I might just be tired, but it took me forever to figure out what a walking skyrocket is.
I'm tired AND drunk, and I would have gotten it right away, but I was trying to tweet out a picture of my dick, and accidentally walked into a busy intersection.
All of a sudden, several of his/her "fans" look up his/her name and street address in the federal database. Most likely no one will show up at your doorstep, but it takes only one crazy stalker.
Your kid is most likely to get abducted by a family member or friend, and he already knows your address.
And do you think the proverbial "crazy stalker" can't see your kid playing in front of the house or coming home from school? Do you think the crazy stalker can't see the license plate on your wife's mini-van and get your address?
Your address is in big numbers on the front of your house. When did it become "private information". You can't live your life in a bubble and you shouldn't raise your kid like a veal.
What do you think of the statement, "The only thing worse than a self-absorbed, entitled douche is an self-absorbed, entitled douche who's trying to live forever"?
And stuff like this is why many think the Department of Education should be eliminated or severely scaled back. Perhaps set national standards but not get into the day-to-day operations of a school.
There may be good reasons for keeping control over schools away from local authorities:
This information has been available for free since before WWII. The rolls of registered voters and their addresses have always been freely available. You didn't even need to fill out a FOIA request. Just pop down to the local county clerk and ask. They'll even print it out for you if you'd prefer that to the raw data. In most places, you can also get party affiliation. It's neatly organized by ward and precinct.
That's part of the problem with representative governments and free societies. If you want to participate, you have to give up some of your anonymity. There isn't really any practical alternative, and I'm not sure there should be one.
I know this sounds bad; but I am a middle aged man, I am not going to make new friends. I am not allowed to have a dog. I wanted something that I could come home and chat with. Yes, something that would remember to wake me up and discuss movies, books, and games with me.
As long as it has a working class Scottish accent and curses a lot, I'll interact with a chatbot all day long.
"How are you today, AngusBot?"
"ALL TURN YER FOOKIN BOABY INSIDE OOT YA MANKY COONT"
you're his master and he's your servant.Roman Marquez
Wait, you mean CEOs are all my servants? And I'm the master? Then I want Tim Cook to deliver a brand new Surface Pro to my house this afternoon along with a case of beer.
Look at the prevailing atmospheric vorticity of the area, place a bunch of counter-vorticity-inducing stators around the biggest leak (just a few percent cant on them is sufficient) and light it up. The updraft will pull air in through the stators inducing continuous vorticity that will form a fire tornado [youtube.com] miles into the atmosphere, totally oxidizing the methane and anything else that might burn in the gas.
I'll agree to your plan, but only if we make Dennis Arriola, the CEO of SoCal Gas light it with a Bic lighter while wearing a suit made from styrofoam peanuts soaked in gasoline.
No. An accident is when you're drunk and you think you have to fart but you end up crapping your drawers.
When a leak in your natural gas storage facility springs a leak so bad that it makes an entire California town uninhabitable and the residents seriously ill, has already dumped the greenhouse equivalent of a million tons of CO2 into the atmosphere and you won't be able to stop the leak until at least March, 2016, it's a fucking crime. They should be frog-marching the CEO and Board of Directors of SoCal Gas in handcuffs right now. Let the hundreds of families that have had to leave their homes indefinitely throw rocks at their heads.
"We don't want to be behind the times by taking cash while cash is dying out," says Bjorn Ulvaeus, a former Abba member
Does anyone really want to take economic advice from a guy who wears big poofy sleeves and spandex overalls? I mean, if he wants to give advice on how to bang hot Swedish babes, OK, I'm listening. But I really don't need to know what he thinks about monetary policy.
So what you want is not a "totally free market", but rather, a regulated market. The only discussion left then is a negotiation regarding where to set the level of regulation. In other words, you want an attenuated freedom...a limited freedom. I guess, freedom ain't free.
I suggest we set the "freedom dial" to the setting that has provided people with the highest level of economic security, economic mobility, standard of living and lowest level of poverty. I think you see where this is going. See you in Gothenburg, comrade. Bernie 2016.
Well, as a simple example, black markets by their very nature are unregulated.
You would be wrong. As someone who spent a fair amount of time in Belgrade during the troubles there in the '90s, I've seen first hand how black markets work. They use currency (govt) and weights and measures (govt) and almost certainly local police are involved (or they couldn't function). Black markets exist when law breaks down, and I'm pretty sure you wouldn't offer the black market as a model on which to base you preferred economic system.
(It's 110V 60Hz in the US.)
The median voltage in the US is 117 VAC, and it's reported worldwide at 120 VAC.
Let me leave you with this quote from Bastiat:
But it's a quote about something that doesn't have anything to do with the fact that you still can't offer a single instance of a "free market".
Objecting to government-mandated standards is not the same as objecting to standards. Having standard voltages and frequencies, safety standards, and measurement standards is a good thing, but there are many ways and better ways to provide those than through government coercion.
Good, then offer some examples of safety and measurement standards being "provided" (and by this, I assume you mean "enforced") without government.
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I'm tired AND drunk, and I would have gotten it right away, but I was trying to tweet out a picture of my dick, and accidentally walked into a busy intersection.
Your kid is most likely to get abducted by a family member or friend, and he already knows your address.
And do you think the proverbial "crazy stalker" can't see your kid playing in front of the house or coming home from school? Do you think the crazy stalker can't see the license plate on your wife's mini-van and get your address?
Your address is in big numbers on the front of your house. When did it become "private information". You can't live your life in a bubble and you shouldn't raise your kid like a veal.
War is hell.
I'm glad nobody told these guys:
http://www.sonofthesouth.net/l...
Mr Kurzweil,
What do you think of the statement, "The only thing worse than a self-absorbed, entitled douche is an self-absorbed, entitled douche who's trying to live forever"?
I'll only work for companies that adopt enterprise BeOS.
There may be good reasons for keeping control over schools away from local authorities:
https://boingboing.net/2015/12...
But then you'd be Scottish.
This information has been available for free since before WWII. The rolls of registered voters and their addresses have always been freely available. You didn't even need to fill out a FOIA request. Just pop down to the local county clerk and ask. They'll even print it out for you if you'd prefer that to the raw data. In most places, you can also get party affiliation. It's neatly organized by ward and precinct.
That's part of the problem with representative governments and free societies. If you want to participate, you have to give up some of your anonymity. There isn't really any practical alternative, and I'm not sure there should be one.
Because rich men have such a hard time finding pootenanny that they have to resort to a lame website?
You say, "AI-controlled bots" as if that's a bad thing.
Why don't you tell us? How many?
http://www.wsj.com/articles/se...
As long as it has a working class Scottish accent and curses a lot, I'll interact with a chatbot all day long.
"How are you today, AngusBot?"
"ALL TURN YER FOOKIN BOABY INSIDE OOT YA MANKY COONT"
I like to imagine that there is only one AC posting on Slashdot, and he's highly conflicted.
What are you on about?
And yes, when Comrade Sanders is made premiere, Apple will have to be shut down and all Apple products confiscated in the name of the greater good.
All four of the factors are porn.
Wait, you mean CEOs are all my servants? And I'm the master? Then I want Tim Cook to deliver a brand new Surface Pro to my house this afternoon along with a case of beer.
Roman Marquez, you are a dope.
Don't tell me, tell the guy to whom I was replying. I kept his spelling because I didn't want to confuse him.
I'll agree to your plan, but only if we make Dennis Arriola, the CEO of SoCal Gas light it with a Bic lighter while wearing a suit made from styrofoam peanuts soaked in gasoline.
No. An accident is when you're drunk and you think you have to fart but you end up crapping your drawers.
When a leak in your natural gas storage facility springs a leak so bad that it makes an entire California town uninhabitable and the residents seriously ill, has already dumped the greenhouse equivalent of a million tons of CO2 into the atmosphere and you won't be able to stop the leak until at least March, 2016, it's a fucking crime. They should be frog-marching the CEO and Board of Directors of SoCal Gas in handcuffs right now. Let the hundreds of families that have had to leave their homes indefinitely throw rocks at their heads.
http://www.theguardian.com/us-...
It's the best platform for Fallout 4.
It could be worse. They might have announced a wrist watch.
Does anyone really want to take economic advice from a guy who wears big poofy sleeves and spandex overalls? I mean, if he wants to give advice on how to bang hot Swedish babes, OK, I'm listening. But I really don't need to know what he thinks about monetary policy.
https://youtu.be/J3ECxyIS9oI
https://youtu.be/qrfY7RNaBjw
That's the point.
So what you want is not a "totally free market", but rather, a regulated market. The only discussion left then is a negotiation regarding where to set the level of regulation. In other words, you want an attenuated freedom...a limited freedom. I guess, freedom ain't free.
I suggest we set the "freedom dial" to the setting that has provided people with the highest level of economic security, economic mobility, standard of living and lowest level of poverty. I think you see where this is going. See you in Gothenburg, comrade. Bernie 2016.
You would be wrong. As someone who spent a fair amount of time in Belgrade during the troubles there in the '90s, I've seen first hand how black markets work. They use currency (govt) and weights and measures (govt) and almost certainly local police are involved (or they couldn't function). Black markets exist when law breaks down, and I'm pretty sure you wouldn't offer the black market as a model on which to base you preferred economic system.
The median voltage in the US is 117 VAC, and it's reported worldwide at 120 VAC.
But it's a quote about something that doesn't have anything to do with the fact that you still can't offer a single instance of a "free market".
Good, then offer some examples of safety and measurement standards being "provided" (and by this, I assume you mean "enforced") without government.