I've had the chance to do some travel and some of that travel has taken me into conflict areas. I am no expert but, in my opinion, taking away the ability to earn at least a little money is only going to hurt the mostly innocent bystanders. It's not like they're gonna be running out of bullets and guns any time soon - no matter how much money you don't give 'em. One thing I've noticed (and I've been places where the State Department somehow gets my number and calls me to warn me and tell me that they'll be of no help) is that they've got plenty of firearms and loads of ammunition.
If "Mathew" or "Gabriel" (some of them seem keen on Biblical names in this specific area) can afford a dozen ammo boxes - and he's got not a whole hell of a lot and isn't even a member of a militia or even a militant, then I think they'll be able to keep this going for quite a while despite us not buying their minerals.
> That sounds like more of an effort than just checking where the tungsten comes from.
Yes, yes that does sound like it. However... I've actually written a lot of proposals. I gotta tell you, you should look at what those words really mean.
Hell, just put a donate button somewhere on the page. Not that long ago, I was tooling around this here information superhighway when I came across a site about model trains. These guys had figured out all about 'em and even had figured out a way to modify the controls and had controlling and scheduling software they wrote themselves. They were giving it away. I didn't download a copy because I don't actually think I own a model train and I'm reasonably sure I don't own a whole bunch of trains or even a set of tracks. However, they were a passionate bunch - you could tell by their pictures. So, I sent 'em a donation. That's but one example and yes, yes I was a little high at the time.
They do... I was invited to watch a video on one of the kid's laptops and the damned thing had ads. It's not my kid but I still fixed it right away. That was unacceptable.
"But that's the browser my teacher told me to us!" "No, kid... You tell your teacher that she's a crack-head. Nobody uses Safari."
Well, they're not my kids. I just spoil 'em and live vicariously through their exploits.
Oh that's one of many ways. Hell, you could have near instant-updates to some device. I was also thinking some sort of security guard situation - the dude that walks around at night and carries a device. They used to use keys and turn locks to show they'd checked an area, now they slide a card. They've got lights over all those things. Maybe you want to know where a person is in a hospital, give someone a device that gives directions indoors, all sorts of things. Note: Those also have things doing them but more data is often wanted.
I'm still not sure why they think we're going to be fooled into thinking this is going to take over wireless. That's just silly.
The survey would be *this* survey - it's the subject of the thread. (It's even in your title bar. If you have it enabled.)
And no, a watered down sub-set is not teaching civics. No, social studies is not teaching civics. More importantly, no - rote memory is not teaching civics either. It's unfortunate if you do not see the difference or importance. I'll try to articulate it one more time and I'll try to make sure it's clear.
It is imperative that you not only know your rights but why you have them, based on what actions, and what they mean in the future. You should know your obligations and duties associated with them - and see why they're important to carry out. This is a rhetorical question, do you understand why it is essential that courts are public (or should be, with few reasonable limits)? If you do not take the time to observe the courts, you have not been taught civics.
I have a house in Florida, it's right on the coast and this message is typed to you from there. My *home* is in the NW mountains of Maine. I will always have water, food, energy. Well, always meaning for as long as I am alive. Yes, yes I did give this sort of thing serious consideration when deciding where to retire.
Oh, and if you're a billionaire, you could snap up all the coal firms in the world right now for $150 million and just sit on the coal, because we need to keep all fossil fuels in the ground, unless you want your waterfront home to be underwater.
Cheap, really.
Slashdot has seemingly eaten your citation for that $150 million comment. Perhaps you can repost it along with links to where someone who might be interested could buy all these coal assets. I am not a billionaire or even close to it but I've got a couple of dollars and a lot of people I call friends. 'Cause if I can buy up all the coal firms for $150 million then I'd probably be pretty interested in talking to a few friends. Oh, you won't like the outcome but we'd certainly be interested in buying it. I'll start making phone calls tonight if you've got a citation for that.
I checked Google, by the way. Err... I'm not actually seeing anything close to that? I'm thinking you're at least one, maybe two, orders of magnitude off. 'Cause, you know, if it's *only* 150 million USD then I think I might be able to scrounge that up. Or have you not seen a train lately?
I don't have the equipment so I just used my GPS. Where my house in Florida is, is just about 27' higher than the water - and I'm right on the beech, it's a steep angle here and a bit of a bluff. So, it probably won't be millions (I'm too lazy to do the math but it's about 800 cm and a few more, say 820 cm). So, in 1000 years it might be under water but it's likely to be at risk from storm surges sooner than that if, of course, the trend continues. I have no idea about Arizona and I'm way too lazy to Google. And that's assuming the water will actually be *able* to rise that much.
The 1970s were an interesting times. Yes, yes I can dance like Travolta. Well, no... I'd break a hip these days.
At any rate, to the point!
I dated a girl named Nature. She was not that bright but she sure was handy. She was easily fooled. Also, we did discuss children.
Okay, so it wasn't a very good point. Except, you can fool nature. Given a few more years, some more alcohol or coke, and a little bit more insanity and I'd surely have been able to fool Mother Nature too.
I think you're missing the point. The point is, what if you only want a connection that's limited in scope? What if I don't *want* you to intercept the data but still make that data somehow available? Perhaps it could be used in some form of authentication to go along with a device to control access? That is one such instance where one might want something like this.
Give me a few hours, a little weed, and a couple of minutes at TV Tropes and I'll come up with a few dozen more. No, the premise that it's gonna replace wireless is kind of silly but the authors appear to be financially motivated.
However, it certainly has potential uses. Couple it with read-only devices and I can think of a few more ways to make it useful. Hell, done in more interesting ways - think of it as a relatively innocuous light bulb or, worse, a fairly ubiquitous and innocuous light bulb... You are not the intended customer. I've no idea why they'd want to try to market it to you.
What about when you *want* a signal that's confined to a small area and easily blocked by disallowing visual access? No, it's not perfect for everything and expecting it to be so is kind of dumb (and not your fault, look at the thread's title) but that doesn't mean it isn't potentially a neat thing.
The terminal is *usually* mapped to CTRL + ALT + T with *most* distros that I've actually dug into. I've noticed one that didn't do that, I think I've made it so it *does* do that on that VM. I can dig it back out. I didn't check it on all of 'em nor have I tried all of 'em. I'm pretty sure that if I can get that close to the device, I can take a minute to figure out what the OS is. Hell, I can probably find the layout and then write a shim and mirror it over a replicated desktop and map mouse movements, all with something the size of a Pi - and I'm not even remotely skilled. If I can do that... If there's a command prompt of any type then, well... There's usually a shortcut to bring it up.
It has been a while but you used to be able to hit CTRL + TAB, then TAB, then down either two or three times and press Enter. That will open IE, OE is at the top, and MSN is the second one down (I think?) - on a default Windows install that is "locked down" so you can't use a mouse. It works even if you can't *see* the mouse or even bring up the desktop. It worked for 98, 98se, ME, NT, and 2k (though I think those had the IE icon moved so it was just two down button presses). I have not tried it with Vista, 7, etc... It probably works. I'm pretty sure that was the combination? I've not used Windows in a while so I can't really go check that for you.
Ah well... Yeah, you can do a lot with being able to intercept and inject at an input level. If you can read what's going through it AND alter or replace that input, you damned well own the device. If not, do some logging and you will.
Hah! It's an awesome game. LOL It's addictive but I finally broke my addiction a while back. Stay away from the RNG. Just... Just trust me on this one. Oh, you might do well for a while - even if you try the Martingale method... It's an unfortunate thing but inevitable that it will bite you - I'm not so sure that it's actually random, I'd like to see that code...
Err... I wasn't intending for you to play but there's an odd number of Mormons there. At least there were, quite a few of whom were dedicated players and I'm assuming they still are. However, if you *do* get into the game, let me know. Oh no, seriously, let me know. I'll send you a few meat and get you started on your way to an addiction all your own. *sighs* Seriously, let me know if you do get into it and intend to keep playing. I've got a character worth millions and millions and millions of meat. I have to keep it in items, otherwise I spend it in the RNG because I'm gonna figure that algorithm out one of these days.
No, really... I've screen-scraped and kept records, logged it by inserting it in the HTML, and even helped write a few tools to enable others. *sighs* I hate that thing... It's on the wrong side of the tracks, in the casino. I think you need a ticket and to be level 9. I don't know, I haven't played much in years. I've got hundreds of millions of meat put into that RNG. I'm "good" right now or so I think I left it. My lifetime's only down to like -72 million. It has been a full order of magnitude worse. I was in the positive at one point. That didn't last long.
I know this is gonna sound strange, but when it comes to input devices like keyboards and mice, I've had really good luck with Microsoft. I dunno who's making 'em or if they're just rebadged OEM stuff but they're pretty good. I noticed quite by accident and not entirely intentionally. They're good enough that I've stuck with 'em for a long time and have been really happy given the times I've had to use other products.
I want to know who the hell is gonna eat all these apples? No, really... Other than a fairly short part of the year and at an apple processing company, where are they gonna get enough apples for this?
As an aside, I had a hell of a time figuring it out based on the title alone. I was really curious as how they figured out when an iPhone was rotten.
Heh! The goal was to make you chuckle and maybe go, "What the hell?" I was bored and you were there. Oddly, my handle comes from a game as well - but it's a table top RPG. I am also a Doctor but no... I'm not a medical doctor. It's always been a problem because I've been introduced as Dr. D. and had many, many people ask me about medical issues. Even after I point out that I'm not a medical doctor, they'll say, "Yeah, but you must be smart." No, I'm not even really all that smart and I have no idea if that mole is benign. I've often wondered if medical doctors get asked questions about applied mathematics.
Yes, a whole subject by itself - and all by itself. I'd suggest we consider State specific and Federal level civics course. And yes, just civics - not rolled up with "social studies." Just civics. Just your rights, obligations, and how they came to be and why they're important.
As for scholastics, yes - i do have some involvements, up to and including observing and reading the curriculum for a local district and a private school. I've not just done so in that one particular area - but in every area that I've lived for any length of time. None of them teach civics. Including it as a watered down version with a quick couple of tests is not civics. That's like saying that learning Newtonian Physics is learning Physics. It is not. At least not in any meaningful way.
If I had to make a suggestion, and I do not, then I'd suggest that they consider a couple of classes. One might be a fairly rough outline in their early years and the latter might be much more in-depth and done in such a way as to tie into US History but as an entirely separate course. It should not be rolled into one. The evidence for this is in this very survey, the comments at the news sites, the callers on talk radio, and the comments on this very board.
Civics. All by itself. I'd submit that it's a definite core subject and should have appropriate resources devoted to it. No, that's not social studies. Civics. Just Civics. They could probably go a little faster if they tied it in so they were learning the history around it at the same time in a separate class.
The suggestions comment was cute. I don't have any suggestions on how to eliminate cancer but I sure as hell can accurately point out that cancer's leading to a whole lot of dead people. The absurd part is you point to it being (albeit wrapped up with other subjects) taught as if that's a meaningful statistic. It's not being taught. It might be on the curriculum (albeit wrapped up with other subjects) but it sure as hell isn't being taught. If you need evidence for that, I point to this Pew survey.
You might want to rethink the partisan thing. I've found more supporters on NPR than I've found on Fox New Radio. (I've been listening to see what the differences are and the entertainment value.) It doesn't even remotely appear to be just the Republicans supporting this. No, I'm not a Republican - not even close.
I used to give Slashdot money once in a while but it never seemed to listen to my settings so I'd burn through it quickly. Maybe they need to get that figured out and they *might* be able to rely on less ad revenue. They also don't prohibit the use of ad-blocking here. They could, perhaps, consider avoiding linking to sites that disallow access with ad-blocking enabled.
However, I'd submit that the onus is on the submitter and the firehose voters to check to ensure the links don't go to sites that disallow visits from people with ad-blockers. On a personal note, I simply close the browser tabs to those sites. I could work around 'em but it's their property and if they say I have to access it in a certain way then I'm inclined to respect that request.
Note: I use Opera. That doesn't prohibit me from changing the URL from http to cache. Then, I am not accessing their property.
LOL No, that's not Libertarianism. Libertarianism is about ensuring that the individual is most able to use their liberties to maximize their appreciation of their freedoms. It's right there in the title.
Now, there are many ways to do this. One is minarchy, that's one proposal but one that tends to ignore the commons. The commons need to be protected because *everyone* (or at least ideally) should be able to best use their freedoms.
Let's establish a few definitions - if they don't work for you then let me know. Freedom, liberty, and rights... You are free to kill me. You are not at liberty to kill me. If I'm trying to harm you, you have a right to kill me.
A good example, "Give me liberty or give me death!" Note, he's not saying "give me freedom!" Freedom is taken by force. If you are in jail, you are not free. If you are in jail, you are not at liberty to go free. If you are released from jail, you have a right to go free.
If your quote is to be believed, they'd say they were irrational (which is a way of saying wrong, I guess). Morals are largely situational things and anyone who speculates or believes we're at the pinnacle of morality, at this moment in time, is so unaware of history and so egotistical that they're not to be taken seriously. It's a horrible quote and definition and you should be ashamed for using it.;-)
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I've had the chance to do some travel and some of that travel has taken me into conflict areas. I am no expert but, in my opinion, taking away the ability to earn at least a little money is only going to hurt the mostly innocent bystanders. It's not like they're gonna be running out of bullets and guns any time soon - no matter how much money you don't give 'em. One thing I've noticed (and I've been places where the State Department somehow gets my number and calls me to warn me and tell me that they'll be of no help) is that they've got plenty of firearms and loads of ammunition.
If "Mathew" or "Gabriel" (some of them seem keen on Biblical names in this specific area) can afford a dozen ammo boxes - and he's got not a whole hell of a lot and isn't even a member of a militia or even a militant, then I think they'll be able to keep this going for quite a while despite us not buying their minerals.
> That sounds like more of an effort than just checking where the tungsten comes from.
Yes, yes that does sound like it. However... I've actually written a lot of proposals. I gotta tell you, you should look at what those words really mean.
Hell, just put a donate button somewhere on the page. Not that long ago, I was tooling around this here information superhighway when I came across a site about model trains. These guys had figured out all about 'em and even had figured out a way to modify the controls and had controlling and scheduling software they wrote themselves. They were giving it away. I didn't download a copy because I don't actually think I own a model train and I'm reasonably sure I don't own a whole bunch of trains or even a set of tracks. However, they were a passionate bunch - you could tell by their pictures. So, I sent 'em a donation. That's but one example and yes, yes I was a little high at the time.
They do... I was invited to watch a video on one of the kid's laptops and the damned thing had ads. It's not my kid but I still fixed it right away. That was unacceptable.
"But that's the browser my teacher told me to us!"
"No, kid... You tell your teacher that she's a crack-head. Nobody uses Safari."
Well, they're not my kids. I just spoil 'em and live vicariously through their exploits.
Oh that's one of many ways. Hell, you could have near instant-updates to some device. I was also thinking some sort of security guard situation - the dude that walks around at night and carries a device. They used to use keys and turn locks to show they'd checked an area, now they slide a card. They've got lights over all those things. Maybe you want to know where a person is in a hospital, give someone a device that gives directions indoors, all sorts of things. Note: Those also have things doing them but more data is often wanted.
I'm still not sure why they think we're going to be fooled into thinking this is going to take over wireless. That's just silly.
The survey would be *this* survey - it's the subject of the thread. (It's even in your title bar. If you have it enabled.)
And no, a watered down sub-set is not teaching civics. No, social studies is not teaching civics. More importantly, no - rote memory is not teaching civics either. It's unfortunate if you do not see the difference or importance. I'll try to articulate it one more time and I'll try to make sure it's clear.
It is imperative that you not only know your rights but why you have them, based on what actions, and what they mean in the future. You should know your obligations and duties associated with them - and see why they're important to carry out. This is a rhetorical question, do you understand why it is essential that courts are public (or should be, with few reasonable limits)? If you do not take the time to observe the courts, you have not been taught civics.
I have a house in Florida, it's right on the coast and this message is typed to you from there. My *home* is in the NW mountains of Maine. I will always have water, food, energy. Well, always meaning for as long as I am alive. Yes, yes I did give this sort of thing serious consideration when deciding where to retire.
Well, only the first one. After that, they've got electricity from the power plant.
Oh, and if you're a billionaire, you could snap up all the coal firms in the world right now for $150 million and just sit on the coal, because we need to keep all fossil fuels in the ground, unless you want your waterfront home to be underwater.
Cheap, really.
Slashdot has seemingly eaten your citation for that $150 million comment. Perhaps you can repost it along with links to where someone who might be interested could buy all these coal assets. I am not a billionaire or even close to it but I've got a couple of dollars and a lot of people I call friends. 'Cause if I can buy up all the coal firms for $150 million then I'd probably be pretty interested in talking to a few friends. Oh, you won't like the outcome but we'd certainly be interested in buying it. I'll start making phone calls tonight if you've got a citation for that.
I checked Google, by the way. Err... I'm not actually seeing anything close to that? I'm thinking you're at least one, maybe two, orders of magnitude off. 'Cause, you know, if it's *only* 150 million USD then I think I might be able to scrounge that up. Or have you not seen a train lately?
I don't have the equipment so I just used my GPS. Where my house in Florida is, is just about 27' higher than the water - and I'm right on the beech, it's a steep angle here and a bit of a bluff. So, it probably won't be millions (I'm too lazy to do the math but it's about 800 cm and a few more, say 820 cm). So, in 1000 years it might be under water but it's likely to be at risk from storm surges sooner than that if, of course, the trend continues. I have no idea about Arizona and I'm way too lazy to Google. And that's assuming the water will actually be *able* to rise that much.
The 1970s were an interesting times. Yes, yes I can dance like Travolta. Well, no... I'd break a hip these days.
At any rate, to the point!
I dated a girl named Nature. She was not that bright but she sure was handy. She was easily fooled. Also, we did discuss children.
Okay, so it wasn't a very good point. Except, you can fool nature. Given a few more years, some more alcohol or coke, and a little bit more insanity and I'd surely have been able to fool Mother Nature too.
I think you're missing the point. The point is, what if you only want a connection that's limited in scope? What if I don't *want* you to intercept the data but still make that data somehow available? Perhaps it could be used in some form of authentication to go along with a device to control access? That is one such instance where one might want something like this.
Give me a few hours, a little weed, and a couple of minutes at TV Tropes and I'll come up with a few dozen more. No, the premise that it's gonna replace wireless is kind of silly but the authors appear to be financially motivated.
However, it certainly has potential uses. Couple it with read-only devices and I can think of a few more ways to make it useful. Hell, done in more interesting ways - think of it as a relatively innocuous light bulb or, worse, a fairly ubiquitous and innocuous light bulb... You are not the intended customer. I've no idea why they'd want to try to market it to you.
What about when you *want* a signal that's confined to a small area and easily blocked by disallowing visual access? No, it's not perfect for everything and expecting it to be so is kind of dumb (and not your fault, look at the thread's title) but that doesn't mean it isn't potentially a neat thing.
The terminal is *usually* mapped to CTRL + ALT + T with *most* distros that I've actually dug into. I've noticed one that didn't do that, I think I've made it so it *does* do that on that VM. I can dig it back out. I didn't check it on all of 'em nor have I tried all of 'em. I'm pretty sure that if I can get that close to the device, I can take a minute to figure out what the OS is. Hell, I can probably find the layout and then write a shim and mirror it over a replicated desktop and map mouse movements, all with something the size of a Pi - and I'm not even remotely skilled. If I can do that... If there's a command prompt of any type then, well... There's usually a shortcut to bring it up.
It has been a while but you used to be able to hit CTRL + TAB, then TAB, then down either two or three times and press Enter. That will open IE, OE is at the top, and MSN is the second one down (I think?) - on a default Windows install that is "locked down" so you can't use a mouse. It works even if you can't *see* the mouse or even bring up the desktop. It worked for 98, 98se, ME, NT, and 2k (though I think those had the IE icon moved so it was just two down button presses). I have not tried it with Vista, 7, etc... It probably works. I'm pretty sure that was the combination? I've not used Windows in a while so I can't really go check that for you.
Ah well... Yeah, you can do a lot with being able to intercept and inject at an input level. If you can read what's going through it AND alter or replace that input, you damned well own the device. If not, do some logging and you will.
Hah! It's an awesome game. LOL It's addictive but I finally broke my addiction a while back. Stay away from the RNG. Just... Just trust me on this one. Oh, you might do well for a while - even if you try the Martingale method... It's an unfortunate thing but inevitable that it will bite you - I'm not so sure that it's actually random, I'd like to see that code...
Err... I wasn't intending for you to play but there's an odd number of Mormons there. At least there were, quite a few of whom were dedicated players and I'm assuming they still are. However, if you *do* get into the game, let me know. Oh no, seriously, let me know. I'll send you a few meat and get you started on your way to an addiction all your own. *sighs* Seriously, let me know if you do get into it and intend to keep playing. I've got a character worth millions and millions and millions of meat. I have to keep it in items, otherwise I spend it in the RNG because I'm gonna figure that algorithm out one of these days.
No, really... I've screen-scraped and kept records, logged it by inserting it in the HTML, and even helped write a few tools to enable others. *sighs* I hate that thing... It's on the wrong side of the tracks, in the casino. I think you need a ticket and to be level 9. I don't know, I haven't played much in years. I've got hundreds of millions of meat put into that RNG. I'm "good" right now or so I think I left it. My lifetime's only down to like -72 million. It has been a full order of magnitude worse. I was in the positive at one point. That didn't last long.
Ah, one of my favorite quotes is from a buddy of mine who had lived in the Deep South... "I ain't never scared."
Your link doesn't resolve. Yes, yes I did click it. I figured someone had to.
I know this is gonna sound strange, but when it comes to input devices like keyboards and mice, I've had really good luck with Microsoft. I dunno who's making 'em or if they're just rebadged OEM stuff but they're pretty good. I noticed quite by accident and not entirely intentionally. They're good enough that I've stuck with 'em for a long time and have been really happy given the times I've had to use other products.
I want to know who the hell is gonna eat all these apples? No, really... Other than a fairly short part of the year and at an apple processing company, where are they gonna get enough apples for this?
As an aside, I had a hell of a time figuring it out based on the title alone. I was really curious as how they figured out when an iPhone was rotten.
And, for a completely off-topic link:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
Heh! The goal was to make you chuckle and maybe go, "What the hell?" I was bored and you were there. Oddly, my handle comes from a game as well - but it's a table top RPG. I am also a Doctor but no... I'm not a medical doctor. It's always been a problem because I've been introduced as Dr. D. and had many, many people ask me about medical issues. Even after I point out that I'm not a medical doctor, they'll say, "Yeah, but you must be smart." No, I'm not even really all that smart and I have no idea if that mole is benign. I've often wondered if medical doctors get asked questions about applied mathematics.
Yes, a whole subject by itself - and all by itself. I'd suggest we consider State specific and Federal level civics course. And yes, just civics - not rolled up with "social studies." Just civics. Just your rights, obligations, and how they came to be and why they're important.
As for scholastics, yes - i do have some involvements, up to and including observing and reading the curriculum for a local district and a private school. I've not just done so in that one particular area - but in every area that I've lived for any length of time. None of them teach civics. Including it as a watered down version with a quick couple of tests is not civics. That's like saying that learning Newtonian Physics is learning Physics. It is not. At least not in any meaningful way.
If I had to make a suggestion, and I do not, then I'd suggest that they consider a couple of classes. One might be a fairly rough outline in their early years and the latter might be much more in-depth and done in such a way as to tie into US History but as an entirely separate course. It should not be rolled into one. The evidence for this is in this very survey, the comments at the news sites, the callers on talk radio, and the comments on this very board.
Civics. All by itself. I'd submit that it's a definite core subject and should have appropriate resources devoted to it. No, that's not social studies. Civics. Just Civics. They could probably go a little faster if they tied it in so they were learning the history around it at the same time in a separate class.
The suggestions comment was cute. I don't have any suggestions on how to eliminate cancer but I sure as hell can accurately point out that cancer's leading to a whole lot of dead people. The absurd part is you point to it being (albeit wrapped up with other subjects) taught as if that's a meaningful statistic. It's not being taught. It might be on the curriculum (albeit wrapped up with other subjects) but it sure as hell isn't being taught. If you need evidence for that, I point to this Pew survey.
The NSL, while a nefarious beast, doesn't work quite like that. That doesn't mean they won't do it. It just means that won't be the mechanism.
You might want to rethink the partisan thing. I've found more supporters on NPR than I've found on Fox New Radio. (I've been listening to see what the differences are and the entertainment value.) It doesn't even remotely appear to be just the Republicans supporting this. No, I'm not a Republican - not even close.
Wait, Slashdot has ads? ;-)
I used to give Slashdot money once in a while but it never seemed to listen to my settings so I'd burn through it quickly. Maybe they need to get that figured out and they *might* be able to rely on less ad revenue. They also don't prohibit the use of ad-blocking here. They could, perhaps, consider avoiding linking to sites that disallow access with ad-blocking enabled.
However, I'd submit that the onus is on the submitter and the firehose voters to check to ensure the links don't go to sites that disallow visits from people with ad-blockers. On a personal note, I simply close the browser tabs to those sites. I could work around 'em but it's their property and if they say I have to access it in a certain way then I'm inclined to respect that request.
Note: I use Opera. That doesn't prohibit me from changing the URL from http to cache. Then, I am not accessing their property.
LOL No, that's not Libertarianism. Libertarianism is about ensuring that the individual is most able to use their liberties to maximize their appreciation of their freedoms. It's right there in the title.
Now, there are many ways to do this. One is minarchy, that's one proposal but one that tends to ignore the commons. The commons need to be protected because *everyone* (or at least ideally) should be able to best use their freedoms.
Let's establish a few definitions - if they don't work for you then let me know. Freedom, liberty, and rights... You are free to kill me. You are not at liberty to kill me. If I'm trying to harm you, you have a right to kill me.
A good example, "Give me liberty or give me death!" Note, he's not saying "give me freedom!" Freedom is taken by force. If you are in jail, you are not free. If you are in jail, you are not at liberty to go free. If you are released from jail, you have a right to go free.
If your quote is to be believed, they'd say they were irrational (which is a way of saying wrong, I guess). Morals are largely situational things and anyone who speculates or believes we're at the pinnacle of morality, at this moment in time, is so unaware of history and so egotistical that they're not to be taken seriously. It's a horrible quote and definition and you should be ashamed for using it. ;-)