Care to provide any support for your claim that the pipeline is crossing Native American land? Best I can find is it crosses 1 mile north of the Standing Rock Reservation. (I mean, technically you ARE right, all of the land we are currently occupying was Native American land at one point. But I don't think that's what you are indicating)
Assuming I have a railroad and a pipeline running through my backyard, the difference would be likelihood of something bad happening and relative severity of each. I'll take the pipeline, all day every day.
Honest question. Is a bonafide journalist still trespassing if they are on someone else's property without permission. I didn't think a press pass gave them special privilege to go where they are not welcome.
Second question, again, honest question. What does it take to be a bonafide journalist? If I'm recording a video of some act with the intent of publishing it on youtube am I afforded the same protections that a "real journalist" would be?
It appears that the government's position in practice is that if a journalist suspects the subjects he is reporting on may commit a crime, the journalist is obligated to report them to authorities...
I wasn't there, so I can't do anything besides speculate. Was she inside the fence with the people attempting to shut off a pipeline valve? (unrelated, don't do that. It's fucking stupid) Or was she standing on public property filming? One of those would make her an accomplice, the other wouldn't.
If the cops roll up on a bank robbery in progress and you were found in the building with the people doing the robbing I'd suspect the cops aren't going to let you go because you had a video camera and claimed you were making a documentary.
Can't speak for the first one, but the second one, Deia Schlosberg, was caught trespassing with a group of individuals that were intending to "take matters into their own hands" but shutting off a valve on an in-service pipeline. (No matter your stance on the issue, this is an idiotic idea.) Here is one link. (Hard to figure out which ones are legitimate news sites, this may or may not be. When a website has a URL like "trust.org" I tend to do the opposite, but this one appears to be Reuters related.)
"In this day and age, my phone is how I keep my memory,"
Really? I know people say this shit, but do they REALLY mean it? I'm a tech guy, I love my smart phone, and my cloud storage, and everything else as much as the next guy. I have been "guilty" of snapping a picture at a concert, but that's not how I remember the concert. Do people actually go through their phones to reminisce and re-watch the inaudible, grainy, shitty video they shot from 50 rows back at the Katy Perry concert? Need a memory, take your picture, then put your god damn phone down. There are people behind you watching a concert. (And then get off my lawn)
I read that three times, first time I read "shitty", second time "shifty", then after your comment I went and ready it again... it definitely says "shitty". That's funny as hell.
If this was any other normal election cycle both of the major party candidates would have been cast aside months ago. In "normal" politics, when one major gaffe is enough to torpedo a candidate, neither of these clowns would have made it past the first primary.
who are going to first search the Internet as soon as they encounter a problem
Are you somehow suggesting that looking on the internet to see if someone else has encountered and solved the same problem is somehow inferior than spending hours (or days, or months, or years, depending on the problem) trying to solve the problem yourself? Or are you suggesting that every time someone needs a wheel for something they "re-invent" it?
In an academic environment I would condone such behavior, in the real world a company that operated that way wouldn't last a year.
Oh, Anonymous Coward, please share your wisdom so that the rest of us may bask in your bountiful knowledge of 15th century sailing and 21st century space travel.
Let's see:
1) No back-up plan if your transportation fails?
2) Not knowing what conditions will be like where you are heading?
3) Only being able to survive on what you brought on your ship?
4) WEEKS or MONTHS without constant stimulation by means of an electronic device?
Yeah, I guess Columbus really did have it worse. I guess you have a point.
I realize they haven't found water yet, but what are the chances of finding a good vintage of scotch to go with all of this breaded goodness they are going to be having up there?
So, I'm replying to a comment saying "if it's close enough to hit it from my property with anything but a sniper rifle, I'm free to shoot it" but I'm the idiot for pointing out that there might be cases where that comment doesn't make sense? Can't say I follow your logic.
I fly in my back yard all of time time. I'm well within shotgun range of 4 neighbors. Does that mean I'm automatically an asshole and automatically trying to get a peek at my neighbors daughters? Or is the possibility that I'm learning how to fly, in MY backyard, during reasonable hours? Why should I need to go get permission from my neighbor to fly a quad in my back yard?
What's wrong with the criminal process as it is today? If the neighbor thinks I am taking pictures of his daughter (whether from a quad, or from my deck using a camera with a nice zoom on it) he can call the police, and they can do their job. If I'm disturbing their peace (by flying my quad, using a chainsaw, or playing loud music) there are legal avenues for that too.
None of these situations need to involve shotguns or willful destruction of property. People taking the law into their hands is never a good thing.
So I can sit at my property line and shoot at drones in the park next to my house? Yeah, there may be a few holes in your logic. I mean, most good bird hunters could pick off a drone at 50+ yards.
No, technically you don't consume bandwidth in the exactly the same way you consume gasoline. But in his example, imagine that there was a magical gasoline fountain in North Dakota that produces an unlimited about of gasoline. All of that gasoline in ND doesn't do a bit of good for the drivers and shipping companies in Chicago. It does them no good until a pipeline is built. That pipeline isn't free to build, pipe, pumping stations, and valves all have to be purchased, then someone hast to be paid to put all of that into the ground. On top of that, people have to monitor the pipeline to make sure it is still working effectively and isn't leaking. Now you have an unlimited source of gasoline and a means to get it to Chicago. But, due to physics, that pipeline is only able to move enough gasoline to power 1,000,000 car-miles/month. You know how much it costed you to build the pipeline, you know it's life expectancy, and you know it much it costs you to operate and maintain the pipeline every month. Let's just say that works out to $1,000,000/month. Now you have unlimited gasoline, but it costs you $1/car-mile to get it to Chicago. What's the fairest way to recoup your money? Do you charge a $1000/month to everybody, regardless if they are a person driving 100 miles or shipping company that drives 10,000, or do you charge them per car-mile?
The example works with electricity, water, gasoline, mountain dew, or Internet. The only difference among them is the input cost of the product, and the physical method of getting the resource from its source to you. Yes, the Internet bytes themselves are infinite and free, but getting them from one place to the other is a finite resource that costs money and has to be paid for. The gasoline has a cost to produce as well as a cost to distribute. Both the source and distribution are finite, but you still have to cover the cost of both.
You should check your private e-mail server. It appears your user, "Anonymous Coward", has been hacked and has been spewing useless bullshit onto Slashdot ever since.
If I want to buy a widget and I'm looking for the one rated best or cheapest or whatever
Not sure what the problem is. There are a number of different sorts and filters. Sorting by price, lowest to highest, highest to lowest, and rating all appear to do what you'd think they should. The only one I question is the "relevance", I'm assuming that's the "magic" one that shows you what amazon wants you to see. (and it's the default)
Nothing here discusses their ratings being manipulated. I assume what's being discussed is how the magic sort works. And as long as you understand that what they are presenting you isn't always in your best interest, you are fine. (And as soon as you click on an item it shows you if there are other purchasing options that are potentially cheaper.)
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Care to provide any support for your claim that the pipeline is crossing Native American land? Best I can find is it crosses 1 mile north of the Standing Rock Reservation. (I mean, technically you ARE right, all of the land we are currently occupying was Native American land at one point. But I don't think that's what you are indicating)
Assuming I have a railroad and a pipeline running through my backyard, the difference would be likelihood of something bad happening and relative severity of each. I'll take the pipeline, all day every day.
Second question, again, honest question. What does it take to be a bonafide journalist? If I'm recording a video of some act with the intent of publishing it on youtube am I afforded the same protections that a "real journalist" would be?
It appears that the government's position in practice is that if a journalist suspects the subjects he is reporting on may commit a crime, the journalist is obligated to report them to authorities...
I wasn't there, so I can't do anything besides speculate. Was she inside the fence with the people attempting to shut off a pipeline valve? (unrelated, don't do that. It's fucking stupid) Or was she standing on public property filming? One of those would make her an accomplice, the other wouldn't.
If the cops roll up on a bank robbery in progress and you were found in the building with the people doing the robbing I'd suspect the cops aren't going to let you go because you had a video camera and claimed you were making a documentary.
Can't speak for the first one, but the second one, Deia Schlosberg, was caught trespassing with a group of individuals that were intending to "take matters into their own hands" but shutting off a valve on an in-service pipeline. (No matter your stance on the issue, this is an idiotic idea.) Here is one link. (Hard to figure out which ones are legitimate news sites, this may or may not be. When a website has a URL like "trust.org" I tend to do the opposite, but this one appears to be Reuters related.)
"In this day and age, my phone is how I keep my memory,"
Really? I know people say this shit, but do they REALLY mean it? I'm a tech guy, I love my smart phone, and my cloud storage, and everything else as much as the next guy. I have been "guilty" of snapping a picture at a concert, but that's not how I remember the concert. Do people actually go through their phones to reminisce and re-watch the inaudible, grainy, shitty video they shot from 50 rows back at the Katy Perry concert? Need a memory, take your picture, then put your god damn phone down. There are people behind you watching a concert. (And then get off my lawn)
That's a handy conversion if you assume that the 400 truck loads are pure raw material...
As much as I'd like a viable third choice, I'd trust a "home grown" Chinese operating system about as much as I'd trust Bill Cosby bar tending.
I read that three times, first time I read "shitty", second time "shifty", then after your comment I went and ready it again... it definitely says "shitty". That's funny as hell.
If this was any other normal election cycle both of the major party candidates would have been cast aside months ago. In "normal" politics, when one major gaffe is enough to torpedo a candidate, neither of these clowns would have made it past the first primary.
who are going to first search the Internet as soon as they encounter a problem
Are you somehow suggesting that looking on the internet to see if someone else has encountered and solved the same problem is somehow inferior than spending hours (or days, or months, or years, depending on the problem) trying to solve the problem yourself? Or are you suggesting that every time someone needs a wheel for something they "re-invent" it?
In an academic environment I would condone such behavior, in the real world a company that operated that way wouldn't last a year.
Oh, Anonymous Coward, please share your wisdom so that the rest of us may bask in your bountiful knowledge of 15th century sailing and 21st century space travel.
Let's see: 1) No back-up plan if your transportation fails? 2) Not knowing what conditions will be like where you are heading? 3) Only being able to survive on what you brought on your ship? 4) WEEKS or MONTHS without constant stimulation by means of an electronic device? Yeah, I guess Columbus really did have it worse. I guess you have a point.
I realize they haven't found water yet, but what are the chances of finding a good vintage of scotch to go with all of this breaded goodness they are going to be having up there?
Several weeks in a spaceship is going to be tedious.
Fuck, it's a good thing Columbus and crew had their iPhones with them to keep from getting bored.
I was curious if they were bringing a significant enough quantity of eggs to support this breading program. Breading isn't any good without a binder.
And Yammer teams will get their own SharePoint sites
"I can't wait to use Sharepoint more" -No one, ever.
Yeah, disregard, missed the "vertically" part of the comment. Wouldn't that have been easier to point out than resorting to third grade name calling?
So, I'm replying to a comment saying "if it's close enough to hit it from my property with anything but a sniper rifle, I'm free to shoot it" but I'm the idiot for pointing out that there might be cases where that comment doesn't make sense? Can't say I follow your logic.
I fly in my back yard all of time time. I'm well within shotgun range of 4 neighbors. Does that mean I'm automatically an asshole and automatically trying to get a peek at my neighbors daughters? Or is the possibility that I'm learning how to fly, in MY backyard, during reasonable hours? Why should I need to go get permission from my neighbor to fly a quad in my back yard?
What's wrong with the criminal process as it is today? If the neighbor thinks I am taking pictures of his daughter (whether from a quad, or from my deck using a camera with a nice zoom on it) he can call the police, and they can do their job. If I'm disturbing their peace (by flying my quad, using a chainsaw, or playing loud music) there are legal avenues for that too.
None of these situations need to involve shotguns or willful destruction of property. People taking the law into their hands is never a good thing.
So I can sit at my property line and shoot at drones in the park next to my house? Yeah, there may be a few holes in your logic. I mean, most good bird hunters could pick off a drone at 50+ yards.
You don't consume bandwidth.
No, technically you don't consume bandwidth in the exactly the same way you consume gasoline. But in his example, imagine that there was a magical gasoline fountain in North Dakota that produces an unlimited about of gasoline. All of that gasoline in ND doesn't do a bit of good for the drivers and shipping companies in Chicago. It does them no good until a pipeline is built. That pipeline isn't free to build, pipe, pumping stations, and valves all have to be purchased, then someone hast to be paid to put all of that into the ground. On top of that, people have to monitor the pipeline to make sure it is still working effectively and isn't leaking. Now you have an unlimited source of gasoline and a means to get it to Chicago. But, due to physics, that pipeline is only able to move enough gasoline to power 1,000,000 car-miles/month. You know how much it costed you to build the pipeline, you know it's life expectancy, and you know it much it costs you to operate and maintain the pipeline every month. Let's just say that works out to $1,000,000/month. Now you have unlimited gasoline, but it costs you $1/car-mile to get it to Chicago. What's the fairest way to recoup your money? Do you charge a $1000/month to everybody, regardless if they are a person driving 100 miles or shipping company that drives 10,000, or do you charge them per car-mile?
The example works with electricity, water, gasoline, mountain dew, or Internet. The only difference among them is the input cost of the product, and the physical method of getting the resource from its source to you. Yes, the Internet bytes themselves are infinite and free, but getting them from one place to the other is a finite resource that costs money and has to be paid for. The gasoline has a cost to produce as well as a cost to distribute. Both the source and distribution are finite, but you still have to cover the cost of both.
An a headphone jack?
You should check your private e-mail server. It appears your user, "Anonymous Coward", has been hacked and has been spewing useless bullshit onto Slashdot ever since.
If I want to buy a widget and I'm looking for the one rated best or cheapest or whatever
Not sure what the problem is. There are a number of different sorts and filters. Sorting by price, lowest to highest, highest to lowest, and rating all appear to do what you'd think they should. The only one I question is the "relevance", I'm assuming that's the "magic" one that shows you what amazon wants you to see. (and it's the default)
Nothing here discusses their ratings being manipulated. I assume what's being discussed is how the magic sort works. And as long as you understand that what they are presenting you isn't always in your best interest, you are fine. (And as soon as you click on an item it shows you if there are other purchasing options that are potentially cheaper.)