even so, prior to and during your expenditure of a substantial fortune, time and a measure of your sanity you will only be provided with the aforementioned subset. Hopefully it isn't a subset that allows for your termination with extreme prejudice since you just shot a law enforcement officer.
Trouble is, even if they didn't recognize the device for what it really was and I'm pretty sure they would. They wouldn't "remove" it from your car before they blew it up. If the desire was to get them to blow it up, then your best bet is to disconnect the power supply from the transmitter and mail it back in a plain package to the FBI. That said I'm certain you would find yourself surrounded by a bad set of consequences even though you were "returning it to them."
I speak as someone who lived in the BFMONW rural Midwest America for close to 10 years. I was surrounded by family farms whose children were exploited by their parents for labor both hazardous to their immediate as well as long term health. All the while they were provided an inexcusably poor education which all but guaranteed their career choices were limited to unskilled labor or semi-skilled trades. Given the economically blighted nature of such an area this generally meant they were very often forced to continue working on the farm or sometimes fork it as a start to their own.
I also speak as someone who rescued his wife from such a life. I'd watch the insults. I very much do care when children are exploited for labor to the detriment of their future. The issue is far more personal than you would've ever imagined. I would never suggest that the parents don't care about their kids, but I would very much suggest that they can be short sighted and lack understanding about the consequences of their choices about them.
Of course they're different. We are policed by them. They are policed by unelected bureaucrats policed by elected officials policed by corporate interests policed by unelected bureaucrats...
Your TomTom may not be a tracker but your cell phone is.
With respect to the so-called "family farm," there does seem to be a grain of truth to what AC is saying. Of those for which I am familiar the parents of the associated family tend to push the overwhelming majority of the work onto their children. Any contributions to labor tend to rest with moving the levers and other controls of their farm equipment while their kids do all the hard manual work. The better part of the parent(s)' day tends to involve any combination of hunting, fishing, drinking, and BS'ing with buddies. Gotta love U.S. child labor laws. Take them to work with you at the saw mill and you'll have C.P.S. on your case and possible jail time. Set them to work on the combine or hay baler and it's a called an American tradition and way of life.
Find any one of these and you'll have a few good lessons you can teach your students...
Well that's quite simple. I can't speak much regarding OS X as I've never really paid much mind of it, however, with regards to Windows, it generally requires more CPU/GPU calculations to perform a given task than it does in Linux. Before people get up in arms, I'm not talking about calculating 1+8=9. Think much higher level. The whole Windows software stack is substantially heavier than a typical Linux distro. I don't recall exactly where I came across the statistics (I think a Communications of the ACM issue) but there was a break down of various kernel level tasks and the number of CPU operations requires for several OSs includes various versions of Windows, as well as Linux and BSD. There was a substantial improvement from WinXP to Win 7 however BSD and Linux still had a significant advantage. When it comes to the GUI it should be pretty obvious to most people that Windows and OS X come out of the box with eye-candy turned up. Eye-candy relies heavily on GPUs (or the CPU if you have to emulate functionality). You can of course turn down they eye candy on Windows (I would assume OS X) and you can conversely add eye-candy capabilities to your Linux and BSD desktop. That isn't how they usually come pre-packaged though.
Now when you consider all the extra CPU/GPU processing going on for Windows and OS X to provide eye-candy and/or overcome the inefficient nature of various OS tasks it isn't hard to grasp how power saving mechanisms can't kick in as much nor will there be as much idle time.
No! Libertarians and other "f' everyone else but me, how dare they deduct "for the common good" expenses from my paycheck" types must have their cake and eat it too!
Some how these people get it into their mind that they shouldn't have to contribute to the good of others but "woe is me" if they don't receive the benefits of the things they did not contribute to. This is an example of why people really need to get past the deduction line on their pay stubs and realize that by providing for the well fare of others they are providing for themselves as well.
No it's not "high-tech" but you forget that IPv4 is a HUGE money maker. At least in the U.S. static IPs are only handed out by ISPs if you pay their respective fees. Whether that means "business class" service and/or a specific static IP fee they extract all kinds of additional money out of their customers. Why would they want to give that up?
There are certainly plenty of locations left on this Earth wherein you may go live by your wits, and metal. You're more than welcome to take up your notion of f' everyone else I want the products of my labor to do as I want.
You and evidently a disturbing number of fellow Slashdotters fail to grasp however that since the beginning of history societies have only progressed in as much as they've succeeded in pooling their resources together. Even the most mundane things that I'm certain you and yours enjoy are a product of this. Consider the electricity to your place of residence, public sewage and water systems, public roads, hospitals, schools, emergency services, the internet, etc.. None of which would exist in the highly available form you find them today without a shared contribution to the common good. I also find it quite amusing how many of your type imagine themselves residing within the upper echelons should the Libertarian view be put in place. You folks really need to look a bit farther than the deduction line on your paycheck stub.
Regardless, my point was not finely honed to the specific idea of "perfection." It was meant to illuminate the disgusting amount of money that is spent for the specific purpose of destruction while providing an alternative vision of how it could be applied to benefit society. My point is that society is suffering in non-trivial ways due to the squandering of the present status-quo. The U.S. government lost much of its notion of "provider for the common good" when during WWII the foundations of the Military Industrial Complex were laid. Ever since the M.I.C. has been siphoning the lifeblood of the country's citizens. This needs to be righted.
If the DoD budget was trimmed even by half (which is still too bloody much spending) and the monies redirected toward, infrastructure, education, health, technology research, etc.. Inside of a very few short years we'd be looking at realizing a Utopian society. I don't think anyone really understands just how bloody big their budget is relative to all other spending. DoD spending was between $880 billion and $1.03 trillion in fiscal year 2010. We've spent over $44.75B on the B-2 bomber program, a device whose sole purpose is to destroy. How many children could you put through college with that? We've spent $65B on the F-22 program. What kind of a telecommunication infrastructure could that buy? What is the point of spending incomprehensible amounts on tools to destroy? I'm not naive, I understand the notion of protecting oneself from rogue actors but the amount spent is exceeds the definition of unconscionable.
I think there's a confusion between the technical/innovative capabilities of a "NASA" and contractors, type operation vs. private industry and the financial capabilities of the same. Anyone having an honest perspective will likely conclude that private industry can run circles around NASA's technical/innovation capabilities. However private industry seldom have the pocket book nor the luxury of delayed return on investment government organizations have.
Anyone have thoughts as to what kind of a corporate war it'd take to have affects similar to what WWI and WWII had on western Europe wherein they lost their taste for military solutions to their problems? I really don't understand why this business method and software patent warfare hasn't yet soured the corporate world into rejecting them yet. I understand the anti-competitive "benefit" of destroying your enemy's capabilities but like any war it's never one sided...
For the sake of those of us that work with silicon instead of carbon what precisely would be the downfall of this? It was my understanding that cells have essentially a programed lifespan but as these cells age they split thus producing their replacement which lives out its lifespan, rinse repeat...
No, this is a conspiracy! IMDB is in the back pocket of the MPAA. They're trying to shut out anyone not going through the major houses. Don't stop us from making our "evil corporation" hay!
I don't understand why you folks keep buying such consoles and other locked down devices. You're only encouraging the business model. Efforts to subvert the security measures brings risk of criminal liability. Perhaps the "inferior" alternatives would stop being so inferior and you'd get what you really want, but on your terms not theirs.
Not that I figure it's a good idea but a bathroom will typically have a few such "hoses" already in it. Both the toilet as well as the sink usually have a flexible hose connecting them from the water supply shutoff valve to the toilet tank, or faucet respectively. With newer installations these tend to be connected by fittings designed for finger tightening.