there's a bit of the "because i can" aspect to it.
strangely enough, in australia you can buy stills below a certain size, but not run them for booze (essential oils are fine). weirdly enough, the brew shops are the only place you can get them, and they make no secret of the fact that you can buy them, use them, and even buy flavouring essences for the purpose of turning vodka into other drinks (if you have low self esteem - otherwise you do it the proper way).
when the zombies come, i wont need to make the perilous trek to the fuel place if my chainsaw's running low.
it's a real world case of dependency hell. in order to get a license to make new reactors, the new reactors need to be proven in the field, and you can't prove them in the field unless you build them...
there's a reason there's not been any drastically new designs actually built since the cold war started winding down, and the military suddenly didn't need to keep building their own untested designs.
maybe we need a 2nd cold war just so the militaries can bypass the hostile regulatory environment and prove some better designs?
who'd have thought that government could be the only thing that trumps regulation? the Randroids here will have a fit!
pu239 (weapons grade pu) is not useful in RTGs... pu240 is.
but the good news is all you need to do is leave the spent fuel in the reactor longer and you'll get much more pu240 than pu239, and you can't make weapons out of that shit, and you can't separate the two meaningfully either.
interesting. i have dabbled a bit in moonshining, but it's funny that i don't get pissed on it. it's so hard to make a substantial amount of it, if it turns out half decent, you tend to savour every drop. if it turns out crap, you put it on carbon and turn it into limoncello, absinthe (i has a wormwood plant) or some seriously incendiary chili extract (for self defence as much as culinary use). the really good stuff gets turned into gin by wifey.
australia doesn't have politicians anymore. politics was privatized and is now run by the mob at Fremantle Media that handle Big Brother.
i wish i could vote for some person or party that weren't just the least worst. i'd like to vote for someone i actually agree with.
the greens are as close as i can get, but they're certainly not perfect, and in any case number 2 on the ballot will end up with the vote, so i'm just bit-shifting my inevitable choice between labor and lib.
does it for me - turns a 1024x600 screen into a 1280x720, at the cost of a little blurriness.
of course, in the latest linuxes, mouse cursor bounds are set to your original size, so you can't get the mouse cursor into all that extra screen space...
yep. look at australian aboriginal communities. the alcohol is much much worse than the weed. cops usually don't bother enforcing weed because there's so little risk of violence occurring as a result of it. alcohol on the other hand... well, quite a lot of places in australia actually have prohibition for that reason.
i'm not abusing your stance. i'm exposing it as completely unrealistic.
i'm saying public infrastructure necessarily has been built by government, because that's what governments do. therefore at some point with privatisation, the reins have to be handed over from government. this means contracts, because government is accountable to the people (that includes you...), and so tendering processes have to be by the book and open.
i'm not aware of any case where the free market has built actual infrastructure with no involvement from government. i may be exposing myself as ignorant here, but i'm pretty sure that in the real world you can never have pure, unadulterated free market run infrastructure that has never been touched (tainted?) by government. i would love to see one counterexample, so i can read up on it.
apple definitely are gunning for the consumer market there, but to imply they don't chase enterprise stuff is not exactly true. they chase enterprise, then back out when it's not making as much as their core business of consumer stuff.
from my post production background i have a few examples. it'll be a skewed picture of course.
- Xserve and XSAN systems. they ditched this line a while ago, but not so soon that the facility i worked at spent a LOT of money on an XSAN. - DVD studio pro. acquired Spruce Technologies and their DVDMaestro product (which i still use, in spite of being 2001 vintage...). they ditched it in the latest final cut studio - Apple Colo(u)r. they bought out Final Touch Pro from some startup that was selling it for $75k. they released it free with final cut studio. the ENTIRE fucking industry gets it, i'm forced to use it (it's awful btw), and then it gets EOL'd in the same final cut studio release that killed DVD studio pro (which is actually a really good program and vast cosmetic improvement on DVDMaestro). - Shake. they bought this compositing software from god knows who, then EOL'd it just as everybody in post started depending on it. they all use nuke now, so it's alright i guess. - Final Cut Pro. this is a big one. they released a very good editing program for a cheap price into a small market. it was such a good program that over a few years it became ubiquitous. i actually don't mind using it, and i hate everything. Final Cut X comes out and it's completely fucked. sure, it works, but on a consumer level (hey, that's where Apple's business is i suppose). they killed every single post-production workflow feature in one fell swoop. i mean every single one. no EDL support (primitive text based edit lists that still drive interoperability between neg matchers, scanners, telecine, and multitudes of editing and finishing machines and packages). no XML support, so you can't load your old projects or sync to the (now EOL'd) color package. no tape deck support. it goes on. they've re-introduced a lot of features through updates, but it shook the industry like you wouldn't believe. people were talking about having to use adobe premiere (a piece of shit) because it was the nearest thing that worked.
Apple are actively hostile to professionals, but not through ignoring - through seemingly deliberate antagonism.
exactly. if you drive normally and someone's scrambling to pass you, they'll be gone if you let them pass.
if someone's not watching the road, but driving otherwise within the law, you'll be stuck trying to avoid them until one of you turns off or you finally tire of it and break the speed limit to get the hell away from them.
thankfully, when police have stopped me after an incident like this, they've actually not booked me and understood completely. i guess they have to share the road with idiots all day long, to say nothing of the automatic -10km/h they'd incur everywhere they went because they were in a police car (people don't realise that if you're at the speed limit, you wont be booked. there's no need to slow down just because there's a cop around).
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there's a bit of the "because i can" aspect to it.
strangely enough, in australia you can buy stills below a certain size, but not run them for booze (essential oils are fine). weirdly enough, the brew shops are the only place you can get them, and they make no secret of the fact that you can buy them, use them, and even buy flavouring essences for the purpose of turning vodka into other drinks (if you have low self esteem - otherwise you do it the proper way).
when the zombies come, i wont need to make the perilous trek to the fuel place if my chainsaw's running low.
retail has had it too good for too long. they're demanding a free market when it suits them, and outright protectionism when it doesn't.
internet = choice. if amazon fuck up, people will go elsewhere and wait an extra couple of days for their shiny to arrive.
he could always send a terse email demanding a release of source to... um.
shit. haven't heard form that guy in a looong time.
maybe it's more a matter of any improvements he makes to the standard toilet paper design should be committed upstream?
it's never free...
if he's anything like me, my son will have no qualms about making his... er... "source" as available as possible.
now, whether anyone's willing to download, compile and install it is another matter.
you bastard! give dis peeple air!
I really don't want to know is how one programs in toilet paper.
never used Adobe Premiere?
it's a real world case of dependency hell. in order to get a license to make new reactors, the new reactors need to be proven in the field, and you can't prove them in the field unless you build them...
there's a reason there's not been any drastically new designs actually built since the cold war started winding down, and the military suddenly didn't need to keep building their own untested designs.
maybe we need a 2nd cold war just so the militaries can bypass the hostile regulatory environment and prove some better designs?
who'd have thought that government could be the only thing that trumps regulation? the Randroids here will have a fit!
ack! i wasted all my mods yesterday! this made me laugh.
pu239 (weapons grade pu) is not useful in RTGs... pu240 is.
but the good news is all you need to do is leave the spent fuel in the reactor longer and you'll get much more pu240 than pu239, and you can't make weapons out of that shit, and you can't separate the two meaningfully either.
interesting. i have dabbled a bit in moonshining, but it's funny that i don't get pissed on it. it's so hard to make a substantial amount of it, if it turns out half decent, you tend to savour every drop. if it turns out crap, you put it on carbon and turn it into limoncello, absinthe (i has a wormwood plant) or some seriously incendiary chili extract (for self defence as much as culinary use). the really good stuff gets turned into gin by wifey.
in this country, we say "ARSE". we also don't say "we the people".
australian patriots have appropriated a disturbing amount of american sentiments without even knowing.
australia doesn't have politicians anymore. politics was privatized and is now run by the mob at Fremantle Media that handle Big Brother.
i wish i could vote for some person or party that weren't just the least worst. i'd like to vote for someone i actually agree with.
the greens are as close as i can get, but they're certainly not perfect, and in any case number 2 on the ballot will end up with the vote, so i'm just bit-shifting my inevitable choice between labor and lib.
xrandr --output LVDS1 --scale 1.25x1.2
does it for me - turns a 1024x600 screen into a 1280x720, at the cost of a little blurriness.
of course, in the latest linuxes, mouse cursor bounds are set to your original size, so you can't get the mouse cursor into all that extra screen space...
yep. look at australian aboriginal communities. the alcohol is much much worse than the weed. cops usually don't bother enforcing weed because there's so little risk of violence occurring as a result of it. alcohol on the other hand... well, quite a lot of places in australia actually have prohibition for that reason.
i'm not abusing your stance. i'm exposing it as completely unrealistic.
i'm saying public infrastructure necessarily has been built by government, because that's what governments do. therefore at some point with privatisation, the reins have to be handed over from government. this means contracts, because government is accountable to the people (that includes you...), and so tendering processes have to be by the book and open.
i'm not aware of any case where the free market has built actual infrastructure with no involvement from government. i may be exposing myself as ignorant here, but i'm pretty sure that in the real world you can never have pure, unadulterated free market run infrastructure that has never been touched (tainted?) by government. i would love to see one counterexample, so i can read up on it.
...AIDS...patients with no self control.
how the fuck do you draw that conclusion?
hi-five!
...opening of the PC era, 20-25 years ago.
showing your age there :) 20 years ago was 1992 and PCs had been around for quite some time.
apple definitely are gunning for the consumer market there, but to imply they don't chase enterprise stuff is not exactly true. they chase enterprise, then back out when it's not making as much as their core business of consumer stuff.
from my post production background i have a few examples. it'll be a skewed picture of course.
- Xserve and XSAN systems. they ditched this line a while ago, but not so soon that the facility i worked at spent a LOT of money on an XSAN.
- DVD studio pro. acquired Spruce Technologies and their DVDMaestro product (which i still use, in spite of being 2001 vintage...). they ditched it in the latest final cut studio
- Apple Colo(u)r. they bought out Final Touch Pro from some startup that was selling it for $75k. they released it free with final cut studio. the ENTIRE fucking industry gets it, i'm forced to use it (it's awful btw), and then it gets EOL'd in the same final cut studio release that killed DVD studio pro (which is actually a really good program and vast cosmetic improvement on DVDMaestro).
- Shake. they bought this compositing software from god knows who, then EOL'd it just as everybody in post started depending on it. they all use nuke now, so it's alright i guess.
- Final Cut Pro. this is a big one. they released a very good editing program for a cheap price into a small market. it was such a good program that over a few years it became ubiquitous. i actually don't mind using it, and i hate everything. Final Cut X comes out and it's completely fucked. sure, it works, but on a consumer level (hey, that's where Apple's business is i suppose). they killed every single post-production workflow feature in one fell swoop. i mean every single one. no EDL support (primitive text based edit lists that still drive interoperability between neg matchers, scanners, telecine, and multitudes of editing and finishing machines and packages). no XML support, so you can't load your old projects or sync to the (now EOL'd) color package. no tape deck support. it goes on. they've re-introduced a lot of features through updates, but it shook the industry like you wouldn't believe. people were talking about having to use adobe premiere (a piece of shit) because it was the nearest thing that worked.
Apple are actively hostile to professionals, but not through ignoring - through seemingly deliberate antagonism.
the "enemies of the USA" did not create flame, nor compromise these certificates.
you're looking for "USA and it's special friend" there. this is public knowledge now.
nah, you were just faster than all tho
so what's the alternative? free markets all the way down? i don't think time travel exists yet (or ever... unless they only go forward).
governments exist, and your worldview is going to have to adapt to that, or it'll be selected out.
exactly. if you drive normally and someone's scrambling to pass you, they'll be gone if you let them pass.
if someone's not watching the road, but driving otherwise within the law, you'll be stuck trying to avoid them until one of you turns off or you finally tire of it and break the speed limit to get the hell away from them.
thankfully, when police have stopped me after an incident like this, they've actually not booked me and understood completely. i guess they have to share the road with idiots all day long, to say nothing of the automatic -10km/h they'd incur everywhere they went because they were in a police car (people don't realise that if you're at the speed limit, you wont be booked. there's no need to slow down just because there's a cop around).