If we can come up with technology that removes tattoos, permanently and easily, it will eradicate the tattoo blight.
Tattoos are a cry out for something permanent. "I have important messages to send, and it is PERMANENT! I will ALWAYS feel this way." Which leads to ugly blight patches on middle aged skin.
Of course, it could just push the self-mutilation envelope even further, i.e. piercing and radical body mod. We haven't gotten to 'Dr. Adder' yet.
Or ask Sunni's how racist Shittites are agaisnt them...
Sunnis and Shiites are schismatic muslims, not racists. You've illustrated how meaningless the term 'racist' has become.
In fact, people who worry incessantly about 'racism' are people who've finely tuned their racism. They're generally some of the most racist people in a culture.
In the spirit of egalitarianism UIDs didn't even used to get displayed on Slashdot.
It wasn't until (the *horror* of it) people started forging Bruce Perens' name on posts that they switched it so that UIDs are displayed. It was a dark day.
Yes, I am, because I find the idea that absolute freedom of speech does or should trump all other rights, freedoms and responsibilities to be dangerous, both in principle and in practice.
All of life is dangerous. What are these 'other rights' that are at risk. We need to discuss this further, obviously. Ideally without all the expensive words cluttering things up. Give an example of what you mean.
They charge at night, if you happen to own your dwelling and have a garage to base the charger out of. Or, I suppose, your landlord will smile and say "of course" when asked to put charging stations at each spot in the parking lot. For free! Or better yet, the taxpayers can pay for it!
And electricity is free, which is why there is no need for an attendant? I think if I lived in Japan, I would buy an old jalopy car that run on gasoline, load it up with batteries to charge at the 'free' charging station and park the old jalopy next to my house. Free electricity for my house!
There are bound physical copies of stuff like 'A Quarter Century of UNIX' that document Vint's work enough for him to survive posterity. And various 'Internet History' books.
It's people with their works of fiction stored on dicey old Commodore 64 diskettes who are screwed. Or worse: Macintosh 800K floppies. Does Apple even acknowledge they ever existed?
A long and twisty conversion path. Just like with Microsoft. You need Word for Windows 2.0 to read the Word for MS-DOS files. You need Word for Windows 6.0 (Office 4.3) to read the Winword2 files. You need Office 97 to read the Office 4.3 files. It's even worse with Apple, because they can.
I'm guessing 40 years from now nobody will care about COBOL software from the 1970s but people will still want to play games from the 1980s.
Again: toys. All you care about is toys, it seems. And you're probably wrong. People who play games from the 1980s are a minority, like people who have a rec-room in the basement decorated in the style of the 1950's. They don't keep hardly anything actually from the 50's, just the 'best' stuff that people remember after culling almost everything out.
The only people who will care about COBOL are people concerned with actual historical records. Which isn't nostalgia.
You would probably have trouble with EBCDIC encoded stuff. Which is definitely NOT exotic, it was the mainstream in a large segment of computing 30 years ago. Of course you excluded 'Mainframes' which makes things so easy: there wasn't a hell of a lot else 30 years ago. Everything CP/M that was ever coded would probably fit on one DVD-R.
Last week I made a fresh copy of my 'archive' of everything computer related from my 20's. I copied everything off the 5 DVD-R disks that I burned in the early 00's onto a USB hard drive.
What was on the 5 DVD-Rs was what I copied then off about 30 CDR disks.
What was on the earliest few of the CDR disks was what I had copied there off DC2120 tape cartridges.
There is even one of the DVDs arranged with folders called 'CD4, CD4, CD6' and some of the CD folders have subfolders with names like 'Tape7, Tape8, Tape8.;
I might still have the original CDs in a cakebox somewhere, the DS2120 tapes are long gone.
I still have all the Windows 1.0 apps that I downloaded off BBSes back in the day. I still have every version of PC-DOS. I still have Microsoft Word 5.0 and all the Borland programming languages and all that stuff stored away. Linux install sets with 0.99.x kernel versions. And all my personal files, email, etc.
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If we can come up with technology that removes tattoos, permanently and easily, it will eradicate the tattoo blight.
Tattoos are a cry out for something permanent. "I have important messages to send, and it is PERMANENT! I will ALWAYS feel this way." Which leads to ugly blight patches on middle aged skin.
Of course, it could just push the self-mutilation envelope even further, i.e. piercing and radical body mod. We haven't gotten to 'Dr. Adder' yet.
Home Computers were never considered playthings for the rich. They were playthings for the nerds. In the 70's that didn't make one rich.
Elon Musk fumes are considered a delicacy here.
What does the 'Stupid' stand for.
It's 'Star Trek Unboxed Parts' something or other, right? Like the stuff on that Magic The Gathering Exchange?
Perhaps he teaches English in Texas to Somali refugees.
Or ask Sunni's how racist Shittites are agaisnt them...
Sunnis and Shiites are schismatic muslims, not racists. You've illustrated how meaningless the term 'racist' has become.
In fact, people who worry incessantly about 'racism' are people who've finely tuned their racism. They're generally some of the most racist people in a culture.
Fuck that. We're all people (not soylent green).
In the spirit of egalitarianism UIDs didn't even used to get displayed on Slashdot.
It wasn't until (the *horror* of it) people started forging Bruce Perens' name on posts that they switched it so that UIDs are displayed. It was a dark day.
Thanks, Bruce.
There's that whole Snowden thing, for instance. The Guardian never should have printed any of it. It's just clickbait.
All of life is dangerous. What are these 'other rights' that are at risk. We need to discuss this further, obviously. Ideally without all the expensive words cluttering things up. Give an example of what you mean.
Most rural housing is, if anything, less ostentatious than urban housing.
People don't want to live crowded together in high rise housing.
Well, if they do, let them. Don't force them.
The Peaceful Atom wins again.
I remember the jingle about "Electricity it's Penny Cheap!"
Reddy Kilowatt sung it on TV.
Makes me wonder if WW2 could be won today with so many selfish wimps unwilling to make any sacrifice for the greater good...
Probably not, if the average Soviet Foot Soldier knew what a shitty deal he was in for.
Maybe YOU should offer up a subsidy like that. How big is your bank account?
I live along a rural county highway, about a mile from a prestigious small private college.
Cars whiz by all the time. I bet it's safer living here than where you are.
There is no crime here on my street.
The lawyers are already waiting in their cars out on the street.
They called the Insurance Company.
You think people who can afford to get the $10,000 subsidy for a Tesla are going to be willing to spend an hour eating at a truck stop?
Here in Indiana, I can buy a vintage Stanley Steamer if I want a coal fired vehicle. Or I can buy an electric car and plug it into the grid.
They charge at night, if you happen to own your dwelling and have a garage to base the charger out of. Or, I suppose, your landlord will smile and say "of course" when asked to put charging stations at each spot in the parking lot. For free! Or better yet, the taxpayers can pay for it!
And electricity is free, which is why there is no need for an attendant? I think if I lived in Japan, I would buy an old jalopy car that run on gasoline, load it up with batteries to charge at the 'free' charging station and park the old jalopy next to my house. Free electricity for my house!
There are bound physical copies of stuff like 'A Quarter Century of UNIX' that document Vint's work enough for him to survive posterity. And various 'Internet History' books.
It's people with their works of fiction stored on dicey old Commodore 64 diskettes who are screwed. Or worse: Macintosh 800K floppies. Does Apple even acknowledge they ever existed?
A long and twisty conversion path. Just like with Microsoft. You need Word for Windows 2.0 to read the Word for MS-DOS files. You need Word for Windows 6.0 (Office 4.3) to read the Winword2 files. You need Office 97 to read the Office 4.3 files. It's even worse with Apple, because they can.
You don't even have to reach that deep. You're fucked if you have stuff for the AT&T 6300, which was a MS-DOS machine. Or an early Sanyo PC Clone.
Again: toys. All you care about is toys, it seems. And you're probably wrong. People who play games from the 1980s are a minority, like people who have a rec-room in the basement decorated in the style of the 1950's. They don't keep hardly anything actually from the 50's, just the 'best' stuff that people remember after culling almost everything out.
The only people who will care about COBOL are people concerned with actual historical records. Which isn't nostalgia.
You would probably have trouble with EBCDIC encoded stuff. Which is definitely NOT exotic, it was the mainstream in a large segment of computing 30 years ago. Of course you excluded 'Mainframes' which makes things so easy: there wasn't a hell of a lot else 30 years ago. Everything CP/M that was ever coded would probably fit on one DVD-R.
Last week I made a fresh copy of my 'archive' of everything computer related from my 20's. I copied everything off the 5 DVD-R disks that I burned in the early 00's onto a USB hard drive.
What was on the 5 DVD-Rs was what I copied then off about 30 CDR disks.
What was on the earliest few of the CDR disks was what I had copied there off DC2120 tape cartridges.
There is even one of the DVDs arranged with folders called 'CD4, CD4, CD6' and some of the CD folders have subfolders with names like 'Tape7, Tape8, Tape8.;
I might still have the original CDs in a cakebox somewhere, the DS2120 tapes are long gone.
I still have all the Windows 1.0 apps that I downloaded off BBSes back in the day. I still have every version of PC-DOS. I still have Microsoft Word 5.0 and all the Borland programming languages and all that stuff stored away. Linux install sets with 0.99.x kernel versions. And all my personal files, email, etc.