In the natural world (strange choice of term, but I'll go with it), you have the right to kill your neighbour, and anyone else you like too. The "brotherhood of man" (another strange term... but anyway) was formed (partially) to prevent you doing all these nutjob things. Sorry, but just because you consider your rights over someone born into our society total and complete, doesn't mean we do.
If you're on a 6-hour flight, you will get more than just a few peanuts since it isn't reasonable to expect people to go without food that long.
Seriously? I realised on wednesday last week that I'd not eaten _anything_ for 48 hours. I had had a few sugary drinks though. That wasn't deliberate, and I know it's not healthy, but 6 hours? This was while doing a physical job too....
Our sensors _are_ pretty high precision, and very well integrated with our brain. They're also integrated well with each other. The three _big_ ones that are used in football would be sight, equilibrioception (balance), and proprioception (limb awareness), IMO (with touch and hearing playing lesser parts). Those 3 alone are very hard to replicate well in robotics, and combine into a complete package.
I don't know what to say, really.... journalists at the news of the world seem to have broken into the phone of a child who was killed, possibly hampering police investigations.
She apparently says : "It feels like a friend had just died, I'm so shocked, all of those decent, hardworking, uninvolved people out of a job - just like that."
I was going to throw a hate filled tirade on why "Sarah's law" is wrong on so many levels, and why this woman makes me so angry, but I won't.
The Star is a different paper, which has different editors and policies. The Sun may spew political nonsence, with a bit of softcore porn on the side. The Star doesn't even try for political nonsence - it's purely a softcore porn celebrity gossip rag, with maybe a couple of "political correctness gone mad" stories thrown in between.
The Daily Mail is a heap of vitriolic middle class nouveau riche self righteous shit, claiming to be higher brow than the gutter press, yet reporting upon exactly the same things, and attempting to keep the readers swaddled in a permanent state of fear.
Not that I'm defending the Sun.... but it's probably better than those two.
Also, I do agree with you, about the principle - constantly showing women half-naked just over the legal age is sending a message.
rants on about paedophiles on page 2 and shows a barely 16 girl baring her breasts on page 3.
To be fair, they don't. 16 and 17 year olds are still considered underage in terms of the child porn laws. You're allowed to fuck them of course, you just can't draw a sexually suggestive picture of them.
I wonder how you would feel if, in order to feed yourself, you had to hunt or grow your own food. Do you know how to do that? I sure don't.
Seriously? You don't know how to hunt or grow your own food? Ok... hunting requires decent hardware to do easily (which in the UK is a bit of a problem)... though my dog brings back rabbits pretty often anyway. Growing your own food, however, is astonishingly easy. You plant it, make sure it's watered, make sure it's weeded, and it produces nearly all of the time. You don't have to do anything else. It's not rocket science.
I will admit, like you though, that I don't hunt or grow all my food. It's much more efficient to have people who know what they are doing do the things they are doing well, rather than everyone doing everything in a mediocre fashion. That doesn't mean that there's some mystical art to growing food though - anyone can do it, albeit at lower efficiencies than large scale operations.
ThisMagicRoundabout in Hemel Hempstead is relatively well known in the UK... I've gone round it a few times in my articulated truck, and it requires a bit of concentration, because you always get cars trying to overtake/undertake when there isn't room. This link is probably my favourite, because of the interviews, and the presenter's charisma.
It also wastes more fuel than it save when it comes to semi trucks since the driver has to downshift more gears than coming to a complete stop thus running at much higher RPMs for longer periods of time and using more fuel than starting from a dead stop. I have driven trucks with MPG calculators and your average MPG going into roundabouts is much less than if you are at a dead stop and have to accelerate up to speed. As in roundabouts 0.75 MPG versus from a stop 1.8 MPG
Your MPG calculator is wrong. It doesn't matter how high your revs are if you're not using the gas... If you're in gear, and not touching the gas pedal, you are using zero gas. You have infinite MPG. If you are using the gas at high RPM, change up. I don't know how on earth you think slowing, then getting back up to speed could possibly use more gas than coming to a complete halt.... basic laws of thermodynamics suggest it's probably not the case.
(in both Windows and *nix, you have to create a new user account for it, but Windows is worst because most programs can't even be installed unless you're running as administrator)
I run as admin all the time on my Vista machine. I do this because:
Only I use it.
My sytem files are replaceable.
My user files are the most important to me.
It's way more convenient.
Running as a limited user on Windows does not protect your user files, obviously - you have full access to them. I've recently had a couple of malware attacks with firefox that use user priveledges only, and infiltrate via the browser.
I moniter my network traffic, I look at what is running (note - HijackThis and Malwarebytes failed to pick up the problem, though I do like both those programs... running an old Firefox probably didn't help).
I guess my point is that for people like me, with their own computer, the user data is the most important... and running as admin does not endanger that (in my case I think it helps in some ways... I can see what is running in my user space more easily). The only real problem with running as admin with a personal computer is the possibility it can get infected completely without the user's knowledge, and do harm to someone else.
I agree with the idea that capturing one group will result in a second group popping up, but the same is true with crime -- arresting people who commit $criminal_offense won't stop $criminal_offense from occurring.
It will to some degree.... but prevention is better than cure. For example, car theft in the UK has dropped to about 1/3 of what it was 10 years ago, due to better security. Now, we have boiler room scams and internet fraud to take its place.
I never ever, ever, never ever, ever (ever never), would buy anything off of someone who contacts me randomly out of the blue. I don't understand the mentality of it... even if the company calling/e-mailing/mailing me are legitimate, they're spending money on marketing which could be used better on service for their customers. That's _if_ they're legit...
Someone else still owns it. Period. It doesn't matter whether you like copyrights or not. It is insane to claim this case has anything to do with fair use. This is a blatant case of someone using a piece of art that he didn't own and just ASSUMING that the owner of the art wouldn't object.
It absolutely does depend on whether you like copyrights or not. If you don't like uber long copyrights, then this guy was in the right. If you _do_ like copyrights that last for multiple decades, growing to over a century, then this guy was in the wrong.
It wasn't plagiarised (afaik), so it's entirely about copyright. Using a piece of art that you don't "own" is entirely 100% fine... apart from copyright.
Fair use doesn't enter into this admittedly - fair use doesn't include commercial enterprises using copyrighted images for personal gain, funnily enough.
Basically, my point is that it's _all_ about whether you like (long) copyrights or not. Using a random image that had been around for decades, and had been used elsewhere without problems, is probably a poor idea given our current legal framework, but I don't think it's wrong.
I personally think that if rich countries dropped all subsidies and made corporate/political connections illegal, the world economy would go to shit...
For a while.
After everything had gone to shit, manufacturing industries would prosper, innovative industries (not patent industries) would prosper.
Ok... my point is that the "working man" in the west has a problem. His costs are way higher than that of those elsewhere. We don't need to concern ourself with charity - it's self-defeating at the moment. What the "working man" wants is a level playing field.
Subsidies are _only_ in place generally because higher living costs require them. (Note - I do realise they can be used as a political tool too). Without higher living costs, subsidies wouldn't be necessary. If living costs were even globally, there should be no subsidies.
We have all types in the UK, including bus lane cameras which are proper stupid in some instances. Numerous times I've had a camera bus lane on my side, and a bus attempting to overtake a loading vehicle on their side. I can't move over into the bus lane to let the bus coming the other way out, because I'll get a ticket. It's completely counterproductive... this is in London, too, so you can be sat in the same spot for minutes with the bus driver getting annoyed at you.
One of the newest things they've introduced is junction red lights activated by prior speed. ie a camera up the road clocks you at over the speed limit, and automatically switches the light to red in the junction ahead. Yet to see how these will pan out.
I've personally gone through red lights (carefully) to let emergency vehicles past, but only after I made sure there were no cameras. If there was a camera in that situation, I wouldn't, just because I can't be dealing with the hassle. I never jump reds (generally), because it makes driving so much more stressful, checking to see which car's a cop car etc.
One good thing about the UK (I think - someone correct me if I'm wrong) is that all yellow lights are exactly the same time... it can be annoying for high speed junctions, but at least it's consistent. I can't imagine how annoying not knowing how long a yellow will hold.
I do about 100,000 miles a year... I'm an HGV driver, though I don't always drive big trucks.
Firstly, you're born into your society. Tough shit. As soon as you bawl as you're exiting your mother's vagina, you're within the society.
Secondly, your society allowed you to be born. Without their policies, and their culture, you would not be here.
Thirdly, you've got it good compared to most people on this planet, because of your society. If you didn't, you wouldn't be posting here.
All that being said, there's no reason not to try to change your society for the better. However, curling up into a ball and complaining about those who are kicking you down should generally be reserved for those who this occurs to literally.
Everyone has "Netiquette" now, it's just different rules... they're told how to behave, and if they fail they get dropped.... same as before. People forget, back in the old days there were griefers all around... they just got shut down more effectively, and it was more effective when a community self censored. Admittedly it took more technical skill back then to communicate, which may be part of the difference.
All they have to do is show up at the handful of ISP's in the country with rifles and tell them to cut you off. No connection to your house, no internet for you.
I'm personally very wary about individual cases inciting revolt.
Firstly, the revolutionaries in Libya have already committed acts of questionable legality and morality. Individual cases there have been worrying.
Secondly, individual incidents can often be blamed upon rogue individuals.
Thirdly, though I do not claim this has happened here, it is possible to stage individual events. Propaganda is massively effective.
However, the biggest problem I have with individual events that hit the news is that there are thousands that don't, that we are ignoring. Torture, violence, unjustified incarceration and repression are systematic in plenty of countries that we call our allies. Until recently we were happy to accept all these things with Syria (as one of a number of examples). It's only now that Syria is in crisis that we condemn their actions.
I would love it if Lady Gaga was responsible for my bank account. No, honestly, she'd probably do a better job than the current lot. I can see problems though...
Me : My identity got stolen! How did this happen?
Lady Gaga : Pa-pa Paparazzi.
I also find it a little weird that being Jewish is equated to "not wanting to conform", or "being quirky", or "shunning conventional wisdom" in TFS. As far as I know, he's not that freakish (in the context of celebrity, anyway). Some people were just racist morons when he was growing up.
UK gallons are about 4.5 litres iirc.... so 55 litres is about 12 gallons, and 400/12 = 33.3mpg, off the top of my head. Miles per litre would be a very strange unit, since you're mixing metric and imperial units in one calculation. I know it would make sense for us in the UK, but it would be useless to literally everyone else in the world. That being said, our mpg unit is pretty much useless to everone else in the world too, since our gallon is quite a bit different to the US gallon.
Cheers - it was a bargain, but is a little well used and tired. £3000, 175,000(!) miles. It had a couple of tiny rust bubbles ahead of rear wheels, which I had resprayed, and I'm slightly concerned with the gearbox. If that's fucked, hopefully I can get it done under "fit for use" consumer laws we have here for free, since I got it from a dealership. The rest seems solid enough, though it's got a different tyre in each corner, 3 of which are budgets:P, but I'm driving like a maniac to wear them out quick so I can change them (at least that's my excuse). I work at a tyre wholesaler, so I get tyres cheap, and the ones on the type-r are tiny little things (195 55 15), so pretty cheap even for branded.
The Type-R was the only Integra sold in the UK, so we don't have the same problem with fake ones. There are lots of Japanese imports too, but I'm guessing most of these are genuine R's... you don't transport a car half way around the world if it's not the real deal generally. We still use bhp here too... actually, metric power I hardly have a clue about... I know one of the widely used units is pretty close to bhp anyway.
Working from home increases energy usage in most cases. This is due solely to having to heat or cool many small residences rather than one large workplace, for a large proportion of the year. Honestly, although it seems anti-intuitive, working from home is _not_ a good thing overall enviromentally. It may improve people's lives, and it may reduce particulate emission in city centres, but overall it's a bad thing environmentally.
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In the natural world (strange choice of term, but I'll go with it), you have the right to kill your neighbour, and anyone else you like too. The "brotherhood of man" (another strange term... but anyway) was formed (partially) to prevent you doing all these nutjob things. Sorry, but just because you consider your rights over someone born into our society total and complete, doesn't mean we do.
If you're on a 6-hour flight, you will get more than just a few peanuts since it isn't reasonable to expect people to go without food that long.
Seriously? I realised on wednesday last week that I'd not eaten _anything_ for 48 hours. I had had a few sugary drinks though. That wasn't deliberate, and I know it's not healthy, but 6 hours? This was while doing a physical job too....
Our sensors _are_ pretty high precision, and very well integrated with our brain. They're also integrated well with each other. The three _big_ ones that are used in football would be sight, equilibrioception (balance), and proprioception (limb awareness), IMO (with touch and hearing playing lesser parts). Those 3 alone are very hard to replicate well in robotics, and combine into a complete package.
All that being said.... THIS makes me feel sick.
I don't know what to say, really.... journalists at the news of the world seem to have broken into the phone of a child who was killed, possibly hampering police investigations.
She apparently says : "It feels like a friend had just died, I'm so shocked, all of those decent, hardworking, uninvolved people out of a job - just like that."
I was going to throw a hate filled tirade on why "Sarah's law" is wrong on so many levels, and why this woman makes me so angry, but I won't.
The Star is a different paper, which has different editors and policies. The Sun may spew political nonsence, with a bit of softcore porn on the side. The Star doesn't even try for political nonsence - it's purely a softcore porn celebrity gossip rag, with maybe a couple of "political correctness gone mad" stories thrown in between.
The Daily Mail is a heap of vitriolic middle class nouveau riche self righteous shit, claiming to be higher brow than the gutter press, yet reporting upon exactly the same things, and attempting to keep the readers swaddled in a permanent state of fear.
Not that I'm defending the Sun.... but it's probably better than those two.
Also, I do agree with you, about the principle - constantly showing women half-naked just over the legal age is sending a message.
I don't know the law in Scotland. Anyway, since this about an English newspaper, it's a little irrellevent.
rants on about paedophiles on page 2 and shows a barely 16 girl baring her breasts on page 3.
To be fair, they don't. 16 and 17 year olds are still considered underage in terms of the child porn laws. You're allowed to fuck them of course, you just can't draw a sexually suggestive picture of them.
I wonder how you would feel if, in order to feed yourself, you had to hunt or grow your own food. Do you know how to do that? I sure don't.
Seriously? You don't know how to hunt or grow your own food? Ok... hunting requires decent hardware to do easily (which in the UK is a bit of a problem)... though my dog brings back rabbits pretty often anyway. Growing your own food, however, is astonishingly easy. You plant it, make sure it's watered, make sure it's weeded, and it produces nearly all of the time. You don't have to do anything else. It's not rocket science.
I will admit, like you though, that I don't hunt or grow all my food. It's much more efficient to have people who know what they are doing do the things they are doing well, rather than everyone doing everything in a mediocre fashion. That doesn't mean that there's some mystical art to growing food though - anyone can do it, albeit at lower efficiencies than large scale operations.
This Magic Roundabout in Hemel Hempstead is relatively well known in the UK... I've gone round it a few times in my articulated truck, and it requires a bit of concentration, because you always get cars trying to overtake/undertake when there isn't room. This link is probably my favourite, because of the interviews, and the presenter's charisma.
It also wastes more fuel than it save when it comes to semi trucks since the driver has to downshift more gears than coming to a complete stop thus running at much higher RPMs for longer periods of time and using more fuel than starting from a dead stop. I have driven trucks with MPG calculators and your average MPG going into roundabouts is much less than if you are at a dead stop and have to accelerate up to speed. As in roundabouts 0.75 MPG versus from a stop 1.8 MPG
Your MPG calculator is wrong. It doesn't matter how high your revs are if you're not using the gas... If you're in gear, and not touching the gas pedal, you are using zero gas. You have infinite MPG. If you are using the gas at high RPM, change up. I don't know how on earth you think slowing, then getting back up to speed could possibly use more gas than coming to a complete halt.... basic laws of thermodynamics suggest it's probably not the case.
ps. I am a truck driver.
You would be better served to carry a steel plate, pipe or bar than a magnet.
I love this solution... You buy a high price ultra light carbon bike, then strap a steel pipe to it to trigger traffic lights.
I don't know if this was deliberate, but I'll bite anyway. Gymnasium actually comes from ancient Greek.
(in both Windows and *nix, you have to create a new user account for it, but Windows is worst because most programs can't even be installed unless you're running as administrator)
I run as admin all the time on my Vista machine. I do this because :
Only I use it.
My sytem files are replaceable.
My user files are the most important to me.
It's way more convenient.
Running as a limited user on Windows does not protect your user files, obviously - you have full access to them. I've recently had a couple of malware attacks with firefox that use user priveledges only, and infiltrate via the browser.
I moniter my network traffic, I look at what is running (note - HijackThis and Malwarebytes failed to pick up the problem, though I do like both those programs... running an old Firefox probably didn't help).
I guess my point is that for people like me, with their own computer, the user data is the most important... and running as admin does not endanger that (in my case I think it helps in some ways... I can see what is running in my user space more easily). The only real problem with running as admin with a personal computer is the possibility it can get infected completely without the user's knowledge, and do harm to someone else.
I agree with the idea that capturing one group will result in a second group popping up, but the same is true with crime -- arresting people who commit $criminal_offense won't stop $criminal_offense from occurring.
It will to some degree.... but prevention is better than cure. For example, car theft in the UK has dropped to about 1/3 of what it was 10 years ago, due to better security. Now, we have boiler room scams and internet fraud to take its place.
I never ever, ever, never ever, ever (ever never), would buy anything off of someone who contacts me randomly out of the blue. I don't understand the mentality of it... even if the company calling/e-mailing/mailing me are legitimate, they're spending money on marketing which could be used better on service for their customers. That's _if_ they're legit...
Someone else still owns it. Period. It doesn't matter whether you like copyrights or not. It is insane to claim this case has anything to do with fair use. This is a blatant case of someone using a piece of art that he didn't own and just ASSUMING that the owner of the art wouldn't object.
It absolutely does depend on whether you like copyrights or not. If you don't like uber long copyrights, then this guy was in the right. If you _do_ like copyrights that last for multiple decades, growing to over a century, then this guy was in the wrong.
It wasn't plagiarised (afaik), so it's entirely about copyright. Using a piece of art that you don't "own" is entirely 100% fine... apart from copyright.
Fair use doesn't enter into this admittedly - fair use doesn't include commercial enterprises using copyrighted images for personal gain, funnily enough.
Basically, my point is that it's _all_ about whether you like (long) copyrights or not. Using a random image that had been around for decades, and had been used elsewhere without problems, is probably a poor idea given our current legal framework, but I don't think it's wrong.
I personally think that if rich countries dropped all subsidies and made corporate/political connections illegal, the world economy would go to shit...
For a while.
After everything had gone to shit, manufacturing industries would prosper, innovative industries (not patent industries) would prosper.
Ok... my point is that the "working man" in the west has a problem. His costs are way higher than that of those elsewhere. We don't need to concern ourself with charity - it's self-defeating at the moment. What the "working man" wants is a level playing field.
Subsidies are _only_ in place generally because higher living costs require them. (Note - I do realise they can be used as a political tool too). Without higher living costs, subsidies wouldn't be necessary. If living costs were even globally, there should be no subsidies.
We have all types in the UK, including bus lane cameras which are proper stupid in some instances. Numerous times I've had a camera bus lane on my side, and a bus attempting to overtake a loading vehicle on their side. I can't move over into the bus lane to let the bus coming the other way out, because I'll get a ticket. It's completely counterproductive... this is in London, too, so you can be sat in the same spot for minutes with the bus driver getting annoyed at you.
One of the newest things they've introduced is junction red lights activated by prior speed. ie a camera up the road clocks you at over the speed limit, and automatically switches the light to red in the junction ahead. Yet to see how these will pan out.
I've personally gone through red lights (carefully) to let emergency vehicles past, but only after I made sure there were no cameras. If there was a camera in that situation, I wouldn't, just because I can't be dealing with the hassle. I never jump reds (generally), because it makes driving so much more stressful, checking to see which car's a cop car etc.
One good thing about the UK (I think - someone correct me if I'm wrong) is that all yellow lights are exactly the same time... it can be annoying for high speed junctions, but at least it's consistent. I can't imagine how annoying not knowing how long a yellow will hold.
I do about 100,000 miles a year... I'm an HGV driver, though I don't always drive big trucks.
Seriously?
Firstly, you're born into your society. Tough shit. As soon as you bawl as you're exiting your mother's vagina, you're within the society.
Secondly, your society allowed you to be born. Without their policies, and their culture, you would not be here.
Thirdly, you've got it good compared to most people on this planet, because of your society. If you didn't, you wouldn't be posting here.
All that being said, there's no reason not to try to change your society for the better. However, curling up into a ball and complaining about those who are kicking you down should generally be reserved for those who this occurs to literally.
Everyone has "Netiquette" now, it's just different rules... they're told how to behave, and if they fail they get dropped.... same as before. People forget, back in the old days there were griefers all around... they just got shut down more effectively, and it was more effective when a community self censored. Admittedly it took more technical skill back then to communicate, which may be part of the difference.
All they have to do is show up at the handful of ISP's in the country with rifles and tell them to cut you off. No connection to your house, no internet for you.
Two words for you : Sattelite phones.
I'm personally very wary about individual cases inciting revolt.
Firstly, the revolutionaries in Libya have already committed acts of questionable legality and morality. Individual cases there have been worrying.
Secondly, individual incidents can often be blamed upon rogue individuals.
Thirdly, though I do not claim this has happened here, it is possible to stage individual events. Propaganda is massively effective.
However, the biggest problem I have with individual events that hit the news is that there are thousands that don't, that we are ignoring. Torture, violence, unjustified incarceration and repression are systematic in plenty of countries that we call our allies. Until recently we were happy to accept all these things with Syria (as one of a number of examples). It's only now that Syria is in crisis that we condemn their actions.
I would love it if Lady Gaga was responsible for my bank account. No, honestly, she'd probably do a better job than the current lot. I can see problems though...
Me : My identity got stolen! How did this happen?
Lady Gaga : Pa-pa Paparazzi.
I also find it a little weird that being Jewish is equated to "not wanting to conform", or "being quirky", or "shunning conventional wisdom" in TFS. As far as I know, he's not that freakish (in the context of celebrity, anyway). Some people were just racist morons when he was growing up.
UK gallons are about 4.5 litres iirc.... so 55 litres is about 12 gallons, and 400/12 = 33.3mpg, off the top of my head. Miles per litre would be a very strange unit, since you're mixing metric and imperial units in one calculation. I know it would make sense for us in the UK, but it would be useless to literally everyone else in the world. That being said, our mpg unit is pretty much useless to everone else in the world too, since our gallon is quite a bit different to the US gallon.
Cheers - it was a bargain, but is a little well used and tired. £3000, 175,000(!) miles. It had a couple of tiny rust bubbles ahead of rear wheels, which I had resprayed, and I'm slightly concerned with the gearbox. If that's fucked, hopefully I can get it done under "fit for use" consumer laws we have here for free, since I got it from a dealership. The rest seems solid enough, though it's got a different tyre in each corner, 3 of which are budgets :P, but I'm driving like a maniac to wear them out quick so I can change them (at least that's my excuse). I work at a tyre wholesaler, so I get tyres cheap, and the ones on the type-r are tiny little things (195 55 15), so pretty cheap even for branded.
The Type-R was the only Integra sold in the UK, so we don't have the same problem with fake ones. There are lots of Japanese imports too, but I'm guessing most of these are genuine R's... you don't transport a car half way around the world if it's not the real deal generally. We still use bhp here too... actually, metric power I hardly have a clue about... I know one of the widely used units is pretty close to bhp anyway.
Working from home increases energy usage in most cases. This is due solely to having to heat or cool many small residences rather than one large workplace, for a large proportion of the year. Honestly, although it seems anti-intuitive, working from home is _not_ a good thing overall enviromentally. It may improve people's lives, and it may reduce particulate emission in city centres, but overall it's a bad thing environmentally.