Wasn't TCP designed for just this? Guaranteed transmission?
I'm being extremely pedantic, but there is no such thing as guaranteed transmission. The best protocol in the world won't help you if the connection breaks! I'll go back into my hole now.... -Taylor
I just took a look at it (watched a few minutes of a show) in a basic (no extensions, no nothing) install of IE. No banner ads. Maybe logged in people don't get them? Or maybe they're being inserted somewhere along the way (virus or your provider).
I just clicked on a Simpsons episode and I got one. It was an OLPC ad, which was the sponsor for that episode (i.e. the normal commercials in that episode were for OLPC also). When i have seen banner ads, it has always been the same as the sponsoring company.
It's definitely not a virus and I can't possibly imagine my ISP is inserting it in the page, since it looks well placed and is always the same as the sponsoring company for that episode.
Err, what? I've never seen a banner ad on Hulu, even when I drop to Chrome (no ad-block).
Hulu ads are interstitials, just like on TV. Sometimes they are exactly ads that I've seen on TV also. They cut in at about the same places too. The only difference is that they only last a few seconds rather than a couple minutes per commercial break.
Aside from that, I don't see how it's obvious that if there were some ad sitting there for the entire show, that it would be more expensive than an interstitial placement.
Uh, well, look again. They *DO* have banner ads. And it can be annoying because when you hit "lower lights", the ad doesn't get dimmed, so it stands out even more. I don't think all advertisers choose to have a banner ad, but i know I've seen them a few times at least. -Taylor
$100M for a powertrain manufacturing plant in the SF Bay Area
How on earth can that be the cheapest place to manufacture something?
I suspect the factory location is more political than practical ("I've love to help you get that loan, but you know, it'd sure be nice if you located that factory in my state").
They're building it in Alviso, near Milpitas, on a plot of land that no one has built on because it's right next to a dump. I've you've ever driven through milpitas you know it, it smells horrible over there, all the time.
So they build a plant on land no one wants, and they get to have manufacturing near their engineers, which is really a boon for efficiency.
So it's not bad.
Plus, everyone gets to stay in the bay area, which is probably the real reason they did it! -Taylor
How is funding a boutique luxury car manufacturer at the rate of half a billion similar to funding interstates, military, postal service, etc.? Tesla does not even hope to provide shared infrastructure or essential services to the country as do these programs. I don't get it.
I am so sick of this argument! They are NOT just a boutique luxury car manufacturer, they started that way to get enough money for their company but they are now working on selling the first truly viable all electric family sedan, that is within the range of most other nice sedans like Audis, etc, which many familys have.
They are the first company with the balls to say FU to the oil companies and actually do some real innovative work, and they deserve every fucking penny of what they got.
While every other automaker in the world has treated electric cars like a curiosity, Tesla came right out and saw them as the future. If anyone *doesn't* deserve the money, it's the major automakers that ignored anything efficient until oil blew up and being green became fashionable. -Taylor
In order to prevent SPAMbots once and for all, you should require that everyone interested in contacting you first drive to the next geohash http://www.wiki.xkcd.com/geohashing/Main_Page in the region of your choosing, wearing a lumberjack outfit and carrying a case of jolt cola.
Then, and only then, does the read quest begin... -Taylor
In order to prevent SPAMbots once and for all, you should require that everyone interested in contacting you first drive to the next geohash http://www.wiki.xkcd.com/geohashing/Main_Page in the region of your choosing, wearing a lumberjack outfit and carrying a case of jolt cola.
Then, and only then, does the read quest begin... -Taylor
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This isn't quite what you want, but I have a $30 6 drive caddy (with 4 drives atm) and a $70 4 port internal SATA card. I just run long SATA cables to it, but it was cheaper than any single-cable solution i found, so that may not be a bad way to go.
One thing I noticed though was that I actually have enough room for all 9 of my hard drives inside my case! I may migrate them in.
And yes, before you say it, that is certainly quite a bit of porn! -Taylor
If you had no format knowledge, and someone told you you could have HD DVD or Blu-Ray, which would you pick? Probably the one you thought you knew, High Definition DVD. You might even think it was more compatible with your existing DVD stuff. Blu Ray? What's that?
Actually, HD-DVD *is* more compatible with existing DVD stuff, in that a standard DVD can be pressed onto one side of the disc, since HD-DVD uses the same fab as a standard DVD. That's also why it was cheaper. Blu-Ray never did that, and I'm not sure they easily could, since the fab is all different.
I do think that HD-DVD should just come back - their discs are so damn cheap now that if they just kept them that way instead of gouging people, they might actually stay on top!
But i just miss that plucky little format! -Taylor
Pretty much everything HTC makes these days... The Touch Diamond, the Touch Pro, the Touch HD, the Diamond 2, the Touch Pro 2. Not to mention stuff like the Samsung Omnia...
Ah, well that's nice.
But still, don't get me started on windows mobile... Nice hardware can't help a crap OS.
And either way, none of that changes my original point, which is that it's asinine for AT&T to come out with a 320x240 android phone (or any smartphone for that matter) and it probably has to do with pressure from microsoft and apple or some bullshit. I really wish that this whole fucking cartel mentality they have was outlawed, because it sucks for us consumers! -Taylor
"As far as smartphones go, i hear rumors that AT&T is finally coming out with an android phone this summer, and it has a *QVGA* screen!? WTF? That is horrible. the iphone and g1 have TWICE as many pixels! Why go backwards!?"
You are aware of the fact that the 320x480 that the iPhone and most Android phones use (IIRC) is also quite a step back from the VGA and WVGA (800x480) resolutions that have become pretty much standard on Windows Mobile-based phones, right?:)...
Haha, that is bullshit! I had windows mobile for 3 years in 3 phones and they were ALL 320x240 and it was horrible. What phones are you talking about? -Taylor
Yep. I don't really get why people avoid "one" anyway though. Here in the UK, it's usually avoided because people don't want to sound "posh", since only the aristocracy really use "one". However, when people are already showing off their brains by writing a thesis or some article on the virtues of video formats on a world-renowned encyclopedia site, it makes a lot of sense to simply use one then too.
"One" isn't always correct either though. Imagine a conversation between you and someone else:
In response, Roth argued that exclusive deals enable innovation because the operator and manufacturer share the risk. He suggested that operators will ask manufacturers for certain features on phones but manufacturers will often only do so if the operator agrees to buy a certain number of phones, he said.
Corporate trusts are not supposed to decide what features go into products. That is one of the reasons that anti-trust regulation exists. Picking features and rewarding risk takers is the exclusive domain of the silent hand of the market. If you want to share the risk and get some exposure, then buy corporate bonds or non-voting shares from the handset manufacturer that pleases you. It is not a cartel or lateral monopoly's prerogative to manipulate decisions about product features.
The reason it is not the prerogative of trusts, cartels, or monopolies is because they are worse at it than the free market. Demonstrably so:
Did you notice, for example, that it took a computer company -- that had never had anything to do with cellular -- entering the market to finally get a smartphone that didn't suck into the US market?
Did you notice that the second acceptable smartphone came from a search engine company that had also never done cellular before?
Did you notice that that second smartphone got relegated to a third tier provider because the big boys were too busy sucking each others dicks to be bothered with an innovative product?
Did you notice that prior to the iPhone, America had just about the crappiest phones in the entire first world? Tiny little Taiwan was about a decade ahead of where we would be today were it not for Apple -- a complete outsider to your supposedly "innovative" little idiocracy.
You guys have been using your cartel to sit on your lazy, incompetent asses. Just like the auto manufacturers, except that Southeast Asian companies have a much harder time getting variances for cell towers than you, you fat, lazy fucks, so they haven't managed to kick your ass all up and down like they did to the auto makers.
I understand that you want to dictate features and restrain trade, but as it turns out, the free market(*) is a more efficient solution. So shove your transparent cartel rationalization up your ass and get out of my face.
Well, that's what the Senators should have said, anyway.
* Not laissez-faire, not anarchy: Adam Smith's free market, including regulation of anti-competitive behavior. Go re-read The Wealth of Nations if you doubt me.
+1 awesome.
The US cellular market still blows. It was terrible years ago and it will be forever unless something changes! I switched away from verizon because their selection was shit, and instead now I have AT&T, whose network blows compared to verizon. But I still don't have 3G on my damn phone because I want android and AT&T is too into the iPhone love to agree to do anything with android. I could switch to t-mobile but now my work is paying for AT&T, so I'm stuck with EDGE only on my unlocked G1 even though my *FLIP PHONE* 4 years ago had 3G! I used to stream the daily show!
If the manufacturers weren't so damn entangled with the carriers, they wouldn't be able to keep selling the complete shit they call most phones and there might be some real innovation to get consumer interest! I mean really, look at any cheap phone today and tell me what, if any, features it has over a cheap phone from 4 years ago!? They have pretty much stopped developing things on that end.
As far as smartphones go, i hear rumors that AT&T is finally coming out with an android phone this summer, and it has a *QVGA* screen!? WTF? That is horrible. the iphone and g1 have TWICE as many pixels! Why go backwards!?
That may not be true but either way, the US cellular market is just shit and I would LOVE for something to change! -Taylor
They is more correct than she, if you're referring to a group.
Well, in the sense that "she" is completely incorrect when referring to a group, yes. And "they" is technically completely incorrect when referring to one person, but people use it all the time, and I like it more than any other option (god forbid, in writing anyway, someone say "s/he"). I wish "they" was just correct. -Taylor
...a person editing a Wikipedia.... allowing her to search for video...
Strange, apparently a "person" can only be female.
I know, I know, if it said "he" no one would notice, but obviously this person was going out of their way to say "her", so why not just go with "they"? I know it's not grammatically correct (according to an English teacher I had) but at least it works, and it should be correct.
Anyway, it just annoys me when someone goes out of their way to try to end the male gender bias only to throw in female gender bias instead of making it gender neutral. -Taylor
this is why we need to get rid of 99% of these fucking laws and live in a free society again
Yup! Nothing says fairness like letting the big guys push everyone around!
Because that's what happens when you eliminate 99% of laws.
This reminds me of all those "punk" people that think everything would be better if we had anarchy...
Uh, yeah, it would be great if there was no transportation system and no police and no judges and everyone with a bigger stick could push me around.
I know that's not exactly what you said (you said 'these' laws, probably meaning crazy tax and payment laws) but just gutting a legal system is never a good idea, it needs to be fixed, not abandoned.
Whiskey is another good investment if you have such expectations. Good whiskey is difficult to make, in high demand, keeps well, and takes a very long time to make if you have only primitive equipment. (Consider the problem of seals in the still, and making pipes that don't leak lead.)
You'd probably want to make sure that it was securely packaged, and that the caps of the bottles were upright and not exposed to moisture. Doing such in the current environment is easy. After a collapse, much more difficult. And you can buy an extra liter of whiskey a week without anyone raising an eyebrow. (Try doing that with guns and ammo. And ammo doesn't store as well.)
Another good investment would be a medical degree. That one's more time consuming, but after a collapse doctors, those who know more than what drugs to prescribe anyway, will be extremely valuable. Nurses too.
Or you could apprentice yourself to a blacksmith. That would be a really valuable skill. But you'd better learn how to handle and recognize scrap metal.
Horse handling probably won't be worth bothering with in most areas for a few generations. Most of the horses will be eaten. Archery would be worthwhile, but learn to fletch your arrows at the same time. I doubt that you could learn to handle a longbow well, but it would be a good idea to learn how to teach the use of it. (Supposedly one needs to grow up with a longbow to learn it's proper use.) Having a few compound bows would be a good substitute, but you won't be able to replace them. So also get a few regular bows, and learn how to make them from wood. And which wood. (Yew is likely not to be available, so learn what's available in your area.)
Guns are a strictly short term answer. (So is whiskey.) Both only buy you time to establish yourself in a community...and you'll NEED a community. Self defense by an individual is a recipe for dying out within one generation.
I would think carpentry and farming are two of the most universally needed fields. People need to eat and have shelter, so those are really useful.
But all this talk of collapse is bullshit anyway. -Taylor
I believe your premonition. I think for you it wasn't about the boy, it was about something else, and the boy's experience was just the same kind of image but not in a dream.
I don't think premonitions can be trusted to tell you what to do - they don't point in the direction of right and wrong. And desiring them is generally unhealthy and dangerous, so its just as well for them to be rare and for people to be skeptical. But it might be a useful warning if you do the right thing with it.
Yeah I know I'm likely to get modded crazy by people who don't know WTF I'm talking about, and for being unwilling to publicly post more supporting data. I've already heard all the arguments.
Yeah, it's one of those things, it's hard to quantify but even though I'm very scientific normally, I don't rule out things like this as simply being beyond the understanding of current science.
When I was young (about 8 years old), I had a dream the house was on fire and I asked my mom to make sure there were no oily rags under the kitchen sink.
The next day we woke up and found out that los angeles was burning - the big 1992 fire they had that raged forever.
It was weird.
I don't know what my dream was about and maybe everything is coincidence but you just get that feeling... that maybe it isn't. -Taylor
Got you beat; I'm coming out with a 5.00000001 dimension database.
Fuck!
But seriously - my other post was modded troll? It was supposed to be funny!
And it was also supposed to be a bit serious - saying that adding twitter messages and the like makes it 3D is just silly. It't just another table, which is cool and could be extremely useful, but that doesn't make it 3D, does it?
And then you throw in time and it's 4D? I can understand time actually being useful and it does make sense that it would add another dimension, but i would call the end result 3D, not 4D. It just reminds me of when Sony stupidly said "The Xbox 360 only has 3D graphics, the PS3 will have 4D graphics." Which is just stupid marketing bullshit.
I had a nightmare about this just a couple of days ago!
I was in some icy place like the arctic or something, looking at the Aurora Borealis, which was beautiful, and then i saw one point get really bright and then in an instant i realized it was a meteorite and it was coming right for me. It landed about 5 feet from me and I had only enough time to be incredibly frightened and then try to turn to run, but it hit before i could even turn, and then rather than just ending, the dream sort of froze, and I had this terrible feeling that everything was over and I hadn't been able to do anything about it.
I woke up with chills, it was really fucking creepy. I almost never have nightmares either, and I've never had one like that. It was so real and just really impressed the helplessness we have when something like that is happening.
It's even weirder that it happened in real life. I don't really believe in premonitions but that is weird. -Taylor
I would think so. It seems like everyone is using either 192.168.0.0/24 or 192.168.1.0/24 subnets and once in a while somebody has set up 10.0.0.0/24 subnet so your internal addresses wouldn't be that hard to guess. With IPv6 we could forget all this NAT crap and use "real" IP addresses.
Hmm, that is pretty cool actually, I never realized that we could just forgo NAT completely, but it makes sense! Man, that would be nice. -Taylor
Isn't this the definition of a vulnerability or weakness in the client software? Just because you don't see xxxx as a threat in advance doesn't mean someone won't eventually use it as one.
Agreed. Clearly if it is susceptible to attacks, that is a "weakness". -Taylor
Knowing basically nothing about anything involved, i see address space limitations are a partial issue here - does that mean some use of IPv6 would help somewhere somehow? -Taylor
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Wasn't TCP designed for just this? Guaranteed transmission?
I'm being extremely pedantic, but there is no such thing as guaranteed transmission. The best protocol in the world won't help you if the connection breaks!
I'll go back into my hole now....
-Taylor
I just took a look at it (watched a few minutes of a show) in a basic (no extensions, no nothing) install of IE. No banner ads. Maybe logged in people don't get them? Or maybe they're being inserted somewhere along the way (virus or your provider).
I just clicked on a Simpsons episode and I got one. It was an OLPC ad, which was the sponsor for that episode (i.e. the normal commercials in that episode were for OLPC also). When i have seen banner ads, it has always been the same as the sponsoring company.
It's definitely not a virus and I can't possibly imagine my ISP is inserting it in the page, since it looks well placed and is always the same as the sponsoring company for that episode.
I was not logged in, so that may be it.
Here's another grab when i clicked again and got a USO sponsored episode:
http://tlalexander.com/hulu.jpg
So i dunno when it happens, but I can see why that would certainly be worth more.
-Taylor
Err, what? I've never seen a banner ad on Hulu, even when I drop to Chrome (no ad-block).
Hulu ads are interstitials, just like on TV. Sometimes they are exactly ads that I've seen on TV also. They cut in at about the same places too. The only difference is that they only last a few seconds rather than a couple minutes per commercial break.
Aside from that, I don't see how it's obvious that if there were some ad sitting there for the entire show, that it would be more expensive than an interstitial placement.
Uh, well, look again. They *DO* have banner ads. And it can be annoying because when you hit "lower lights", the ad doesn't get dimmed, so it stands out even more.
I don't think all advertisers choose to have a banner ad, but i know I've seen them a few times at least.
-Taylor
$100M for a powertrain manufacturing plant in the SF Bay Area
How on earth can that be the cheapest place to manufacture something?
I suspect the factory location is more political than practical ("I've love to help you get that loan, but you know, it'd sure be nice if you located that factory in my state").
They're building it in Alviso, near Milpitas, on a plot of land that no one has built on because it's right next to a dump. I've you've ever driven through milpitas you know it, it smells horrible over there, all the time.
So they build a plant on land no one wants, and they get to have manufacturing near their engineers, which is really a boon for efficiency.
So it's not bad.
Plus, everyone gets to stay in the bay area, which is probably the real reason they did it!
-Taylor
How is funding a boutique luxury car manufacturer at the rate of half a billion similar to funding interstates, military, postal service, etc.? Tesla does not even hope to provide shared infrastructure or essential services to the country as do these programs. I don't get it.
I am so sick of this argument! They are NOT just a boutique luxury car manufacturer, they started that way to get enough money for their company but they are now working on selling the first truly viable all electric family sedan, that is within the range of most other nice sedans like Audis, etc, which many familys have.
They are the first company with the balls to say FU to the oil companies and actually do some real innovative work, and they deserve every fucking penny of what they got.
While every other automaker in the world has treated electric cars like a curiosity, Tesla came right out and saw them as the future. If anyone *doesn't* deserve the money, it's the major automakers that ignored anything efficient until oil blew up and being green became fashionable.
-Taylor
In order to prevent SPAMbots once and for all, you should require that everyone interested in contacting you first drive to the next geohash http://www.wiki.xkcd.com/geohashing/Main_Page in the region of your choosing, wearing a lumberjack outfit and carrying a case of jolt cola.
Then, and only then, does the read quest begin...
-Taylor
Dammit, I misspelled "real"! Grr.
-Taylor
In order to prevent SPAMbots once and for all, you should require that everyone interested in contacting you first drive to the next geohash http://www.wiki.xkcd.com/geohashing/Main_Page in the region of your choosing, wearing a lumberjack outfit and carrying a case of jolt cola.
Then, and only then, does the read quest begin...
-Taylor
This isn't quite what you want, but I have a $30 6 drive caddy (with 4 drives atm) and a $70 4 port internal SATA card. I just run long SATA cables to it, but it was cheaper than any single-cable solution i found, so that may not be a bad way to go.
One thing I noticed though was that I actually have enough room for all 9 of my hard drives inside my case! I may migrate them in.
And yes, before you say it, that is certainly quite a bit of porn!
-Taylor
If you had no format knowledge, and someone told you you could have HD DVD or Blu-Ray, which would you pick? Probably the one you thought you knew, High Definition DVD. You might even think it was more compatible with your existing DVD stuff. Blu Ray? What's that?
Actually, HD-DVD *is* more compatible with existing DVD stuff, in that a standard DVD can be pressed onto one side of the disc, since HD-DVD uses the same fab as a standard DVD. That's also why it was cheaper.
Blu-Ray never did that, and I'm not sure they easily could, since the fab is all different.
I do think that HD-DVD should just come back - their discs are so damn cheap now that if they just kept them that way instead of gouging people, they might actually stay on top!
But i just miss that plucky little format!
-Taylor
Pretty much everything HTC makes these days... The Touch Diamond, the Touch Pro, the Touch HD, the Diamond 2, the Touch Pro 2. Not to mention stuff like the Samsung Omnia...
Ah, well that's nice.
But still, don't get me started on windows mobile... Nice hardware can't help a crap OS.
And either way, none of that changes my original point, which is that it's asinine for AT&T to come out with a 320x240 android phone (or any smartphone for that matter) and it probably has to do with pressure from microsoft and apple or some bullshit. I really wish that this whole fucking cartel mentality they have was outlawed, because it sucks for us consumers!
-Taylor
"As far as smartphones go, i hear rumors that AT&T is finally coming out with an android phone this summer, and it has a *QVGA* screen!? WTF? That is horrible. the iphone and g1 have TWICE as many pixels! Why go backwards!?"
You are aware of the fact that the 320x480 that the iPhone and most Android phones use (IIRC) is also quite a step back from the VGA and WVGA (800x480) resolutions that have become pretty much standard on Windows Mobile-based phones, right? :)...
Haha, that is bullshit! I had windows mobile for 3 years in 3 phones and they were ALL 320x240 and it was horrible. What phones are you talking about?
-Taylor
Yep. I don't really get why people avoid "one" anyway though. Here in the UK, it's usually avoided because people don't want to sound "posh", since only the aristocracy really use "one". However, when people are already showing off their brains by writing a thesis or some article on the virtues of video formats on a world-renowned encyclopedia site, it makes a lot of sense to simply use one then too.
"One" isn't always correct either though. Imagine a conversation between you and someone else:
You: Hey, my friend just called.
Someone else: What did *he/she/one/they* say?
Only "they" sounds reasonable!
-Taylor
In response, Roth argued that exclusive deals enable innovation because the operator and manufacturer share the risk. He suggested that operators will ask manufacturers for certain features on phones but manufacturers will often only do so if the operator agrees to buy a certain number of phones, he said.
Corporate trusts are not supposed to decide what features go into products. That is one of the reasons that anti-trust regulation exists. Picking features and rewarding risk takers is the exclusive domain of the silent hand of the market. If you want to share the risk and get some exposure, then buy corporate bonds or non-voting shares from the handset manufacturer that pleases you. It is not a cartel or lateral monopoly's prerogative to manipulate decisions about product features.
The reason it is not the prerogative of trusts, cartels, or monopolies is because they are worse at it than the free market. Demonstrably so:
Did you notice, for example, that it took a computer company -- that had never had anything to do with cellular -- entering the market to finally get a smartphone that didn't suck into the US market?
Did you notice that the second acceptable smartphone came from a search engine company that had also never done cellular before?
Did you notice that that second smartphone got relegated to a third tier provider because the big boys were too busy sucking each others dicks to be bothered with an innovative product?
Did you notice that prior to the iPhone, America had just about the crappiest phones in the entire first world? Tiny little Taiwan was about a decade ahead of where we would be today were it not for Apple -- a complete outsider to your supposedly "innovative" little idiocracy.
You guys have been using your cartel to sit on your lazy, incompetent asses. Just like the auto manufacturers, except that Southeast Asian companies have a much harder time getting variances for cell towers than you, you fat, lazy fucks, so they haven't managed to kick your ass all up and down like they did to the auto makers.
I understand that you want to dictate features and restrain trade, but as it turns out, the free market(*) is a more efficient solution. So shove your transparent cartel rationalization up your ass and get out of my face.
Well, that's what the Senators should have said, anyway.
* Not laissez-faire, not anarchy: Adam Smith's free market, including regulation of anti-competitive behavior. Go re-read The Wealth of Nations if you doubt me.
+1 awesome.
The US cellular market still blows. It was terrible years ago and it will be forever unless something changes! I switched away from verizon because their selection was shit, and instead now I have AT&T, whose network blows compared to verizon. But I still don't have 3G on my damn phone because I want android and AT&T is too into the iPhone love to agree to do anything with android. I could switch to t-mobile but now my work is paying for AT&T, so I'm stuck with EDGE only on my unlocked G1 even though my *FLIP PHONE* 4 years ago had 3G! I used to stream the daily show!
If the manufacturers weren't so damn entangled with the carriers, they wouldn't be able to keep selling the complete shit they call most phones and there might be some real innovation to get consumer interest! I mean really, look at any cheap phone today and tell me what, if any, features it has over a cheap phone from 4 years ago!? They have pretty much stopped developing things on that end.
As far as smartphones go, i hear rumors that AT&T is finally coming out with an android phone this summer, and it has a *QVGA* screen!? WTF? That is horrible. the iphone and g1 have TWICE as many pixels! Why go backwards!?
That may not be true but either way, the US cellular market is just shit and I would LOVE for something to change!
-Taylor
They is more correct than she, if you're referring to a group.
Well, in the sense that "she" is completely incorrect when referring to a group, yes.
And "they" is technically completely incorrect when referring to one person, but people use it all the time, and I like it more than any other option (god forbid, in writing anyway, someone say "s/he"). I wish "they" was just correct.
-Taylor
Strange, apparently a "person" can only be female.
I know, I know, if it said "he" no one would notice, but obviously this person was going out of their way to say "her", so why not just go with "they"? I know it's not grammatically correct (according to an English teacher I had) but at least it works, and it should be correct.
Anyway, it just annoys me when someone goes out of their way to try to end the male gender bias only to throw in female gender bias instead of making it gender neutral.
-Taylor
this is why we need to get rid of 99% of these fucking laws and live in a free society again
Yup! Nothing says fairness like letting the big guys push everyone around!
Because that's what happens when you eliminate 99% of laws.
This reminds me of all those "punk" people that think everything would be better if we had anarchy...
Uh, yeah, it would be great if there was no transportation system and no police and no judges and everyone with a bigger stick could push me around.
I know that's not exactly what you said (you said 'these' laws, probably meaning crazy tax and payment laws) but just gutting a legal system is never a good idea, it needs to be fixed, not abandoned.
-Taylor
Whiskey is another good investment if you have such expectations. Good whiskey is difficult to make, in high demand, keeps well, and takes a very long time to make if you have only primitive equipment. (Consider the problem of seals in the still, and making pipes that don't leak lead.)
You'd probably want to make sure that it was securely packaged, and that the caps of the bottles were upright and not exposed to moisture. Doing such in the current environment is easy. After a collapse, much more difficult. And you can buy an extra liter of whiskey a week without anyone raising an eyebrow. (Try doing that with guns and ammo. And ammo doesn't store as well.)
Another good investment would be a medical degree. That one's more time consuming, but after a collapse doctors, those who know more than what drugs to prescribe anyway, will be extremely valuable. Nurses too.
Or you could apprentice yourself to a blacksmith. That would be a really valuable skill. But you'd better learn how to handle and recognize scrap metal.
Horse handling probably won't be worth bothering with in most areas for a few generations. Most of the horses will be eaten. Archery would be worthwhile, but learn to fletch your arrows at the same time. I doubt that you could learn to handle a longbow well, but it would be a good idea to learn how to teach the use of it. (Supposedly one needs to grow up with a longbow to learn it's proper use.) Having a few compound bows would be a good substitute, but you won't be able to replace them. So also get a few regular bows, and learn how to make them from wood. And which wood. (Yew is likely not to be available, so learn what's available in your area.)
Guns are a strictly short term answer. (So is whiskey.) Both only buy you time to establish yourself in a community...and you'll NEED a community. Self defense by an individual is a recipe for dying out within one generation.
I would think carpentry and farming are two of the most universally needed fields. People need to eat and have shelter, so those are really useful.
But all this talk of collapse is bullshit anyway.
-Taylor
But how often do you feel like eating a bar of gold while walking to the train station?
All the time!
-Taylor
I believe your premonition. I think for you it wasn't about the boy, it was about something else, and the boy's experience was just the same kind of image but not in a dream.
I don't think premonitions can be trusted to tell you what to do - they don't point in the direction of right and wrong. And desiring them is generally unhealthy and dangerous, so its just as well for them to be rare and for people to be skeptical. But it might be a useful warning if you do the right thing with it.
Yeah I know I'm likely to get modded crazy by people who don't know WTF I'm talking about, and for being unwilling to publicly post more supporting data. I've already heard all the arguments.
Yeah, it's one of those things, it's hard to quantify but even though I'm very scientific normally, I don't rule out things like this as simply being beyond the understanding of current science.
When I was young (about 8 years old), I had a dream the house was on fire and I asked my mom to make sure there were no oily rags under the kitchen sink.
The next day we woke up and found out that los angeles was burning - the big 1992 fire they had that raged forever.
It was weird.
I don't know what my dream was about and maybe everything is coincidence but you just get that feeling... that maybe it isn't.
-Taylor
Got you beat; I'm coming out with a 5.00000001 dimension database.
Fuck!
But seriously - my other post was modded troll? It was supposed to be funny!
And it was also supposed to be a bit serious - saying that adding twitter messages and the like makes it 3D is just silly. It't just another table, which is cool and could be extremely useful, but that doesn't make it 3D, does it?
And then you throw in time and it's 4D? I can understand time actually being useful and it does make sense that it would add another dimension, but i would call the end result 3D, not 4D. It just reminds me of when Sony stupidly said "The Xbox 360 only has 3D graphics, the PS3 will have 4D graphics." Which is just stupid marketing bullshit.
I was seriously not trying to troll.
-Taylor
I had a nightmare about this just a couple of days ago!
I was in some icy place like the arctic or something, looking at the Aurora Borealis, which was beautiful, and then i saw one point get really bright and then in an instant i realized it was a meteorite and it was coming right for me. It landed about 5 feet from me and I had only enough time to be incredibly frightened and then try to turn to run, but it hit before i could even turn, and then rather than just ending, the dream sort of froze, and I had this terrible feeling that everything was over and I hadn't been able to do anything about it.
I woke up with chills, it was really fucking creepy. I almost never have nightmares either, and I've never had one like that. It was so real and just really impressed the helplessness we have when something like that is happening.
It's even weirder that it happened in real life. I don't really believe in premonitions but that is weird.
-Taylor
I'm coming out with a five-dimensional database.
-Taylor
I would think so. It seems like everyone is using either 192.168.0.0/24 or 192.168.1.0/24 subnets and once in a while somebody has set up 10.0.0.0/24 subnet so your internal addresses wouldn't be that hard to guess. With IPv6 we could forget all this NAT crap and use "real" IP addresses.
Hmm, that is pretty cool actually, I never realized that we could just forgo NAT completely, but it makes sense! Man, that would be nice.
-Taylor
Isn't this the definition of a vulnerability or weakness in the client software? Just because you don't see xxxx as a threat in advance doesn't mean someone won't eventually use it as one.
Agreed. Clearly if it is susceptible to attacks, that is a "weakness".
-Taylor
Knowing basically nothing about anything involved, i see address space limitations are a partial issue here - does that mean some use of IPv6 would help somewhere somehow?
-Taylor