The flu kills people who are already sick (or elderly or infants) before they got the flu.
Ebola kills people who are perfectly healthy at the time of infection.
Which you certainly knew, but just decided to be deceptive about.
Flu may kill 50,000... but millions of people who get the flu in the United States wont die. In fact they'll make a full recovery. Of the 7000 odd Ebola cases, over half of them have already died. Flu has got a much lower chance of killing you.
Winter has just finished here in Australia and I got two cases of the flu from co-workers who refused to stay home... I'm happy to report I didn't die, or even become severely dismembered but did take a few days off work (so if you are sick, stay home and get some rest instead of making your colleagues sick).
My friend, are you saying that you don't listen to the radio while driving?
Not the radio no, I do have music but when I'm concentrating on driving I completely zone that out. One minute I'm listening to Stairway, before I know it the song has changed to Teen Spirit. Of course time has passed between the two, but I spent that time paying attention to the road, not the song.
If I start ignoring a phone call, the other person becomes increasingly annoying in trying to get my attention.
And are you saying that you don't talk to other passengers while driving?
When I need to concentrate, I stop talking. The person in the car is also aware of the current situation so they do the same instead of shouting "Frank, Frank, Frank. FRANK. FRAAAAAAAAAANK" until I answer.
Do you use a GPS system while driving?
No, I have a navigational ability above that of a braindead squirrel. Besides this, a GPS device does not require me to respond to it. Navigational system manufacturers have gone to great lengths to ensure their devices aren't dangerous distractions.
Now are you honestly trying to compare momentary distractions to a continuous distraction that has been proven time and time again to be a significant factor in motor vehicle crashes. Put the phone down and concentrate on the road. You are not capable of calling and driving at the same time, this goes double for those who think they are.
I've not gone back to the actual test report, and its not stated in the article, but I wonder if the test subjects were already familiar with the technologies before being tested. If you get in an unfamiliar vehicle, even finding the windshield wiper can be a big distraction. If these subjects are first time or inexperienced users, you can bet they are distracted. Do a test with folks that regularly use the technology and have developed as ease with the interfaces, and then see what the differences are.
They probably are experienced users.
The dunning-kruger effect is a strong argument against your assertion that experienced users will be less distracted. I've seen plenty of "experienced" tech users become completely oblivious to everything around them then walking into traffic, streetlights, chairs and tables, other pedestrians. I shudder to think how bad these people are behind the wheel.
Dubai is fine, if you're a white guy with marketable skills and dont run afoul of an Emeriti citizen... But it sucks if you're an Indian or Filipino "guest worker" (pointing out they're sarcastic quotes for extra sarcasm). There is an enforced pecking order with the Emirs at the top, Emeriti citizens then white people. It start to go seriously downhill from there. Even amongst the privileged classes, more money meant you had more rights. Libertarians who've never seen the reality of unbridled capitalism wonder why I think they're batshit insane. Places like Dubai where more money means you're legally allowed to shit on people with less money are the reasons why I think they're delusional.
Why did I work there, well the money was good. I stuck around for 2 years before I had enough.
However if you're not amongst the privileged classes in Dubai, it's little better than slavery. Some slaves have more rights like the Indians with an IT qualification who can have a beaten up old car, maybe even a room to themselves. These people dont live in Dubai itself though, they live in neighbouring cities and travel in as they dont earn enough to live in Dubai. There are those even futher down the pecking order like Filipinos that work as maids, service people and guards and finally Bangladeshi's and the like who work as menial labourers. The last group literally get trucked in and out, a bus is a luxury for them.
If it's so bad why do they do it, well the money is better than what they earn in the Philippines or wherever they came from. When they accept a contract, they arrive and basically have their passport confiscated by their employer for the duration of their contract. Despite how abusive it is, they still get volunteers because of the unemployment and poverty in their home countries. The Filipino guard who worked at my apartment building was a good bloke but after expenses could only afford to send about US$50 a week back to his family. He considered himself lucky as he worked in a building with Americans instead of Arabs (we were mostly Australian and Europeans, but he was a good bloke) because we'd give him food and small gifts so he could afford to send more money back home to his family.
You and the GGP couldn't be more wrong in that comparison.
The end of WWI left Germany with a functioning representative government. It's their economy we kept fucking after the war. It took the Nazi's 15 years to topple the Weimar republic after many failures (most famous of which was the beer hall push). Eventually the terms placed on the Germans by the treaty of Versailles caused so much economic damage that the Nazi's were able to get popular support.
We _DID_ learn that lesson, which is why post WWII Germany and Japan became economic powerhouses.
The lessons the US did not learn were the ones taught in Vietnam. "Don't go fucking around with the internal politics of nations that dont want you to" as well as "Invade and we will fight you".
We learned from first world war that leaving a vacuum in defeated countries and making them fend for themselves is a recipe for disaster.
We didn't leave a power vacuum in post WWI Germany, what we did was beat them, kick them whilst they were down and then push their faces into the dirt. After WWI Germany transitioned from an imperial government to a representative government. The Weimar Republic failed, not because they were a weak government but because they stuck by the lopsided terms of the Treaty of Versailles which bankrupted Germany and caused high inflation. The Nazi's succeeded because they ignored the treaty of Versailles and gave the German people someone else to blame for their problems (the Jews and Bolsheviks). Even Churchill said the treaty of Versailles led directly to WWII (and he was entitled to his "told you so" moment as he opposed the treaty as military officer at the end of WWI).
The post Iraq and post WWI situations couldn't be more different.
What makes "people" (by which I gather you mean humans) special so that you won't eat them? I see two possibilities. One, that you don't want to pick up the various parasites and diseases that a human can have. Second, that you might think that for whatever reasons it is better on principle to have a living human than a few tens of kilograms of protein.
The third and arguably bigger issue is the cost and time frames involved in farming humans for meat. Most cows go from birth to plate in 15-36 months (depending on the cow). Breeding starts to occur as early as 13 months. For a human to be at the same maturity it would be 13-15 years. A human is not fully grown for 20-25 years and in this time the human stock will need to be fed, sheltered and cared for. If you think it's expensive to take your dog to the vet, wait until you've got to take a human there.
Human livestock does not have many other uses beyond meat. They complain too much and are far too lazy to be pack animals, they do not lay eggs, nor give milk. You will essentially be supporting a farm animal into adulthood and receive nothing in return except 50 or so KG of protein.
Beyond this, because they are much smaller and nimble animals than cattle they will need to be kept in more secure facilities. Now there are some eco-mentalists amongst us that would call this a "prison camp" and "inhuman" but I call it "expensive". You might argue that there are enough free-range humans out there but the problem with this is three fold. 1. Catching the free-range humans without harming the precious cuts of meat is difficult; 2. Eventually someone will complain that you're eating their sister with a red wine jus and fine Chianti; and finally 3. We will eventually run out of free range humans. The last point is of some concern to me, being a patron and protector of this fine Earth.
As much as I enjoyed reading your modest proposal, I must decline as the economics of it do not make sense.
cheap hotels give free breakfast, nice hotels charge a small fortune
Just because a hotel is reasonably priced does not mean it isn't also nice.
Personally I'd rather stay in a smaller hotel where you're considered important event though you're not paying $600 per night. Smaller, less expensive hotels are not automatically dingy, run down rat motels located out in Whoop Whoop. Often they're just as nice as your brand name hotels and in the same general area, but a bit cheaper. With your big chains, you're paying for a few things the smaller guys dont have to like extensive marketing, shareholders, executive bonuses and brand.
i have stayed at that gaylord many times.
I still cant read that without giggling. Who decided to call it "gaylord".
Or the simple option. Allow recipients to rate messages for lewdness/rudeness. People could then filter their messages on the rating of the sender and the sender has no clue what their message rating is.
Because response based moderation has never been abused by people who dont think or act rationally.
It fails for both sexes as bad egos do not discriminate.I.E.
F: "How dare this creep contact ME, thats 0 stars for your".
M: "How dare this harlot reject ME, thats 0 stars for you".
OK, I know that men with oversized ego's aren't smart enough to know what harlot means, but I'm trying to keep this post PG.
The only solution to this is to deny messages between parties until both sides have mutually agreed to communication. I.E. Party A invites Party B to look at their profile. Party B can look and choose whether or not to accept messages. However the reason this has never been implemented is that a lot of dating sites charge to send messages. So they've got no interest in lowering message volumes.
Additionally, yes men with low social skills will be on dating apps / web sites. They are still the ones expected to make the first move so they use informal methods like this to test the waters. But they are bad at it so get labelled creepy. They may just seriously not understand social norms and why they are creepy.
I dont think you quite understand how this works.
Creep == man I dont want attention from. See aslo: scrub.
It doesn't matter how polite or socially astute they are. If a woman receives attention from a male they decide is the wrong type, they are a creep regardless of if they sought that kind of attention.
This is the main reason I've given up on dating in the west. Asian and to a lesser extent Latino women dont have this issue. If an Asian girl doesn't want your attention, she'll be polite about it instead of yelling "CREEP" at the top of her lungs. Of course this is the same culture where a scorned woman will cut off her lovers member, so politeness is a two way street there.
Of course it doesn't go the other way.
Of course it does. I've been stalked and physically harassed by some absolute bush pigs. The difference is I dont make a big deal out of it.
And here I learn that laws can only be enforced when all more severe crimes have been fully handled.
"Sorry, we can't pursue this murder of your child, Mr. Smith, the genocide in Darfur isn't resolved yet."
Why would the FBI be handling the genocide in Dafur, the FBI is a domestic law enforcement agency. Things like genocide and other war crimes are handled by the International Court of Justice at the Hague (more informally called the "world court")
There are different levels of law enforcement so that small crimes aren't lost in the big crimes. However the FBI shouldn't be concentrating on things like industrial espionage and copyright infringement as these are pretty victimless crimes and in the case of copyright infringement, not a criminal case at all. Funding should be removed for all copyright infringement enforcement as it's been demonstrated time and time again, piracy actually increases sales. There's no economic or societal benefit to enforcing it what so ever.
We've had online registration and health care services for years. I haven't had to fill out a medicare form or go into a medicare office... ever. Not once in my adult life.
As for online vehicle registration. Thats state based instead of national (well we only have 7 states and 2 territories) my state, Western Australia did away with registration stickers that you would affix to your windscreen years ago... Before I got my drivers license in fact. Apart from a the tired whines of a few dullards who ignore the reminder the government sends them about their expiring vehicle registration six weeks in advance it's been a fantastic success.
If I need to know when my registration is up, I just look it up. If I want to know if the car I'm buying is registered (and for how long) I can just look up the number plate. About the only thing a malicious person can do on this website is pay my rego for me.
Incidentally, those Subaru engines might be "lacklustre" but they have amazingly flat curves and they have a massive assload of headroom left in them.
Which leads to pretty lacklustre times, 0-100, 80-120, 1/4 mile.
Dont get me wrong however, if someone told me that they wanted a fun car, my first response would be "get a GT86" in my best Jeremy Clarkson accent. It is a cornering machine.
Sure there's plenty of potential... but the thing about potential is that you need to work to unlock it. As the owner of a Silvia S15, let me say mods are expensive if you want them done well enough not to blow up the car you're spending thousands on improving. Its not as simple as bolting on a turbo, your suspension and anti-roll bars need to be reworked at a minimum.
The Subaru FA engine is of course, a fantastic engine, it's the same engine that goes into the WRX some STI's. But these both have turbochargers. The FA20 the Toyobaru twins _is_ a WRX engine without a turbocharger.
Many have argued, as you have that the 86/BRZ are the 180's (Silvia S13) of their day. A light weight, highly modifiable, extremely reliable sports car for the masses... And I buy that argument completely, certainly a flat 4 sounds fantastic (a hell of a lot better than the SR20DET in a 180). But Toyota and Subaru should have turbocharged it from the word go. Toyota's FT86 concept was turbocharged but I guess Subaru didn't want it competing too much with the WRX.
If you maintain a Subaru with a manual transmission well, you can expect it to really hold up.
This needs to be said again. A basically maintained Subi will go for donkeys years.
32 GB "absolute minimum" and 80 GB recommended? An additional 20 GB per year because of updates? Are you butt-fucking kidding me? Do you Microsofties ever take a peek at the competition? Has it never occurred to you that this is not normal or even reasonable?
As a sysadmin who deals with both Windows and Linux (Debian and Red Hat mainly) I can say that most vendors seriously over estimate their minimum requirements for servers. 40 GB is plenty for a 2008 R2 server, 60 if you're feeling generous.
An extra 20 GB for 40 servers is 800 GB on tier 0 storage (and yes, for these 40 servers they are required to be on SSD).
Its not just MS, regularly see tiny little packages designed for accounting or some such that have stupid requirements for a low number of users. Some things like a full version of MSSQL server, 8 cores, 16 GB of RAM and it only deals with about 10 GB of data, even some Linux applications that specify it must be a physical (and they'll refuse to help you if you install it on a virtual). Its sloppy testing and sloppy marketing.
As I said, in 2014 Microsoft finally admitted that the growing WinSxS folder was a concern and created a way to clean it up. It shrunk my 19GB down to just under 2. I understand why Windows needs to keep some old assemblies, but they dont need to keep all of them.
Meanwhile I've been running the same Windows 7 install since the tail end of 2009. That's with a fuckton of install, uninstall, and the occasional defrag and registry cleaning, especially on this tiny 120GB disk. Still runs exactly as it did back then.
Its entirely possible you're slowing down at the same pace as your machine.
Yes, but this is why you give/var its own partition.;)
Great idea in theory, right until a Dev decides to put the log files out to/etc/application/logs and my employer frowns on the use of violence to enforce sensible ideas.
"Water freezes at zero and boils at one hundred. What could be simpler?"
0 is a cold winter day, and 100 is a hot summer day.
That means the base system will be different for Yellowknife, Canada and Darwin, Australia as a winters day in Darwin is warmer than the summer in Yellowknife. With Metric we know that if it's 14 degrees C, we know that its going to be a bit chilly and to wear a jacket no matter where in the world you are.
I drive a Subaru WRX/STi, and I've been pulled over once. When they realized I was over 40 and not a 17 year old with a souped up car they got really disappointed. I didn't get a ticket but they did say that my license plate frame was crooked.
In Australia you get what we call "the personality test" which is whether a cop decides to give you a ticket or not.
If you go around with a "Fuck tha Po-leece" attitude you'll find the police are quite obliging but you'll also figure out that when you fuck the police, the police won't be the "taker". If you're polite and civil, you're more likely to drive away with a bollocking rather than a ticket.
I get messed with the cops at least every other time I take my 94 Supra out. It isn't fun. The worst is being tailgated by a county cop. Going through a town or two and they are still on your ass sucks. Not that I'm doing anything wrong, but it's still the annoyance because you know they are going to pop you for SOMETHING.
I drive a Nissan 200sx (Silvia S15) and when a cop starts tailgating me (rare but it happens, some cops are just jerks). I pull over and let them pass. Very few cops will call that bluff.
You've got to be doing something wrong to be getting the cops attention every single time. Cops usually pick on people that are driving erratically (or in laymans terms, driving like a cock).
But I also keep a dash camera as insurance. I hate he-said/she-said arguments.
Probably. Considering the BRZ is practically a copy of the FR-S, I don't expect too many people who want to buy a Subaru sports car is going to get one that looks the same as a piece of crap Scion.
The Subaru BRZ and Toyota 86 are the same car. It was a joint venture between Toyota and Subaru (hence the car is referred to as the Toyobaru or sometimes Subiota). Toyota did the body, electrics and suspension, Subaru put did the engine.
Unfortunately, the flat 4 boxers that Subaru produce have always been lacklustre without a turbocharger. A nice high revving honda K series would have been a better choice if they had to be NA but they wouldn't have been able to make the car as low as it is (flat engines are well, rather flat, normal inline 4's tend to be taller).
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The flu kills people who are already sick (or elderly or infants) before they got the flu.
Ebola kills people who are perfectly healthy at the time of infection.
Which you certainly knew, but just decided to be deceptive about.
Flu may kill 50,000... but millions of people who get the flu in the United States wont die. In fact they'll make a full recovery. Of the 7000 odd Ebola cases, over half of them have already died. Flu has got a much lower chance of killing you.
Winter has just finished here in Australia and I got two cases of the flu from co-workers who refused to stay home... I'm happy to report I didn't die, or even become severely dismembered but did take a few days off work (so if you are sick, stay home and get some rest instead of making your colleagues sick).
My friend, are you saying that you don't listen to the radio while driving?
Not the radio no, I do have music but when I'm concentrating on driving I completely zone that out. One minute I'm listening to Stairway, before I know it the song has changed to Teen Spirit. Of course time has passed between the two, but I spent that time paying attention to the road, not the song.
If I start ignoring a phone call, the other person becomes increasingly annoying in trying to get my attention.
And are you saying that you don't talk to other passengers while driving?
When I need to concentrate, I stop talking. The person in the car is also aware of the current situation so they do the same instead of shouting "Frank, Frank, Frank. FRANK. FRAAAAAAAAAANK" until I answer.
Do you use a GPS system while driving?
No, I have a navigational ability above that of a braindead squirrel. Besides this, a GPS device does not require me to respond to it. Navigational system manufacturers have gone to great lengths to ensure their devices aren't dangerous distractions.
Now are you honestly trying to compare momentary distractions to a continuous distraction that has been proven time and time again to be a significant factor in motor vehicle crashes. Put the phone down and concentrate on the road. You are not capable of calling and driving at the same time, this goes double for those who think they are.
I've not gone back to the actual test report, and its not stated in the article, but I wonder if the test subjects were already familiar with the technologies before being tested. If you get in an unfamiliar vehicle, even finding the windshield wiper can be a big distraction. If these subjects are first time or inexperienced users, you can bet they are distracted. Do a test with folks that regularly use the technology and have developed as ease with the interfaces, and then see what the differences are.
They probably are experienced users.
The dunning-kruger effect is a strong argument against your assertion that experienced users will be less distracted. I've seen plenty of "experienced" tech users become completely oblivious to everything around them then walking into traffic, streetlights, chairs and tables, other pedestrians. I shudder to think how bad these people are behind the wheel.
I suppose the trains run on time, too.
Dubai is fine, if you're a white guy with marketable skills and dont run afoul of an Emeriti citizen... But it sucks if you're an Indian or Filipino "guest worker" (pointing out they're sarcastic quotes for extra sarcasm). There is an enforced pecking order with the Emirs at the top, Emeriti citizens then white people. It start to go seriously downhill from there. Even amongst the privileged classes, more money meant you had more rights. Libertarians who've never seen the reality of unbridled capitalism wonder why I think they're batshit insane. Places like Dubai where more money means you're legally allowed to shit on people with less money are the reasons why I think they're delusional.
Why did I work there, well the money was good. I stuck around for 2 years before I had enough.
However if you're not amongst the privileged classes in Dubai, it's little better than slavery. Some slaves have more rights like the Indians with an IT qualification who can have a beaten up old car, maybe even a room to themselves. These people dont live in Dubai itself though, they live in neighbouring cities and travel in as they dont earn enough to live in Dubai. There are those even futher down the pecking order like Filipinos that work as maids, service people and guards and finally Bangladeshi's and the like who work as menial labourers. The last group literally get trucked in and out, a bus is a luxury for them.
If it's so bad why do they do it, well the money is better than what they earn in the Philippines or wherever they came from. When they accept a contract, they arrive and basically have their passport confiscated by their employer for the duration of their contract. Despite how abusive it is, they still get volunteers because of the unemployment and poverty in their home countries. The Filipino guard who worked at my apartment building was a good bloke but after expenses could only afford to send about US$50 a week back to his family. He considered himself lucky as he worked in a building with Americans instead of Arabs (we were mostly Australian and Europeans, but he was a good bloke) because we'd give him food and small gifts so he could afford to send more money back home to his family.
Post wwI Germany, yes.
You and the GGP couldn't be more wrong in that comparison.
The end of WWI left Germany with a functioning representative government. It's their economy we kept fucking after the war. It took the Nazi's 15 years to topple the Weimar republic after many failures (most famous of which was the beer hall push). Eventually the terms placed on the Germans by the treaty of Versailles caused so much economic damage that the Nazi's were able to get popular support.
We _DID_ learn that lesson, which is why post WWII Germany and Japan became economic powerhouses.
The lessons the US did not learn were the ones taught in Vietnam. "Don't go fucking around with the internal politics of nations that dont want you to" as well as "Invade and we will fight you".
We learned from first world war that leaving a vacuum in defeated countries and making them fend for themselves is a recipe for disaster.
We didn't leave a power vacuum in post WWI Germany, what we did was beat them, kick them whilst they were down and then push their faces into the dirt. After WWI Germany transitioned from an imperial government to a representative government. The Weimar Republic failed, not because they were a weak government but because they stuck by the lopsided terms of the Treaty of Versailles which bankrupted Germany and caused high inflation. The Nazi's succeeded because they ignored the treaty of Versailles and gave the German people someone else to blame for their problems (the Jews and Bolsheviks). Even Churchill said the treaty of Versailles led directly to WWII (and he was entitled to his "told you so" moment as he opposed the treaty as military officer at the end of WWI).
The post Iraq and post WWI situations couldn't be more different.
Google Army.
It will take over several small countries whilst in beta before being disbanded for no good reason.
What makes "people" (by which I gather you mean humans) special so that you won't eat them? I see two possibilities. One, that you don't want to pick up the various parasites and diseases that a human can have. Second, that you might think that for whatever reasons it is better on principle to have a living human than a few tens of kilograms of protein.
The third and arguably bigger issue is the cost and time frames involved in farming humans for meat. Most cows go from birth to plate in 15-36 months (depending on the cow). Breeding starts to occur as early as 13 months. For a human to be at the same maturity it would be 13-15 years. A human is not fully grown for 20-25 years and in this time the human stock will need to be fed, sheltered and cared for. If you think it's expensive to take your dog to the vet, wait until you've got to take a human there.
Human livestock does not have many other uses beyond meat. They complain too much and are far too lazy to be pack animals, they do not lay eggs, nor give milk. You will essentially be supporting a farm animal into adulthood and receive nothing in return except 50 or so KG of protein.
Beyond this, because they are much smaller and nimble animals than cattle they will need to be kept in more secure facilities. Now there are some eco-mentalists amongst us that would call this a "prison camp" and "inhuman" but I call it "expensive". You might argue that there are enough free-range humans out there but the problem with this is three fold. 1. Catching the free-range humans without harming the precious cuts of meat is difficult; 2. Eventually someone will complain that you're eating their sister with a red wine jus and fine Chianti; and finally 3. We will eventually run out of free range humans. The last point is of some concern to me, being a patron and protector of this fine Earth.
As much as I enjoyed reading your modest proposal, I must decline as the economics of it do not make sense.
Does the microwave beam still make that "ding" sound when it's done roasting the aggressor? I hope they've left that in.
Just because a hotel is reasonably priced does not mean it isn't also nice.
Personally I'd rather stay in a smaller hotel where you're considered important event though you're not paying $600 per night. Smaller, less expensive hotels are not automatically dingy, run down rat motels located out in Whoop Whoop. Often they're just as nice as your brand name hotels and in the same general area, but a bit cheaper. With your big chains, you're paying for a few things the smaller guys dont have to like extensive marketing, shareholders, executive bonuses and brand.
I still cant read that without giggling. Who decided to call it "gaylord".
"No additional fee" would be more accurate that "free" in this case.
Hotels typically use the word "complimentary" for things that are provided without charge.
Or the simple option. Allow recipients to rate messages for lewdness/rudeness. People could then filter their messages on the rating of the sender and the sender has no clue what their message rating is.
Because response based moderation has never been abused by people who dont think or act rationally.
It fails for both sexes as bad egos do not discriminate.I.E.
F: "How dare this creep contact ME, thats 0 stars for your".
M: "How dare this harlot reject ME, thats 0 stars for you".
OK, I know that men with oversized ego's aren't smart enough to know what harlot means, but I'm trying to keep this post PG.
The only solution to this is to deny messages between parties until both sides have mutually agreed to communication. I.E. Party A invites Party B to look at their profile. Party B can look and choose whether or not to accept messages. However the reason this has never been implemented is that a lot of dating sites charge to send messages. So they've got no interest in lowering message volumes.
Additionally, yes men with low social skills will be on dating apps / web sites. They are still the ones expected to make the first move so they use informal methods like this to test the waters. But they are bad at it so get labelled creepy. They may just seriously not understand social norms and why they are creepy.
I dont think you quite understand how this works.
Creep == man I dont want attention from. See aslo: scrub.
It doesn't matter how polite or socially astute they are. If a woman receives attention from a male they decide is the wrong type, they are a creep regardless of if they sought that kind of attention.
This is the main reason I've given up on dating in the west. Asian and to a lesser extent Latino women dont have this issue. If an Asian girl doesn't want your attention, she'll be polite about it instead of yelling "CREEP" at the top of her lungs. Of course this is the same culture where a scorned woman will cut off her lovers member, so politeness is a two way street there.
Of course it doesn't go the other way.
Of course it does. I've been stalked and physically harassed by some absolute bush pigs. The difference is I dont make a big deal out of it.
... why is it always Google? Momma always did like Google, best.
Where's all the OTHER search engines?
The same reason they dont sue 4chan or Reddit. They dont have money.
Google are an easy target in their eyes.
And here I learn that laws can only be enforced when all more severe crimes have been fully handled.
"Sorry, we can't pursue this murder of your child, Mr. Smith, the genocide in Darfur isn't resolved yet."
Why would the FBI be handling the genocide in Dafur, the FBI is a domestic law enforcement agency. Things like genocide and other war crimes are handled by the International Court of Justice at the Hague (more informally called the "world court")
There are different levels of law enforcement so that small crimes aren't lost in the big crimes. However the FBI shouldn't be concentrating on things like industrial espionage and copyright infringement as these are pretty victimless crimes and in the case of copyright infringement, not a criminal case at all. Funding should be removed for all copyright infringement enforcement as it's been demonstrated time and time again, piracy actually increases sales. There's no economic or societal benefit to enforcing it what so ever.
Ahh,
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Fair enough. Looks like I put too much trust in
Also it seems that they were phasing out the paper tax discs rather than running out.
Why cant the UK or US?
We've had online registration and health care services for years. I haven't had to fill out a medicare form or go into a medicare office... ever. Not once in my adult life.
As for online vehicle registration. Thats state based instead of national (well we only have 7 states and 2 territories) my state, Western Australia did away with registration stickers that you would affix to your windscreen years ago... Before I got my drivers license in fact. Apart from a the tired whines of a few dullards who ignore the reminder the government sends them about their expiring vehicle registration six weeks in advance it's been a fantastic success.
If I need to know when my registration is up, I just look it up. If I want to know if the car I'm buying is registered (and for how long) I can just look up the number plate. About the only thing a malicious person can do on this website is pay my rego for me.
Which leads to pretty lacklustre times, 0-100, 80-120, 1/4 mile.
Dont get me wrong however, if someone told me that they wanted a fun car, my first response would be "get a GT86" in my best Jeremy Clarkson accent. It is a cornering machine.
Sure there's plenty of potential... but the thing about potential is that you need to work to unlock it. As the owner of a Silvia S15, let me say mods are expensive if you want them done well enough not to blow up the car you're spending thousands on improving. Its not as simple as bolting on a turbo, your suspension and anti-roll bars need to be reworked at a minimum.
The Subaru FA engine is of course, a fantastic engine, it's the same engine that goes into the WRX some STI's. But these both have turbochargers. The FA20 the Toyobaru twins _is_ a WRX engine without a turbocharger. Many have argued, as you have that the 86/BRZ are the 180's (Silvia S13) of their day. A light weight, highly modifiable, extremely reliable sports car for the masses... And I buy that argument completely, certainly a flat 4 sounds fantastic (a hell of a lot better than the SR20DET in a 180). But Toyota and Subaru should have turbocharged it from the word go. Toyota's FT86 concept was turbocharged but I guess Subaru didn't want it competing too much with the WRX.
This needs to be said again. A basically maintained Subi will go for donkeys years.
32 GB "absolute minimum" and 80 GB recommended? An additional 20 GB per year because of updates? Are you butt-fucking kidding me? Do you Microsofties ever take a peek at the competition? Has it never occurred to you that this is not normal or even reasonable?
As a sysadmin who deals with both Windows and Linux (Debian and Red Hat mainly) I can say that most vendors seriously over estimate their minimum requirements for servers. 40 GB is plenty for a 2008 R2 server, 60 if you're feeling generous.
An extra 20 GB for 40 servers is 800 GB on tier 0 storage (and yes, for these 40 servers they are required to be on SSD).
Its not just MS, regularly see tiny little packages designed for accounting or some such that have stupid requirements for a low number of users. Some things like a full version of MSSQL server, 8 cores, 16 GB of RAM and it only deals with about 10 GB of data, even some Linux applications that specify it must be a physical (and they'll refuse to help you if you install it on a virtual). Its sloppy testing and sloppy marketing.
As I said, in 2014 Microsoft finally admitted that the growing WinSxS folder was a concern and created a way to clean it up. It shrunk my 19GB down to just under 2. I understand why Windows needs to keep some old assemblies, but they dont need to keep all of them.
Meanwhile I've been running the same Windows 7 install since the tail end of 2009. That's with a fuckton of install, uninstall, and the occasional defrag and registry cleaning, especially on this tiny 120GB disk. Still runs exactly as it did back then.
Its entirely possible you're slowing down at the same pace as your machine.
Yes, but this is why you give /var its own partition. ;)
Great idea in theory, right until a Dev decides to put the log files out to /etc/application/logs and my employer frowns on the use of violence to enforce sensible ideas.
"Water freezes at zero and boils at one hundred. What could be simpler?"
0 is a cold winter day, and 100 is a hot summer day.
That means the base system will be different for Yellowknife, Canada and Darwin, Australia as a winters day in Darwin is warmer than the summer in Yellowknife. With Metric we know that if it's 14 degrees C, we know that its going to be a bit chilly and to wear a jacket no matter where in the world you are.
I drive a Subaru WRX/STi, and I've been pulled over once. When they realized I was over 40 and not a 17 year old with a souped up car they got really disappointed. I didn't get a ticket but they did say that my license plate frame was crooked.
In Australia you get what we call "the personality test" which is whether a cop decides to give you a ticket or not.
If you go around with a "Fuck tha Po-leece" attitude you'll find the police are quite obliging but you'll also figure out that when you fuck the police, the police won't be the "taker". If you're polite and civil, you're more likely to drive away with a bollocking rather than a ticket.
I get messed with the cops at least every other time I take my 94 Supra out. It isn't fun. The worst is being tailgated by a county cop. Going through a town or two and they are still on your ass sucks. Not that I'm doing anything wrong, but it's still the annoyance because you know they are going to pop you for SOMETHING.
I drive a Nissan 200sx (Silvia S15) and when a cop starts tailgating me (rare but it happens, some cops are just jerks). I pull over and let them pass. Very few cops will call that bluff.
You've got to be doing something wrong to be getting the cops attention every single time. Cops usually pick on people that are driving erratically (or in laymans terms, driving like a cock).
But I also keep a dash camera as insurance. I hate he-said/she-said arguments.
Probably. Considering the BRZ is practically a copy of the FR-S, I don't expect too many people who want to buy a Subaru sports car is going to get one that looks the same as a piece of crap Scion.
The Subaru BRZ and Toyota 86 are the same car. It was a joint venture between Toyota and Subaru (hence the car is referred to as the Toyobaru or sometimes Subiota). Toyota did the body, electrics and suspension, Subaru put did the engine.
Unfortunately, the flat 4 boxers that Subaru produce have always been lacklustre without a turbocharger. A nice high revving honda K series would have been a better choice if they had to be NA but they wouldn't have been able to make the car as low as it is (flat engines are well, rather flat, normal inline 4's tend to be taller).