I can't see how this would be useful to build buildings with. How is this an advantage over bolting together a few sections of tubular forms for the columns and tossing in some rebar and concrete? Also, you'd still have to build support for the floors just like you would with traditional concrete. Not to mention having to haul and assemble a building-sized printer at the construction site.
Seems like it would be more useful for smaller, more complex items, rather than general construction.
I've also thought that this would be the best way to do it. After all, my city already has enough conduit run to every house to provide full duplex water service, and they manage to deliver that quite well.
Unfortunately, it would be really expensive to add this now that everything is all built up. New development doesn't really have any excuse.
This was my first thought, too... Wondering how long it would take every ISP in the country to put this testing traffic to the top of their QoS & traffic shaping priorities.
Carrying a pistol (especially if it has to be concealed) is NOT terribly comfortable most of the time (I know - I carry one pretty much ALL the time). Ask anyone who's licensed for concealed carry; I can almost guarantee they have a whole drawer full of holsters they've gone through trying to find a comfortable one.
If you would be so kind as to share how you know WHICH of those 24x7 hours I'll actually need the gun, I'd be MORE than happy to leave it locked up the rest of the time.
It doesn't matter what kind of country or area you live in. If you live in a "nice neighborhood," guess where the criminals come to find valuable stuff to burgle & rob?
Failing that, having it strapped to my body under my control at all times is the safest way to keep a loaded firearm accessible, especially if you have kids.
IMO, an unloaded defense gun is useless. A loaded one without a round chambered is only slightly better.
I don't have any kids around the house yet, so I leave my handgun loaded and chambered 24/7 (If I didn't, I'd need to mess with loading/chambering constantly, which would significantly increase the odds of an accident. I have a bullet trap that I use when chambering rounds, but less handling is better.). The AR has the bolt closed on an empty chamber, but with a loaded mag in the well.
When I do have kids, the only thing that will change is that they will move from their case/drawer to a safe (when I'm asleep), and to a retention holster (attached to my body and under my direct control) when I'm not. (The rifle, obviously, will have to stay in the safe)
In your case, carrying it with you in a retention holster would be your best bet, as well, because it's the only way to make it immediately available for use without any chance of your children getting into it.
Speaking as a third hiker/camper, if you that much of an issue with randomly scattered poo, I'd recommend you stay away from anywhere containing wildlife.
Anywhere that has a high enough concentration of humans to cause an issue either needs to provide facilities, or require that everything packed in is packed back out (including poo). Interestingly, even the places I've been that required strict "low impact" practices didn't require you to do anything more than the normal 6-8" hole for disposal of human waste. Keep the requisite distance away from camp sites, trails, and water, and there shouldn't be a problem. I don't really want even biodegradable plastic bags littering the place.
If you're looking for a serious hosting facility, then incident response should be one of the things you look at. If they haven't had an incident*, then you have no idea how they'll handle it when (not if!) one happens. They can hand you all the documentation in the world, but that can't speak to execution.
It would be much easier to suggest something reasonable if we knew what the impact was if the data couldn't be recovered, and also why the data needs to be kept. Are you keeping it for yourself? If you're just keeping it around in case the customer comes back for something, why not give it all to them and let THEM worry about it?
Flour is a bad example... everyone's situations are assuming some infinite source of flour that other people can tap to get into the market. Scalpers basically buy ALL available tickets, creating a monopoly. (You can't just go get more tickets and sell them cheaper) Last I checked, using a monopoly position in a harmful manner was illegal.
Actually, strict enforcement is easy; it's allowing stuff like "I can't go, so I want to give my tickets to a friend" while disallowing scalping that's hard.
Strict enforcement would just require a name (or names) at the time of purchase (which get printed on the ticket), and not allowing those tickets in if one of the named people isn't present in the group, easily verified by a gov't issued photo ID.
3000 "accesses" probably just means they looked at 30 pages with 100 images, scripts, and other elements that were all downloaded via separate requests/connections. But 3,727 is a better number to use when you're trying spin the journalists into villains.
Such an elaborate dance isn't necessary. If you have warrants out anywhere, any police department can arrest you and hold you for a set amount of time to allow the entity issuing the warrants to come collect you.
Actually, I don't think this is as clear cut as your example of banning a physical item. In that case it's obvious who is breaking the law: If the Florida resident comes to you, buys contraband, and takes it home, THEY are breaking the law. If you come into the state to them to sell it, YOU are breaking the law.
In the Internet case, it's not so clear. I would argue that they're coming to you buying stuff, and they are the ones responsible for taking it across the border, but you could even make the argument that whoever owns the physical wire/fibre that crosses the border is liable.
Two people might be able to do it quite easily... The "public" one is the one that stays in hiding somewhere, while the other one travels around.
The traveller has a laptop with wi-fi and and a cellular card. He can set up shop anywhere, and the "public" person can remote the laptop via the cell card and be online from anywhere. The searchers could be standing right next to the accomplice and not know it. Even if they suspect it, they can't do squat about it.
1. Create new and/or change pw on online accounts 2. Borrow someone else's cell who's in on it 3. Dad, you're retired... why not take a road trip? 3. Call dad's cell phone: "can you log in to X and make Y update for me?" 4. profit!
Now, if I had to go to work during that time, it could be problematic. There's a REAL challenge, since you don't know who in the company (of 100k+) might be playing on the opposition.
In the GP's defense, he didn't necessarily claim that *all* accidents that aren't your fault can be avoided. Obviously that's not the case. But it is true that the vast majority can be avoided or mitigated by a good, attentive driver.
Being stopped (or almost stopped) like you were is about the worst situation to be in, because you have almost no control of the situation. Even then: Was there a shoulder? If you stay in the right lane, and leave enough space in front of you when you stop, you might have been able to get out of the way. Leaving plenty of space in front of you instead of riding someone's bumper (at a light or stopped in traffic) means you won't be as likely to end up in a sandwich.
It all depends on how much effort you're willing to put into driving defensively.
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I can't see how this would be useful to build buildings with. How is this an advantage over bolting together a few sections of tubular forms for the columns and tossing in some rebar and concrete? Also, you'd still have to build support for the floors just like you would with traditional concrete. Not to mention having to haul and assemble a building-sized printer at the construction site.
Seems like it would be more useful for smaller, more complex items, rather than general construction.
I've also thought that this would be the best way to do it. After all, my city already has enough conduit run to every house to provide full duplex water service, and they manage to deliver that quite well.
Unfortunately, it would be really expensive to add this now that everything is all built up. New development doesn't really have any excuse.
It's too late. They've already banned common sense, apparently.
This was my first thought, too... Wondering how long it would take every ISP in the country to put this testing traffic to the top of their QoS & traffic shaping priorities.
Carrying a pistol (especially if it has to be concealed) is NOT terribly comfortable most of the time (I know - I carry one pretty much ALL the time). Ask anyone who's licensed for concealed carry; I can almost guarantee they have a whole drawer full of holsters they've gone through trying to find a comfortable one.
If you would be so kind as to share how you know WHICH of those 24x7 hours I'll actually need the gun, I'd be MORE than happy to leave it locked up the rest of the time.
It doesn't matter what kind of country or area you live in. If you live in a "nice neighborhood," guess where the criminals come to find valuable stuff to burgle & rob?
Failing that, having it strapped to my body under my control at all times is the safest way to keep a loaded firearm accessible, especially if you have kids.
IMO, an unloaded defense gun is useless. A loaded one without a round chambered is only slightly better.
I don't have any kids around the house yet, so I leave my handgun loaded and chambered 24/7 (If I didn't, I'd need to mess with loading/chambering constantly, which would significantly increase the odds of an accident. I have a bullet trap that I use when chambering rounds, but less handling is better.). The AR has the bolt closed on an empty chamber, but with a loaded mag in the well.
When I do have kids, the only thing that will change is that they will move from their case/drawer to a safe (when I'm asleep), and to a retention holster (attached to my body and under my direct control) when I'm not. (The rifle, obviously, will have to stay in the safe)
In your case, carrying it with you in a retention holster would be your best bet, as well, because it's the only way to make it immediately available for use without any chance of your children getting into it.
Speaking as a third hiker/camper, if you that much of an issue with randomly scattered poo, I'd recommend you stay away from anywhere containing wildlife.
Anywhere that has a high enough concentration of humans to cause an issue either needs to provide facilities, or require that everything packed in is packed back out (including poo). Interestingly, even the places I've been that required strict "low impact" practices didn't require you to do anything more than the normal 6-8" hole for disposal of human waste. Keep the requisite distance away from camp sites, trails, and water, and there shouldn't be a problem. I don't really want even biodegradable plastic bags littering the place.
Depends on who's doing the shopping.
If you're looking for a serious hosting facility, then incident response should be one of the things you look at. If they haven't had an incident*, then you have no idea how they'll handle it when (not if!) one happens. They can hand you all the documentation in the world, but that can't speak to execution.
* that they've admitted to
It would be much easier to suggest something reasonable if we knew what the impact was if the data couldn't be recovered, and also why the data needs to be kept. Are you keeping it for yourself? If you're just keeping it around in case the customer comes back for something, why not give it all to them and let THEM worry about it?
Flour is a bad example... everyone's situations are assuming some infinite source of flour that other people can tap to get into the market. Scalpers basically buy ALL available tickets, creating a monopoly. (You can't just go get more tickets and sell them cheaper) Last I checked, using a monopoly position in a harmful manner was illegal.
Actually, strict enforcement is easy; it's allowing stuff like "I can't go, so I want to give my tickets to a friend" while disallowing scalping that's hard.
Strict enforcement would just require a name (or names) at the time of purchase (which get printed on the ticket), and not allowing those tickets in if one of the named people isn't present in the group, easily verified by a gov't issued photo ID.
Next time set the SSID to inappropriate-or-embarrassing-site-they-visited-last-time.com :)
3000 "accesses" probably just means they looked at 30 pages with 100 images, scripts, and other elements that were all downloaded via separate requests/connections. But 3,727 is a better number to use when you're trying spin the journalists into villains.
Worse than that, it could actually cause some terrorism. Wanna snipe around some MPAA or RIAA parking lots?
Worse? I'm not quite getting how snipers in *AA parking lots would be making things WORSE...
I'd like to see them NOT ventilate the arena with a few tens of thousands of fans inside.
...had better get themselves in the registry. You're "controlling" the government, after all.
Such an elaborate dance isn't necessary. If you have warrants out anywhere, any police department can arrest you and hold you for a set amount of time to allow the entity issuing the warrants to come collect you.
Actually, I don't think this is as clear cut as your example of banning a physical item. In that case it's obvious who is breaking the law: If the Florida resident comes to you, buys contraband, and takes it home, THEY are breaking the law. If you come into the state to them to sell it, YOU are breaking the law.
In the Internet case, it's not so clear. I would argue that they're coming to you buying stuff, and they are the ones responsible for taking it across the border, but you could even make the argument that whoever owns the physical wire/fibre that crosses the border is liable.
Which means that having one of theirs in the slammer here *might* give us the possibility of doing a trade to get one of our own guys back home.
Not particularly likely, maybe, but probably worth keeping this guy alive.
Two people might be able to do it quite easily... The "public" one is the one that stays in hiding somewhere, while the other one travels around.
The traveller has a laptop with wi-fi and and a cellular card. He can set up shop anywhere, and the "public" person can remote the laptop via the cell card and be online from anywhere. The searchers could be standing right next to the accomplice and not know it. Even if they suspect it, they can't do squat about it.
Sort of a mobile "air gap"
Still...
1. Create new and/or change pw on online accounts
2. Borrow someone else's cell who's in on it
3. Dad, you're retired... why not take a road trip?
3. Call dad's cell phone: "can you log in to X and make Y update for me?"
4. profit!
Now, if I had to go to work during that time, it could be problematic. There's a REAL challenge, since you don't know who in the company (of 100k+) might be playing on the opposition.
No, no... just send it in a way that there IS no "upside down." Turn it into a binary format and fax a white page for 0 and a solid black one for a 1.
In the GP's defense, he didn't necessarily claim that *all* accidents that aren't your fault can be avoided. Obviously that's not the case. But it is true that the vast majority can be avoided or mitigated by a good, attentive driver.
Being stopped (or almost stopped) like you were is about the worst situation to be in, because you have almost no control of the situation. Even then: Was there a shoulder? If you stay in the right lane, and leave enough space in front of you when you stop, you might have been able to get out of the way. Leaving plenty of space in front of you instead of riding someone's bumper (at a light or stopped in traffic) means you won't be as likely to end up in a sandwich.
It all depends on how much effort you're willing to put into driving defensively.
... and think of intelligence as a threat.
Intelligent masses ARE a threat to the ruling class.
Except that your damn helium smog will make us all sound funny!