I like Israel just fine, but their experience has shown that selectively killing your enemies really doesn't do shit to discourage new recruits from signing up. You're inferring some implications which aren't present in my comment.
Similarly, the War-On-Drugs(tm) has been hugely successful if the intended goal was to make drug use taboo and allow the government to suppress and control those who engage in it. It's been a miserable failure if the goal was to keep the average person from having access to drugs, or to discourage people from becoming dealers. That's the only parallel I was trying to draw; whether we're talking about drugs or terrorist cells, you're not going to discourage people from taking part through selective targeting. If you actually want to reduce their numbers, you need to change the underlying social causes, or you need to engage in an over-the-top campaign which is completely disproportionate in it's response.
In other words, most of your comment has nothing at all to do with what was being discussed:)
Dunno what to tell you; works fine for me. Sure you're not just running it on really old hardware?
To be completely fair, I do seem to be having a weird effect with the newest update, where the videos load full-screen in the background and I have to minimize the browser in order to see them. It's annoying, but not exactly a critical flaw. Other than that, flash works as well when running on my Ubuntu partition as it does when I boot into Windows 7.
Will you stop grabbing my balls at the airport now?
No. It's been my lifelong dream to fondle the sweaty nutsack of an overweight dungeons-and-dragons playing basement-dweller. You can't ask me to give up that right!
The difference is that drugs are big business. Wherever there's a fortune to be made, there will always be plenty of willing participants. But when you're looking at living in fear of drone strikes, with your leaders dying ever few months, recruiting gets harder.
If the Israeli experience of the last few decades hasn't shown you how ass-backwards this kind of thinking is, I don't think there's anything that will get it through your skull....
I care, but mostly because the new unity interface is goddamn retarded. I installed the beta a couple weeks back. Gave it a couple hours to try and get used to it, and just couldn't. I could see it working well for a tablet, but for my laptop it's completely useless.
The only good thing is that they give you the option to switch back to gnome, but metacity seems to be completely broken for me, and hardware acceleration no longer works. As far as I'm concerned, Ubuntu 11.04 is a step backwards. Now I'm looking at either switching to XFCE for the interface, or maybe ditching Ubuntu entirely and going with a different flavor.
Space travel - yet another thing we'll be outsourcing to China...
China has already admitted that they can't do it as cheaply as SpaceX. Now, it's possible that SpaceX is producing unrealistic cost estimates, but for the time being it looks as if private industry could at the very least compete with the Chinese space program, if not surpass them in cost-effectiveness. If that changes, yeah, we might have to outsource to them, but there's no reason to be such a pessimist yet.
I'd rather bet it's because the Middle East became "an unreliable supplier" in a way CIA and whatever "war on concepts" can no longer fix.
You'd lose that bet. Oil-sands and shale-oil might be expensive compared to traditional oil supplies, but they're still cheaper than growing "biofuel". Canada and the US have more oil than the middle east, if you're willing to pay $20-ish a barrel to exploit it. And if you can get the greenies off your back.
The silliness enters the picture when you consider how many non-terrorists own such watches, not when you just look at all the suspected or actual terrorists who do.
Well, yes, that would be silly. Why would you want to do something like that?
A lot of people drive a blue For Taurus, so I suppose it would be unreasonable for police to put out an APB stating 4 suspects in a blue Ford Taurus had just robbed a bank at the intersection of X Street and Y Avenue.
That's just retarded. You can buy a new deck for $100 these days, or get a fancier model and have it installed for $300. That's the first thing I did after buying my last vehicle - the stock decks are usually shit anyway. You don't make a $30,000 purchasing decision based on the availability of a $300 part. Or,at least, a rational person doesn't. If you have any sense, you'll select the vehicle that best suits you needs based on fuel efficiency, cabin/cargo room, power/handling, reliability metrics and warranty, and general "feel", then buy the base model with the least amount of gee-whiz features you can find and upgrade whatever you want with after-market parts.
And the new person (the customer) is less well practiced/skilled at the activity than the old person (checkout clerk). If anything, the expert is so good at the job that they're mentally on auto-pilot anyway, so you could even argue it replaces a (semi-) machine with a person, making it a technological regression. (Ah, the joys of externalizing costs.) It's sort of like they're un-invented the assembly line by selling assemble-it-yourself kits.
Yeah, I said the same thing when they made slavery illegal. How am I supposed to make coffee and cook breakfast as efficiently as my boy did? Talk about technological regression!
I was always under the assumption that a uniformed officer knocks on your door and hands you a slip of paper to escort you "downtown." Sure there are cases that may warrant a full on raid (expected high power weapons, drugs, etc.) but busting down the doors for porn?
It's generally done in order to prevent the destruction of evidence. An "officer with a slip of paper" is the equivalent of saying "please wipe all your drives before coming to the door". Might as well just give them a goatse picture instead of a warrant. Hell, the suspect doesn't even need to wipe the data - unless he's an idiot chances are he has an encrypted volume and all he needs to do is just shut off the computer. Unless you get him while it's powered on, you may very well never recover any evidence from his computer.
Or they will question you first, depending on their level of intelligence...
Yeah: the more intelligent ones will arrest you first, so that you don't have a chance to flee. The naive idiots will just drop by for a chat over tea and crumpets.
How about this: money only has utility in the context of society, for the exchange of goods or services.
Yes, but that's an entirely different statement.
Other materials can have utility to an individual separated from society, which money cannot.
Again, yes, but the reverse is also true; money has a utility which hoarding of goods and/or barter do not. Now, if you're assuming that all societies are about to fail, then I can understand why you might go off on the "money is useless" rant; in that case the most valuable thing you could own is guns and ammo.
No, you don't get to pass off your ignorance onto me. Money isn't "a piece of cloth"; money is a concept. It can be represented by paper, cloth, metal, crystals, plastic, or electrons. The exchange medium is irrelevant. Money has an intrinsic value by definition; if it didn't have value, it wouldn't be money. You can argue that the value is arbitrary or subjective, but that would be true of anything since "value" is inherently subjective. It's a stupid argument made by silly people, and is of no value to anyone.
They were represented by their governments (USA and UK), and have done absolutely not a thing in space without their government's sign-off.
So Virgin Galactic suddenly closes shop in the US and reopens as a corporation based out of Nauru. And the GDP of Nauru quadruples overnight. Problem solved.
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I like Israel just fine, but their experience has shown that selectively killing your enemies really doesn't do shit to discourage new recruits from signing up. You're inferring some implications which aren't present in my comment.
Similarly, the War-On-Drugs(tm) has been hugely successful if the intended goal was to make drug use taboo and allow the government to suppress and control those who engage in it. It's been a miserable failure if the goal was to keep the average person from having access to drugs, or to discourage people from becoming dealers. That's the only parallel I was trying to draw; whether we're talking about drugs or terrorist cells, you're not going to discourage people from taking part through selective targeting. If you actually want to reduce their numbers, you need to change the underlying social causes, or you need to engage in an over-the-top campaign which is completely disproportionate in it's response.
In other words, most of your comment has nothing at all to do with what was being discussed :)
Dunno what to tell you; works fine for me. Sure you're not just running it on really old hardware?
To be completely fair, I do seem to be having a weird effect with the newest update, where the videos load full-screen in the background and I have to minimize the browser in order to see them. It's annoying, but not exactly a critical flaw. Other than that, flash works as well when running on my Ubuntu partition as it does when I boot into Windows 7.
Will you stop grabbing my balls at the airport now?
No. It's been my lifelong dream to fondle the sweaty nutsack of an overweight dungeons-and-dragons playing basement-dweller. You can't ask me to give up that right!
The difference is that drugs are big business. Wherever there's a fortune to be made, there will always be plenty of willing participants. But when you're looking at living in fear of drone strikes, with your leaders dying ever few months, recruiting gets harder.
If the Israeli experience of the last few decades hasn't shown you how ass-backwards this kind of thinking is, I don't think there's anything that will get it through your skull ....
What freedoms have been taken away?
The freedom to pointlessly bitch and complain about the government on online forums.
Oh, wait ...
Do you really expect them to install flash and java on a linux machine?
Let's see ... boot up Ubuntu ... launch Firefox ... go to youtube .... click on "install adobe flash" .... click "I agree" ... done!
Shit, yeah, there's no way grandma could do that. She still thinks the mouse is a microphone.
No, after you reboot it defaults to unity. But it leaves gnome installed so it's an easy switch - you just select gnome on your login screen.
I care, but mostly because the new unity interface is goddamn retarded. I installed the beta a couple weeks back. Gave it a couple hours to try and get used to it, and just couldn't. I could see it working well for a tablet, but for my laptop it's completely useless.
The only good thing is that they give you the option to switch back to gnome, but metacity seems to be completely broken for me, and hardware acceleration no longer works. As far as I'm concerned, Ubuntu 11.04 is a step backwards. Now I'm looking at either switching to XFCE for the interface, or maybe ditching Ubuntu entirely and going with a different flavor.
Yah, those fines will stop botnets the same way the RIAA lawsuits have stopped piracy. It can't fail!
Space travel - yet another thing we'll be outsourcing to China...
China has already admitted that they can't do it as cheaply as SpaceX. Now, it's possible that SpaceX is producing unrealistic cost estimates, but for the time being it looks as if private industry could at the very least compete with the Chinese space program, if not surpass them in cost-effectiveness. If that changes, yeah, we might have to outsource to them, but there's no reason to be such a pessimist yet.
Well, they are pretty good at ping-pong, you know ...
Pretty sure he was trolling. Granted, there are some really retarded chiropractors out there, but his comment was too nutty to be serious.
I'd rather bet it's because the Middle East became "an unreliable supplier" in a way CIA and whatever "war on concepts" can no longer fix.
You'd lose that bet. Oil-sands and shale-oil might be expensive compared to traditional oil supplies, but they're still cheaper than growing "biofuel". Canada and the US have more oil than the middle east, if you're willing to pay $20-ish a barrel to exploit it. And if you can get the greenies off your back.
1990's totally-unbelievable fantastic paranoid delusions are ho-hum mainstream delusions now.
FTFY
Except that's not what's happening.
Really? Wow. Apparently you have sources of information that I don't have access to. Could you share, or is it all classified?
The silliness enters the picture when you consider how many non-terrorists own such watches, not when you just look at all the suspected or actual terrorists who do.
Well, yes, that would be silly. Why would you want to do something like that?
A lot of people drive a blue For Taurus, so I suppose it would be unreasonable for police to put out an APB stating 4 suspects in a blue Ford Taurus had just robbed a bank at the intersection of X Street and Y Avenue.
That's just retarded. You can buy a new deck for $100 these days, or get a fancier model and have it installed for $300. That's the first thing I did after buying my last vehicle - the stock decks are usually shit anyway. You don't make a $30,000 purchasing decision based on the availability of a $300 part. Or,at least, a rational person doesn't. If you have any sense, you'll select the vehicle that best suits you needs based on fuel efficiency, cabin/cargo room, power/handling, reliability metrics and warranty, and general "feel", then buy the base model with the least amount of gee-whiz features you can find and upgrade whatever you want with after-market parts.
And the new person (the customer) is less well practiced/skilled at the activity than the old person (checkout clerk). If anything, the expert is so good at the job that they're mentally on auto-pilot anyway, so you could even argue it replaces a (semi-) machine with a person, making it a technological regression. (Ah, the joys of externalizing costs.) It's sort of like they're un-invented the assembly line by selling assemble-it-yourself kits.
Yeah, I said the same thing when they made slavery illegal. How am I supposed to make coffee and cook breakfast as efficiently as my boy did? Talk about technological regression!
"I was just following orders." -- The guy at Starbucks who made me a Latte.
I was always under the assumption that a uniformed officer knocks on your door and hands you a slip of paper to escort you "downtown." Sure there are cases that may warrant a full on raid (expected high power weapons, drugs, etc.) but busting down the doors for porn?
It's generally done in order to prevent the destruction of evidence. An "officer with a slip of paper" is the equivalent of saying "please wipe all your drives before coming to the door". Might as well just give them a goatse picture instead of a warrant. Hell, the suspect doesn't even need to wipe the data - unless he's an idiot chances are he has an encrypted volume and all he needs to do is just shut off the computer. Unless you get him while it's powered on, you may very well never recover any evidence from his computer.
Or they will question you first, depending on their level of intelligence...
Yeah: the more intelligent ones will arrest you first, so that you don't have a chance to flee. The naive idiots will just drop by for a chat over tea and crumpets.
How about this: money only has utility in the context of society, for the exchange of goods or services.
Yes, but that's an entirely different statement.
Other materials can have utility to an individual separated from society, which money cannot.
Again, yes, but the reverse is also true; money has a utility which hoarding of goods and/or barter do not. Now, if you're assuming that all societies are about to fail, then I can understand why you might go off on the "money is useless" rant; in that case the most valuable thing you could own is guns and ammo.
No, you don't get to pass off your ignorance onto me. Money isn't "a piece of cloth"; money is a concept. It can be represented by paper, cloth, metal, crystals, plastic, or electrons. The exchange medium is irrelevant. Money has an intrinsic value by definition; if it didn't have value, it wouldn't be money. You can argue that the value is arbitrary or subjective, but that would be true of anything since "value" is inherently subjective. It's a stupid argument made by silly people, and is of no value to anyone.
I'm just supporting the argument that it has no intrinsic value, which it doesn't.
intrinsic
adj \in-trin-zik, -trin(t)-sik\
Definition of INTRINSIC
1
a : belonging to the essential nature or constitution of a thing
You fail.
They were represented by their governments (USA and UK), and have done absolutely not a thing in space without their government's sign-off.
So Virgin Galactic suddenly closes shop in the US and reopens as a corporation based out of Nauru. And the GDP of Nauru quadruples overnight. Problem solved.