Actually, we already started on that. But I'm betting you either didn't recognize it when it happened, reject it because you're actually not so much in favor of protection from a tyrannical government, or you don't think the government is in fact already tyrannical.
"Show me where you're granted the right to make weapons"
Try and stop that. You will only find out it happened when it's too late for you.
In fact, making weapons yourself isn't well restricted. The obvious stuff such as fully automatic firearms are frowned upon and pretty much illegal, but making a real metal revolver isn't, so far as I can tell, illegal. Just difficult.
If I were interested in 3d printing firearms, I'd be best off including enough metal parts to make them detectable, just to keep the law away. Undetectable firearms aren't new or difficult, so this current controversy is only because it became practical for 'regular people' to do so. Just as the Internet began the process where you could actually look up public court records, leading to all sorts of changes to make those more private again.
This is the real problem - our government, realizing we can actually exercise our Constitutional rights, seeking ways to manage those sufficiently to keep us at bay. That's the fight, and it doesn't start with guns.
Sadly, I will never again knowingly or willingly apply for a job where running my own mail server (or web server) is a qualifier. I'm past that, I hope.
Yes, it is a pain, and has been for me since before 2000, I honestly don't remember the date I took it over.
In that time I've had one recipient that would not solve the problem preventing delivery, and they are a state tax agency. All the other issues were either mine or obvious to the other party and fixed.
And the state tax agency refuses to escalate the issue to their support teams, their support will not accept an external request, and well, they are the state. They don't have to care to fix anything.
Since the big ones are already virtualized, and anything you post to a service is also, upgrades are mostly done on the applicant side. Make your resume machine-readable, solve one bottleneck in your favor.
Yup. I actually have my personal domain mail on four different systems, two with excellent spam filtering, one just as an archive, and the original mail domain with reasonable spam filtering and IMAP/TLS/reverse DNS and all that trying to keep the worst away. Not entirely successful of course, but SMTP is still a vector for all sorts of crap.
"If a younger person has *all* the same knowledge and skills as you then maybe you're a slow learner. Otherwise, not so much."
God, that's funny.
Maybe, if you are the equal of the 'younger person', you've not just kept up, you've been running a race they just now entered. I dunno, but adding experience and current skills together gets me, what, a better employee? Assuming that the recruiter is looking for skills and not cheaper, and that's the value proposition dealt with constantly, even for the janitor/facilities management positions.
What? Those things would have been important to me no matter who president was. can't you just let go of the idea that whatever everybody else is thinking is wrong?
This year, New Year's Eve 2018, over 1,000 card were burned in celebration of something. Are you claiming there have been even 1,000 'mass murders' in the US this year?
Imagine my surprise that this began in the 90s, around Strasbourg apparently...
Reuters, reasonably reliable, offers some more insight. Many reasons, even insurance fraud. Apparently the term 'youths' isn't very precise.
But they do not refute the reality that car burnings are a New Years' celebration in some areas of France, and even for general frivolity or riots. At least France doesn't seem to suffer from the Friday Night Fights so common in other parts of the world. And there are in fact incidents of car burnings in Sweden, who knew?
Certainly since they remove 'Don't be evil' from their code of conduct.
Alphabet seems to have replaced that with "do the right thing", while Google itself still (so far as I can tell) retains this at the end of theirs:
"The updated version of Google’s code of conduct still retains one reference to the company’s unofficial motto—the final line of the document is still: “And remember don’t be evil, and if you see something that you think isn’t right – speak up!”"
And we know how well speaking up at Google works, whether it's your personal observation of how thing are, or why.
"If even 1/10th of all the bullshit spewed by US conservative media was true, the whole European continent would be utterly bankrupt, over run by barbarians and on fire."
Actually, the PIGS, massive Middle Eastern immigration, and car fires in France and elsewhere in Europe make your point less than obvious.
"You'd have a better argument if you weren't guilty of attacking Obama over an alleged fingerbowl incident in the UK"
- Huh. I didn't pay much attention to this. I forgot about it. Thanks for reminding me of his fallibility.
"Clinton over ordering Big Macs to eat in the Oval Office"
- Cool. But I didn't actually remember that either. If I were President, I would expect that Big Mac to be hot and fresh, much as former President Clinton expected, I'm sure.
"Carter for filling the Kitchens with Peanuts."
- Huh? Is this a trivia contest?
I'm arguing, and these would not and have not occurred to me as being pertinent.
"If Obama had had any difficulty with the phone system (which he didn't), you would be sobbing like a schoolgirl."
No, I wouldn't consider it significant, unless it became known that it impeded his performance of his duties... Then actually I would question either his choice of staff, or their competence in providing him with training or expertise. Wait, is that the same thing?
And to take your point to a logical conclusion, perhaps we should expect Google to be honest:
- Admit it manipulates search results for a variety of reasons. - That some of those reasons are not related to popularity, or fairness, or equal treatment. - That they do not make these decisions based on fairness or equal treatment, and so users should not expect that they will receive results or outcomes that are fair or based on equal treatment, and have no complaint. - And that Google will, if it chooses to, make decisions based on corporate, or perhaps management's personal opinions or beliefs, and may not disclose that they do in any specific circumstance or situation.
And we should, perhaps, expect other search engines, aggregators, and even media and social sites, to make similar statements.
Honesty would seem to be a fundamental value we could ask these businesses to demonstrate. Other businesses have succeeded and failed because of their adherence (or lack) to principles of honesty. There is nothing special about Internet businesses to me. Do you hold them to a different standard? Why?
"the facts about Trump... All these aspects of reality that mainstream media is willing to embrace, conservative media largely rejects."
Oh, dear. The mainstream media focuses not on the "the facts about Trump" but on their opinions, analyses, and actually start with reporting that is based not on fact but on provably false statements and assumptions.
And I'm not at all surprised this "the facts about Trump" meme is presented so quickly. This mantra is repeated by the mainstream media as if it is true, because, after all, they want it to be true.
If you're unable to find salient examples of my assertion that the mainstream media relies on "provably false statements and assumptions.", you are not, no, you are not even trying. And I cannot change that. There is no lack of sources for this, credible sources, some even nonpartisan. Go and look.
Complaining that I'm not making my point is actually a result of the mainstream media successfully burying, subverting, and discrediting such facts, and they are factual, based on Congressional testimony and federal agency data. Oh, there, a clue. Follow it or not.
"Very few outside the US think US conservative media outlets are reputable"
And one significant reason for this is the relentless and universal portrayal of US conservative media outlets as disreputable by the US Leftist media.
But that's not happening. Indeed, something of the opposite is happening.
For many topics, or behaviors, or beliefs, any criticism or even simple rejection is being punished as 'hate speech'. You cannot disagree with a wide variety of opinions without being shadowbanned or redirected, deplatformed, or simple filtered out, and the entities doing that may ignore your requests for explanation.
While it's popular to hang on to the old saws about how many people reject certain behaviors, and you know these since you referenced them,m it is indeed the new wave of 'inclusion' that is working effectively and uniformly to suppress opposing viewpoints.
It's as if the First Amendment is limited to that which obeys, supports, or promotes the 'social norms', except that, of course, it actually defends what is NOT part of 'social norms'. whether those are real, historical, imaginary, or a hoped-for future reality.
We are in this deep. Failure to stop the Internet censorship of contrary speech will at best fracture society, and at worst lead to real, physical conflict. It has actually already begun. Pay attention.
"What we don't have is a workable plan to actually build a real space craft."
Gee, unless you're looking for the massive leap from tin cans to clever devices, we don't in fact, have a workable plan. We have at least two.
All you need is tin cans. And systems, propulsion, resources, and daring. If you want a trip to the Moon to be as comfortable and risk free as your LA commute in a Tesla, you'll need a lot more, yes. But need? Nope.
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Actually, we already started on that. But I'm betting you either didn't recognize it when it happened, reject it because you're actually not so much in favor of protection from a tyrannical government, or you don't think the government is in fact already tyrannical.
And in 3, 2, 1...
Implicit. Inalienable.
Try harder.
"Show me where you're granted the right to make weapons"
Try and stop that. You will only find out it happened when it's too late for you.
In fact, making weapons yourself isn't well restricted. The obvious stuff such as fully automatic firearms are frowned upon and pretty much illegal, but making a real metal revolver isn't, so far as I can tell, illegal. Just difficult.
If I were interested in 3d printing firearms, I'd be best off including enough metal parts to make them detectable, just to keep the law away. Undetectable firearms aren't new or difficult, so this current controversy is only because it became practical for 'regular people' to do so. Just as the Internet began the process where you could actually look up public court records, leading to all sorts of changes to make those more private again.
This is the real problem - our government, realizing we can actually exercise our Constitutional rights, seeking ways to manage those sufficiently to keep us at bay. That's the fight, and it doesn't start with guns.
Sadly, I will never again knowingly or willingly apply for a job where running my own mail server (or web server) is a qualifier. I'm past that, I hope.
Yes, it is a pain, and has been for me since before 2000, I honestly don't remember the date I took it over.
In that time I've had one recipient that would not solve the problem preventing delivery, and they are a state tax agency. All the other issues were either mine or obvious to the other party and fixed.
And the state tax agency refuses to escalate the issue to their support teams, their support will not accept an external request, and well, they are the state. They don't have to care to fix anything.
Gmail works. I want my plumber more interested in solving my home plumbing problems than futzing with his email.
Same for my primary care physician, attorney, and wife, though not for plumbing problems specifically.
Since the big ones are already virtualized, and anything you post to a service is also, upgrades are mostly done on the applicant side. Make your resume machine-readable, solve one bottleneck in your favor.
Meatspace recruiters are just feeding software.
Yup. I actually have my personal domain mail on four different systems, two with excellent spam filtering, one just as an archive, and the original mail domain with reasonable spam filtering and IMAP/TLS/reverse DNS and all that trying to keep the worst away. Not entirely successful of course, but SMTP is still a vector for all sorts of crap.
"If a younger person has *all* the same knowledge and skills as you then maybe you're a slow learner. Otherwise, not so much."
God, that's funny.
Maybe, if you are the equal of the 'younger person', you've not just kept up, you've been running a race they just now entered. I dunno, but adding experience and current skills together gets me, what, a better employee? Assuming that the recruiter is looking for skills and not cheaper, and that's the value proposition dealt with constantly, even for the janitor/facilities management positions.
What? Those things would have been important to me no matter who president was. can't you just let go of the idea that whatever everybody else is thinking is wrong?
This year, New Year's Eve 2018, over 1,000 card were burned in celebration of something. Are you claiming there have been even 1,000 'mass murders' in the US this year?
Or are you just being provocative?
I have not been to Europe since the 70s. So I have to rely upon reporting.
In 2013 this was a thing
And in 2017, so was this
And then this year...
Imagine my surprise that this began in the 90s, around Strasbourg apparently...
Reuters, reasonably reliable, offers some more insight. Many reasons, even insurance fraud. Apparently the term 'youths' isn't very precise.
But they do not refute the reality that car burnings are a New Years' celebration in some areas of France, and even for general frivolity or riots. At least France doesn't seem to suffer from the Friday Night Fights so common in other parts of the world. And there are in fact incidents of car burnings in Sweden, who knew?
Certainly since they remove 'Don't be evil' from their code of conduct.
Alphabet seems to have replaced that with "do the right thing", while Google itself still (so far as I can tell) retains this at the end of theirs:
"The updated version of Google’s code of conduct still retains one reference to the company’s unofficial motto—the final line of the document is still: “And remember don’t be evil, and if you see something that you think isn’t right – speak up!”"
And we know how well speaking up at Google works, whether it's your personal observation of how thing are, or why.
"If even 1/10th of all the bullshit spewed by US conservative media was true, the whole European continent would be utterly bankrupt, over run by barbarians and on fire."
Actually, the PIGS, massive Middle Eastern immigration, and car fires in France and elsewhere in Europe make your point less than obvious.
Running for President of the United States requires an outsized ego. It cannot be any other way.
"You'd have a better argument if you weren't guilty of attacking Obama over an alleged fingerbowl incident in the UK"
- Huh. I didn't pay much attention to this. I forgot about it. Thanks for reminding me of his fallibility.
"Clinton over ordering Big Macs to eat in the Oval Office"
- Cool. But I didn't actually remember that either. If I were President, I would expect that Big Mac to be hot and fresh, much as former President Clinton expected, I'm sure.
"Carter for filling the Kitchens with Peanuts."
- Huh? Is this a trivia contest?
I'm arguing, and these would not and have not occurred to me as being pertinent.
"If Obama had had any difficulty with the phone system (which he didn't), you would be sobbing like a schoolgirl."
No, I wouldn't consider it significant, unless it became known that it impeded his performance of his duties... Then actually I would question either his choice of staff, or their competence in providing him with training or expertise. Wait, is that the same thing?
Majority of...?
You still do not know how US Presidential elections work? Perhaps you could, oh I dunno, learn?
"Recent example: Leaving the White House flag at full staff when every other flag in Washington DC was at half-mast for Senator McCain."
And returning it to half-staff, reported on Twitter at 12:46 PM, 27 Aug 2018.
Trump is also responsive.
Actually, I agree with you entirely.
And to take your point to a logical conclusion, perhaps we should expect Google to be honest:
- Admit it manipulates search results for a variety of reasons.
- That some of those reasons are not related to popularity, or fairness, or equal treatment.
- That they do not make these decisions based on fairness or equal treatment, and so users should not expect that they will receive results or outcomes that are fair or based on equal treatment, and have no complaint.
- And that Google will, if it chooses to, make decisions based on corporate, or perhaps management's personal opinions or beliefs, and may not disclose that they do in any specific circumstance or situation.
And we should, perhaps, expect other search engines, aggregators, and even media and social sites, to make similar statements.
Honesty would seem to be a fundamental value we could ask these businesses to demonstrate. Other businesses have succeeded and failed because of their adherence (or lack) to principles of honesty. There is nothing special about Internet businesses to me. Do you hold them to a different standard? Why?
"the facts about Trump... All these aspects of reality that mainstream media is willing to embrace, conservative media largely rejects."
Oh, dear. The mainstream media focuses not on the "the facts about Trump" but on their opinions, analyses, and actually start with reporting that is based not on fact but on provably false statements and assumptions.
And I'm not at all surprised this "the facts about Trump" meme is presented so quickly. This mantra is repeated by the mainstream media as if it is true, because, after all, they want it to be true.
If you're unable to find salient examples of my assertion that the mainstream media relies on "provably false statements and assumptions.", you are not, no, you are not even trying. And I cannot change that. There is no lack of sources for this, credible sources, some even nonpartisan. Go and look.
Complaining that I'm not making my point is actually a result of the mainstream media successfully burying, subverting, and discrediting such facts, and they are factual, based on Congressional testimony and federal agency data. Oh, there, a clue. Follow it or not.
"Very few outside the US think US conservative media outlets are reputable"
And one significant reason for this is the relentless and universal portrayal of US conservative media outlets as disreputable by the US Leftist media.
But that's not happening. Indeed, something of the opposite is happening.
For many topics, or behaviors, or beliefs, any criticism or even simple rejection is being punished as 'hate speech'. You cannot disagree with a wide variety of opinions without being shadowbanned or redirected, deplatformed, or simple filtered out, and the entities doing that may ignore your requests for explanation.
While it's popular to hang on to the old saws about how many people reject certain behaviors, and you know these since you referenced them,m it is indeed the new wave of 'inclusion' that is working effectively and uniformly to suppress opposing viewpoints.
It's as if the First Amendment is limited to that which obeys, supports, or promotes the 'social norms', except that, of course, it actually defends what is NOT part of 'social norms'. whether those are real, historical, imaginary, or a hoped-for future reality.
We are in this deep. Failure to stop the Internet censorship of contrary speech will at best fracture society, and at worst lead to real, physical conflict. It has actually already begun. Pay attention.
"What we don't have is a workable plan to actually build a real space craft."
Gee, unless you're looking for the massive leap from tin cans to clever devices, we don't in fact, have a workable plan. We have at least two.
All you need is tin cans. And systems, propulsion, resources, and daring. If you want a trip to the Moon to be as comfortable and risk free as your LA commute in a Tesla, you'll need a lot more, yes. But need? Nope.
" the moon (plus the sun and stars) were made in one day"
And yet, amazingly, it's still there, waiting to be explored.
And you, well, you're still there...