Comment Re:Ugh! (Score 1) 308
He mostly just shouldn't be there in the first place, all this assignation of military honor guards merely celebrates war. We should be ashamed, not proud, of our war dead.
He mostly just shouldn't be there in the first place, all this assignation of military honor guards merely celebrates war. We should be ashamed, not proud, of our war dead.
Bullets. You have to track the shit out of them. If you gave the guards at the War Memorial live ammo, it would be a complete clusterfuck.
If our government finds tracking bullets to be an arduous task, perhaps they are not qualified to have them in the first place.
What if the gun got dropped and discharged?
Then it's a miserable piece of shit. Only shitty guns discharge when dropped. Spend the money to get them a decent fucking gun, especially if they're your honor guard. There's no honor in standing there with a shitty gun. (The gun imparts no particular honor IMO, but it should at least be decent.)
What if you stopped for a picture and someone took your gun
Took your gun? Seriously? TOOK YOUR GUN? What the actual FUCK? You don't put the fucking thing down
or cut themselves on the bayonet?
If their gun doesn't have a sharp bayonet now, why would it magically gain one if you gave them bullets?
What if the magazine fell out and the ammo sprayed all over the ground? Now the person guarding is presenting the image of a drunkard scrambling around for their car keys in the dark.
What if the person you assigned to the honor guard was a total fuckup who should not be allowed to look at a gun, let alone hold one? Well gee, then I guess they shouldn't be in the fucking military. Give them a dishonorable discharge immediately. They failed to take their responsibilities seriously.
Or, you know, again, don't specify a shitty gun. Because again, an honor guard standing there holding a shitty gun is a symbol of impotence, and that's not what we want representing us.
Weird scenarios, but all significantly more likely than a schizophrenic walking up to you and shooting you in the back in cold blood on a boring Hump Day morning.
[citation needed]
If you're giving someone ammo, you're expecting them to get shot at, right? Which really means they should be wearing armour as well, not the ceremonial dress uniform
This is not about expecting them to get shot at. This is about it's fucking stupid to have a gun and no bullets. An unarmed honor guard is like a dick with no balls. How is that honorable?
Advising your users to use your own repository is not a satisfying answer.
Yes, yes it is. At least, I am satisfied by such an answer.
If there's a package in Debian, then it should be fine using it.
And if it's not fine to use it, then it should be removed from the repo, without a request from the developer.
My advice then would be to explicitely ask that the owncloud package is not synced again in any future release of Ubuntu, so you don't run into the same trouble again.
There's no technical reason they can't remove a non-required package from a release. So yes, that's the solution, but it shouldn't be the only solution.
The only computer-related business I can think of with more R&D budget is Microsoft, IBM isn't a tech company? Shut your mouth. Then again, if Cringely says it, it's probably wrong.
Amazon is clearly a business. But its model is Microsoftian EEE. Sure, you can sell through Amazon, but they keep stats and if it becomes worth it to stock what you're selling, they're going to do that. Of course, on eBay, if the Chinese see you sell a lot of what they've got, they'll start selling it directly. Then you only get to sell to people who care about shipping time and support.
Amazon is a real business, but their business model basically requires that they shut everyone else down, and not everyone wants to shop with Amazon. So they'll eventually fail if they don't find a new model.
Maybe where you are. For me registration cost is exactly the same for the 1st or the 100th car.
You didn't even mention registration cost. Moving the goalposts.
Insurance as well seems to make no difference
get a better insurer.
a car always has a base line minimum
No, no it does not. The number is different for everyone. They basically invent them, that's why they won't share their formulas. It's not because of competitive advantage. They're all fucking people in the same ways. It's to hide the fucking.
But you don't see huge cost differences between a 3 year old car with 30,0000 and one with 50,000 and, maybe wrongly, but I would prefer a newer car for safety, especially for long trips.
As long as it's new enough to have side curtain airbags, it doesn't really matter.
You don't want to leave oil sitting in your engine for long periods of time as it turns acidic.
Synthetics have less problem with this, the more synthetic they are the less problem. Run Schaeffer's or AMSOIL, because the other supposedly "full" synthetics have been tested as low as 24%. Mobil 1 was actually downranked a full grade it's such bullshit.
Also fuel goes off and can gum things like injectors, plugs, filters and pumps.
Fuel stabilizers are readily available, and will easily let gasoline keep for a year.
Which means no matter what you will be increasing your servicing costs.
Again, your logical fallacy is moving the goalposts. I said the costs don't double.
OMG, do you even have basic reading and comprehension skills?
If I didn't, I wouldn't have been treated to your stupidity.
It would take me less than five minutes to fix if it happened to me and I'm not an electronics or computing expert.
So?
The utility is free so no extortion,
There is extortion. You have to pay with your time.
Another option is simply installing a order driver
Are you sure you're not a computing expert? I don't know what an order driver is, and neither does google. It knows what driver order is, though. But you seem to think you know what you're talking about.
Not a difficult exercise for anyone with reasonable computing skills, particularly when there are step-by-step guides on the Internet for idiots.
Really? Searching for "order driver" just gets me a lot of stuff about driver order. How do we find these step-by-step guides for idiots?
I do use FTDI gear regularly in cables and on boards.
Don't we all?
It would not be a surprise if one of the several chips I have ends up being a fake but I'm not going to have a cry about it.
No, instead you'll choke on FTDI's cock and beg for more.
You really are completely failing to understand the simple concept that their has been absolutely no hardware damaged...
It's damaged (unusable by the user) until they get a tool from the people who damaged it. Sounds like extortion to me.
It will be interesting to see how this plays out in the real world but I've had enough of playing into your fantasy world.
In my fantasy world, you wouldn't defend a corporation for damaging people's hardware.
Criminal? Really? What laws are being broken exactly?
They're rendering your device unusable, which they may not do knowingly.
Have you read the license for these drivers?
That is irrelevant. You cannot give yourself rights with shrinkwrap license. The law still wins.
few people are going to spend the money to take FTDI to court over this.
If only one of them does it, they will have lost money over this.
MAY IRRETRIEVABLY DAMAGE THAT COMPONENT
Yes, if they did it by accident. If it can be shown that they did it on purpose, and that is almost certainly the case here, then it doesn't matter what they put in the license.
Actually, trolls are objectively better than most.
I think you mean "superior to", because "better than" is based on a judgement by others. You could make an objective judgement based on numbers of some sort, there.
And now that GM is controlled by the UAW, whose fault is it?
It's GM's fault that they only have two or three cars worth buying, and that they're not selling an EV.
I have done enough super high mileage trips that it would require a second car permanently on stand by. That means double insurance, tax, storage and depreciation.
it means none of those things but storage cost. The insurance for the second vehicle is reduced, and often the insurance on your primary vehicle is reduced when you add another vehicle to your policy, even if you don't decrease the primary vehicle's mileage. And you get an older vehicle for the second car, and it costs you less to buy, less in depreciation, etc.
It still might not work out, but it doesn't cost twice as much.
What do you do though when they've legislated that cars not bought in the state or that are on some blacklist can't get registered?
Then they definitely get smacked down for dicking with interstate commerce.
As a matter of fact, those states allowing fracking have reaped huge tax benefits and for the most part has helped out ordinary citizens of those states too.
in the short term, sure. But injecting refinery wastes into the ground was illegal before fracking for a reason, and that reason is that it's toxic waste.
Nonsense. Many people are not worth minimum wage. They are not worth anything at all as workers.
If you cannot find workers who are worth something as workers who will work for the wage that you're paying, then you're not paying enough. You don't need to pay less, you need to pay more.
Elliptic paraboloids for sale.
