It's true; we just need to kill off enough of the world's population, and move the remaining fraction to places where hydro power is plentiful. Problem solved!
Hundreds of people get denied boarding every month, because they objected to some part of the process
What's that got to do with "being treated like a criminal"? You don't want to go through the security process, you're not flying. Nothing even suggesting any criminality there.
a high school dropout with three months mall-cop experience getting just a bit too friendly when doing a pat-down
I suppose you'd be much happier if a PhD with 15 years policing experience got a bit too friendly while doing a pat-down?
If a TSA agent is doing something they're not supposed to do, file a complaint. Just like you would if a cop did it on the street, or if a security guard or bouncer did it at any other venue. The fact that some humans are despicable does not invalidate the need for reasonable screening protocols.
.. and a number are detained and arrested for protesting.
And people who actually have a laptop stolen as it goes through the x-ray machine, while they are being frisked? Yep, a number of those end up in cuffs, and escorted by police out of the airport, for the crime of getting upset their property was stolen.
Well I'm pretty sure THAT number is zero. Maybe some entitled cunt somewhere got arrested after deciding that the best way to deal with a laptop going missing was to heap abuse on random airport personnel, but nobody has ever been arrested for being upset that their laptop was stolen.
If you're the kind of douche-nozzle who insists on taking their frustration out on others, I have very little sympathy for you.
Do you have some evidence that rich white people are disproportionately more likely to commit these crimes than rich non-white people? If so I would love to see it.
If they show up st my house after such a prediction, they will be met with lethal force.
So, OK, you would obviously be evidence that the system works. And as wonderful as that would be, we are actually worried that such a system wouldn't just identify violent lunatics but would rather be abused to target all kinds of normal, sane people who just happen to have unpopular beliefs and opinions.
And yet, if I were to fly, I would be both harassed and treated as a criminal by the TSA even though I haven't done anything.
Really? They would arrest you and cart you off to jail? I've flown many times, but never been subjected to such treatment. Judging by the fact that millions of Americans fly every year without being arrested, I'm going to suggest that you're a bit of an outlier. What have you done to warrant such special treatment?
Unfortunately, the TSA doesn't like this argument and would of course detain me because I objected to being treated like a criminal even though I hadn't yet done anything.
They're going to detain you for objecting to being arrested?
I think you're seriously confused about how this works...
5gb in a 30 day period is fairly easy to blow through if you do not supplement your usage with WiFi.
I got a 10 GB data plan while traveling, because it was cheap. Didn't bother using WiFi at all since I figured I had plenty of data. After a month of use I had only gone through 3.7 GB.
Nice job deflecting to a totally unrelated topic instead of, you know, rebutting a single point.
Nice job sticking your head in the sand and pretending that your point wasn't rebutted.
As well, you introduced more lies. Sex slaves don't have a legal contract with terms agreed to voluntarily - otherwise, they *would* just be called sex workers, and indeed they are.
Sure they do. You're completely ignorant of how much of sex slavery operates, just like you're completely ignorant of how the Irish were treated. The issue is rarely the initial agreement; it's in the susequement abuse, and the power which the owner holds over his slaves.
Are you under some fucked up impression that indentured servitude is actually legal?
The Irish *signed up* for their temporary servitude.
Some did, some didn't. Doesn't really matter; signing up to be a slave doesn't mean that you're not a slave.
Maybe you're confused about what the word means? You know, the dictionary can help you out there:
slave noun 1. a person who is the legal property of another and is forced to obey them.
it is in no way comparable to the involuntary, lifelong, hereditary slavery of Africans.
It is in many ways comparable. I think the phrase you were looking for is "it is somewhat different". Which would be true. Still doesn't mean the Irish weren't slaves, though.
This whole "Irish slavery" meme is a complete fabrication by conservative apologists, who are trying to rewrite history to fit their ideology.
The whole "Irish slavery isn't really slavery" meme is a complete fabrication by far left lunatics who are trying to rewrite history to fit their ideology.
Both "sjbe" and I were talking about efficiency. Then a dimwit showed up and started banging on about torque and power.
His claims about torque and power were both more-or-less correct... and yet they have nothing to do with efficiency. His response was completely off topic yet he clearly believes that it was somehow a refutation to what I said.
The only real range issue I see with it for local driving is that at highway speeds the range goes to shit because it only has the one gear. I think a highway gear would help a lot
It shouldn't. Induction motor efficiency doesn't vary with RPM the way an ICE engine does. Electric motors tend to be pretty inefficient at low loads and more efficient at higher ones. Efficiency does taper down slightly at the high end but certainly not enough to cause range to "go to shit".
Aircraft have weather radar built in, so I've had my smartphone in front of a powered up radar emitter many times; didn't affect it in the slightest. The ground based ones are probably more powerful, but it seems unlikely that they would be affecting electronics. If they did there would be a lot more problems than just one random guy having his computer crash.
Yep, doing this right now. Though, instead of a cheap battery powered router I've got a Lynksis WRT 1900. Those little ones are OK for when you need to move around a lot, but they tend to be slow and somewhat limited.
The Nazis rotated it precisely to be different to the religious symbol.
No, they didn't; you're just repeating nonsense someone once told you without bothering to check it. The swastika has been used by various religions in many different styles, and in both orientations.
Zero. Some of his multitude of businesses have declared bankruptcy, but he himself never has. If you weren't stuck in your little bubble you wouldn't ask such a silly question.
That's a really silly line or reasoning. You may as well argue that banks are trash because once they stockpile enough cash and valuables in their vault, it becomes profitable for someone to put together an armed crew and rob them at gunpoint.
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Then we look at how cheaply they do it.
It's true; we just need to kill off enough of the world's population, and move the remaining fraction to places where hydro power is plentiful. Problem solved!
Hundreds of people get denied boarding every month, because they objected to some part of the process
What's that got to do with "being treated like a criminal"? You don't want to go through the security process, you're not flying. Nothing even suggesting any criminality there.
a high school dropout with three months mall-cop experience getting just a bit too friendly when doing a pat-down
I suppose you'd be much happier if a PhD with 15 years policing experience got a bit too friendly while doing a pat-down?
If a TSA agent is doing something they're not supposed to do, file a complaint. Just like you would if a cop did it on the street, or if a security guard or bouncer did it at any other venue. The fact that some humans are despicable does not invalidate the need for reasonable screening protocols.
.. and a number are detained and arrested for protesting.
Is that number zero?
Or, by "protesting" do you perchance mean stripping naked and acting like a retard?
And people who actually have a laptop stolen as it goes through the x-ray machine, while they are being frisked? Yep, a number of those end up in cuffs, and escorted by police out of the airport, for the crime of getting upset their property was stolen.
Well I'm pretty sure THAT number is zero. Maybe some entitled cunt somewhere got arrested after deciding that the best way to deal with a laptop going missing was to heap abuse on random airport personnel, but nobody has ever been arrested for being upset that their laptop was stolen.
If you're the kind of douche-nozzle who insists on taking their frustration out on others, I have very little sympathy for you.
Do you have some evidence that rich white people are disproportionately more likely to commit these crimes than rich non-white people? If so I would love to see it.
If they show up st my house after such a prediction, they will be met with lethal force.
So, OK, you would obviously be evidence that the system works. And as wonderful as that would be, we are actually worried that such a system wouldn't just identify violent lunatics but would rather be abused to target all kinds of normal, sane people who just happen to have unpopular beliefs and opinions.
And yet, if I were to fly, I would be both harassed and treated as a criminal by the TSA even though I haven't done anything.
Really? They would arrest you and cart you off to jail? I've flown many times, but never been subjected to such treatment. Judging by the fact that millions of Americans fly every year without being arrested, I'm going to suggest that you're a bit of an outlier. What have you done to warrant such special treatment?
Unfortunately, the TSA doesn't like this argument and would of course detain me because I objected to being treated like a criminal even though I hadn't yet done anything.
They're going to detain you for objecting to being arrested?
I think you're seriously confused about how this works ...
I'm not sure how many poor brown people lived in the USSR, but I'm quite sure that you're full of shit.
5gb in a 30 day period is fairly easy to blow through if you do not supplement your usage with WiFi.
I got a 10 GB data plan while traveling, because it was cheap. Didn't bother using WiFi at all since I figured I had plenty of data. After a month of use I had only gone through 3.7 GB.
Nice job deflecting to a totally unrelated topic instead of, you know, rebutting a single point.
Nice job sticking your head in the sand and pretending that your point wasn't rebutted.
As well, you introduced more lies. Sex slaves don't have a legal contract with terms agreed to voluntarily - otherwise, they *would* just be called sex workers, and indeed they are.
Sure they do. You're completely ignorant of how much of sex slavery operates, just like you're completely ignorant of how the Irish were treated. The issue is rarely the initial agreement; it's in the susequement abuse, and the power which the owner holds over his slaves.
Are you under some fucked up impression that indentured servitude is actually legal?
The Irish *signed up* for their temporary servitude.
Some did, some didn't. Doesn't really matter; signing up to be a slave doesn't mean that you're not a slave.
Maybe you're confused about what the word means? You know, the dictionary can help you out there:
slave
noun
1. a person who is the legal property of another and is forced to obey them.
it is in no way comparable to the involuntary, lifelong, hereditary slavery of Africans.
It is in many ways comparable. I think the phrase you were looking for is "it is somewhat different". Which would be true. Still doesn't mean the Irish weren't slaves, though.
This whole "Irish slavery" meme is a complete fabrication by conservative apologists, who are trying to rewrite history to fit their ideology.
The whole "Irish slavery isn't really slavery" meme is a complete fabrication by far left lunatics who are trying to rewrite history to fit their ideology.
The Irish were indentured servants, not slaves.
Oh OK. So modern sex slaves aren't actually slaved, they're just "indentured sex workers".
Have fun defending that one at a feminist convention. I'll start writing your obituary.
Both "sjbe" and I were talking about efficiency. Then a dimwit showed up and started banging on about torque and power.
His claims about torque and power were both more-or-less correct ... and yet they have nothing to do with efficiency. His response was completely off topic yet he clearly believes that it was somehow a refutation to what I said.
You seem similarly confused.
Maybe learn how to read before trying to object.
Tesla and their shareholders care, as so you, obviously. Still pissed about losing the house on your short bet.
He never even approached a point. Yeah, sure, extending the range of electric cars by an order of magnitude is just "making them sexy".
You're here making up retarded nonsense, and you have the balls to call others delusional?
Buddy. Try some introspection.
The only real range issue I see with it for local driving is that at highway speeds the range goes to shit because it only has the one gear. I think a highway gear would help a lot
It shouldn't. Induction motor efficiency doesn't vary with RPM the way an ICE engine does. Electric motors tend to be pretty inefficient at low loads and more efficient at higher ones. Efficiency does taper down slightly at the high end but certainly not enough to cause range to "go to shit".
People have been telling him to seek help for decades. You're wasting your breath. Peter thinks he's the only sane one here.
Aircraft have weather radar built in, so I've had my smartphone in front of a powered up radar emitter many times; didn't affect it in the slightest. The ground based ones are probably more powerful, but it seems unlikely that they would be affecting electronics. If they did there would be a lot more problems than just one random guy having his computer crash.
Yep, doing this right now. Though, instead of a cheap battery powered router I've got a Lynksis WRT 1900. Those little ones are OK for when you need to move around a lot, but they tend to be slow and somewhat limited.
The Nazis rotated it precisely to be different to the religious symbol.
No, they didn't; you're just repeating nonsense someone once told you without bothering to check it. The swastika has been used by various religions in many different styles, and in both orientations.
Thanks man. Slashdot wouldn't be Slashdot without a shitty car analogy.
Zero. Some of his multitude of businesses have declared bankruptcy, but he himself never has. If you weren't stuck in your little bubble you wouldn't ask such a silly question.
Why do you think commercial buildings, being them banks or shops only want to retain as little money and for a shortest time as possible?
Because cash is trash!!!11!1!1
You think you are debunking his argument but you are making it stronger.
That's a rather special take on it ...
They even sell activist stickers on ebay that say something like
"Your privacy from this camera was enabled by this sticker, go here to buy more".
Can you buy them with bitcoins?
That's a really silly line or reasoning. You may as well argue that banks are trash because once they stockpile enough cash and valuables in their vault, it becomes profitable for someone to put together an armed crew and rob them at gunpoint.