The economics have to account for the alternative, which is thousands of years of storage if the waste is not reprocessed. That makes the whole cost equation change significantly. Unfortunately there has to be a political will to approach the issue in this fashion.
I like having a watch with hands. Just last week when someone asked me what time it was I told them it was about 23 minutes to 1. Time isn't digital, and the circular heuristic is very convenient to work with.
Watches with hands have probably gone 'out of style' which matters a lot to people who worry about shit like that. Fortunately we're on Slashdot.
As a professional photographer I deal with this all the time, and MOST people don't give a shit about someone pointing a camera at them. Some do, and if they want to get uppity about it then guess what- they can call the cops if they don't like it and be told to go piss up a rope.
I would hope that at least part of the time when you tell someone to 'piss up a rope' they spend the rest of their day actively trying to mess up your 'professional photography' shots. After all, you're in public, and if they stand in the way of your camera lens, it's their right to do so. You tell people 'fuck off' and believe me, they'll fuck off all over you.
I don't know where this idea of every point of view being equal has arisen from, but it's fucking terrible in its ignorance.
In another setting, it manifests itself in the Fairness Doctrine, which some political entities try to use to take Rush Limbaugh off the air. The idea is that the airspace is a public resource to be used for the public 'good,' all ideas should be explored, "I will defend to my death your right to say so" (followed by more picketing in safe, first world countries), etc. etc.
Simpson still makes good meters. Some that are better than the average Fluke. Fluke is the no-brainer brand to pick. Like a Cisco router or a Logitech mouse.
There are other brands as good or better than Fluke. Fluke has been riding on reputation for a long time now. With today's technology advances it isn't anywhere near as hard to make a good durable multimeter as it was when Fluke made their name in DMMs in the early 80's.
Fluke's time is past, for general purpose test equipment. They still make some of the best higher-end equipment and calibration gear, but that's an entire different category than portable DMMs.
My Fluke 8060 is tan. But its also older than a significant percentage of the people who hang out on Slashdot. It's better than any of the cheap new Fluke meters, too. Fluke made their name with meters like the 8060 and at the moment they're in the cash-in-your-brand part of the business cycle.
What's scary is that you sound like you're angry that this cheaper meter looks just like your Fluke. If you had a clue at all, you'd know that the cheap meter has lower grade insides in it, and that you're in no danger at all for having spent a lot more for your Fluke.
Translation: that some of the people at the Maker Faire can't tell your Fluke from a cheap knockoff shouldn't matter to you. We hope, anyway.
Not likely. There are many yellow colored multimeters out there. And Radio Shack doesn't rebrand high end equipment, they rebrand low and medium-end equipment. Putting a Radio Shack brand on a Fluke multimeter would degrade it and reduce what they could sell it for.
Paid cross licensing in order to make a yellow multimeter? Has the whole world gone insane, or is Slashdot just over-infested with modern-IT people who think in weird terms like that?
The yellow/orange colored Fluke gear is junk, anyways. The crap meter the maintenance guy carries around. The good Fluke stuff is still in tan or teal colored enclosures
John Fluke must be rolling in his grave. Then again, its been a long time since differential voltmeters were in common use. I've never seen one with a yellow painted cabinet.
The 'sticking your head into another world' idea made me think of a cool app. It wouldn't be a long immersive experience, but somebody should code up a simulation of being beheaded with a guillotine. Your view would ''roll' after the head separating event.
My other comment is, as any black lab could advise you, when you stick your head out into this other world, make sure traffic coming the other way doesn't shear it off.
Believe me, the food you describe is literally rooted in place. If there's major civil unrest the people who discover the supermarket is empty will quickly find your garden.
The way I read it, they came out with this new strain of corn that prevented the pest from infesting it. The pest adapted. So we are no worse than before, but no better than before. What is the horrible crime that has been committed? The vendors of the new strain off corn just put themselves out of business by overselling.
I can see why the scientists who came up with the 'fix' would have bruised egos, from thinking their 'breakthrough' hasn't saved humanity, but butthurt scientists are nothing new. Humanity often routes around the scientists' miraculous fixes, cuz human populations are not scientifically controllable. Scientists who want complete control should stick to populations of white mice.
I remember BBSes. We got together several Sundays a month to play Softball. And everybody else on the board was somebody local who you could actually meet in person if you chose.
Actually, the walls that keep others out are the ones that define who we are and who the others are. Degrees of separation are necessary for defining things. No, we are not one big organism. No, what is yours is does not belong to everyone.
And go ahead for yourself if you want, but please don't refer to my pursuits and interests as 'hobbies.' That's so quaint, and plays so nicely into the idea that The System defines what is important and we can dabble away in our free time at trivialities.
If you wanna feel weak and powerless, just go out into a crowd. No, don't all chant the same thing in that crowd. Bleating won't solve anything.
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Now if we can just get the Google Glass enthusiasts to read the part about the Gargoyles in Snow Crash...
The economics have to account for the alternative, which is thousands of years of storage if the waste is not reprocessed. That makes the whole cost equation change significantly. Unfortunately there has to be a political will to approach the issue in this fashion.
I like having a watch with hands. Just last week when someone asked me what time it was I told them it was about 23 minutes to 1. Time isn't digital, and the circular heuristic is very convenient to work with.
Watches with hands have probably gone 'out of style' which matters a lot to people who worry about shit like that. Fortunately we're on Slashdot.
Who asked them to remove the obstruction, and why?
I would hope that at least part of the time when you tell someone to 'piss up a rope' they spend the rest of their day actively trying to mess up your 'professional photography' shots. After all, you're in public, and if they stand in the way of your camera lens, it's their right to do so. You tell people 'fuck off' and believe me, they'll fuck off all over you.
You're right. Iran projects extreme violence inward at it's own people. Or at anybody foolish enough to be within their borders.
That sort of thing results in a very 'peaceful' nation.
I don't know where this idea of every point of view being equal has arisen from, but it's fucking terrible in its ignorance.
In another setting, it manifests itself in the Fairness Doctrine, which some political entities try to use to take Rush Limbaugh off the air. The idea is that the airspace is a public resource to be used for the public 'good,' all ideas should be explored, "I will defend to my death your right to say so" (followed by more picketing in safe, first world countries), etc. etc.
Brilliant retort.
I thought Macs had Altivec Units in them, and Mac users only used Pentiums to heat their coffee.
Oh? The buzzword right now is 'Retina'?
Peter Norton is a bitmap. On a box. Hasn't that always been what he is?
Yikes, I looked, and I still have nu.exe on my C: drive. Not in the Path any longer though.
Simpson still makes good meters. Some that are better than the average Fluke. Fluke is the no-brainer brand to pick. Like a Cisco router or a Logitech mouse.
There are other brands as good or better than Fluke. Fluke has been riding on reputation for a long time now. With today's technology advances it isn't anywhere near as hard to make a good durable multimeter as it was when Fluke made their name in DMMs in the early 80's.
Fluke's time is past, for general purpose test equipment. They still make some of the best higher-end equipment and calibration gear, but that's an entire different category than portable DMMs.
My Fluke 8060 is tan. But its also older than a significant percentage of the people who hang out on Slashdot. It's better than any of the cheap new Fluke meters, too. Fluke made their name with meters like the 8060 and at the moment they're in the cash-in-your-brand part of the business cycle.
What's scary is that you sound like you're angry that this cheaper meter looks just like your Fluke. If you had a clue at all, you'd know that the cheap meter has lower grade insides in it, and that you're in no danger at all for having spent a lot more for your Fluke.
Translation: that some of the people at the Maker Faire can't tell your Fluke from a cheap knockoff shouldn't matter to you. We hope, anyway.
Not likely. There are many yellow colored multimeters out there. And Radio Shack doesn't rebrand high end equipment, they rebrand low and medium-end equipment. Putting a Radio Shack brand on a Fluke multimeter would degrade it and reduce what they could sell it for.
Paid cross licensing in order to make a yellow multimeter? Has the whole world gone insane, or is Slashdot just over-infested with modern-IT people who think in weird terms like that?
The yellow/orange colored Fluke gear is junk, anyways. The crap meter the maintenance guy carries around. The good Fluke stuff is still in tan or teal colored enclosures
John Fluke must be rolling in his grave. Then again, its been a long time since differential voltmeters were in common use. I've never seen one with a yellow painted cabinet.
The 'sticking your head into another world' idea made me think of a cool app. It wouldn't be a long immersive experience, but somebody should code up a simulation of being beheaded with a guillotine. Your view would ''roll' after the head separating event.
My other comment is, as any black lab could advise you, when you stick your head out into this other world, make sure traffic coming the other way doesn't shear it off.
Apparently only people who are so steeped in the concept that they've totally bought into it are qualified to have an opinion.
Believe me, the food you describe is literally rooted in place. If there's major civil unrest the people who discover the supermarket is empty will quickly find your garden.
The way I read it, they came out with this new strain of corn that prevented the pest from infesting it. The pest adapted. So we are no worse than before, but no better than before. What is the horrible crime that has been committed? The vendors of the new strain off corn just put themselves out of business by overselling.
I can see why the scientists who came up with the 'fix' would have bruised egos, from thinking their 'breakthrough' hasn't saved humanity, but butthurt scientists are nothing new. Humanity often routes around the scientists' miraculous fixes, cuz human populations are not scientifically controllable. Scientists who want complete control should stick to populations of white mice.
There are telephones out there in space that need sanitizing.
I remember BBSes. We got together several Sundays a month to play Softball. And everybody else on the board was somebody local who you could actually meet in person if you chose.
Secure Boot doesn't ask anything. It just says No.
Actually, the walls that keep others out are the ones that define who we are and who the others are. Degrees of separation are necessary for defining things. No, we are not one big organism. No, what is yours is does not belong to everyone.
And go ahead for yourself if you want, but please don't refer to my pursuits and interests as 'hobbies.' That's so quaint, and plays so nicely into the idea that The System defines what is important and we can dabble away in our free time at trivialities.
If you wanna feel weak and powerless, just go out into a crowd. No, don't all chant the same thing in that crowd. Bleating won't solve anything.