Comment Re:Who Cares? (Score 1) 476
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Add-on wireless print servers could be a fix for some, as could a slow subnet done by hanging a slow router off the fast router.
People with a desire for speed will Ebay a lot of their old gear or Craigslist it, so those who like legacy systems can do as always and stock up.
The industrial model on which Detroit was based is obsolete, there is no reason to spend vast sums to remove obsolete infrastructure when greenfield locations in States with better climates are cheap, and the geographic advantages Detroit had many decades ago are gone.
It is perfectly reasonable to shrink Detroit, demolish obsolete housing stock and bury onsite, then leave unsupportable areas unsupported.
It was and still is.
I had an outstanding science teacher who resisted nonsensical, counter-productive standardised testing in Rutherford, NJ, and had the statistics to back up his contention. He could have caved in to the educrats and sold out his students, but he had the exemplary integrity to fight instead at considerable personal and social cost.
The school board tried to throw him under the proverbial bus, but he sued and eventually won. Without strong teacher representation he'd have been fired and many kids would have lost out both to the testing regime and by missing a stellar teacher.
There is FAR more to union protection of teachers than featherbedding.
The people to blame for many school problems and whose effect is largely ignored in the current debate are school administrations.
Here's a classic written by a (now retired) terrific science teacher who fought the Rutherford, NJ, administration over how they tested students and won in court after a protracted struggle. Steve Masone greatly inspired many of his students, self included. He had the guts to take on a pretty toxic administration when he could have just coasted and sacrificed his students instead.
The administrators concerned retired comfortably without consequences to their careers.
Programming is broadening in the way mathematics is broadening.
Substitution is hardly "dumbing down" and it's wise to offer the choice early on. If anything schools should cater more to the technically inclined.
Jet fuel is of course more abundant than plain kero, but it's also much more expensive due to additives and purity levels required for use as aviation fuel.
Folks who have access to free JP-8 drained from aircraft undergoing maintenance often run it in their diesel trucks as it's compatible with diesel engines.
Being an Old Fuck I recall when I became interested in even older tech. Folks who dig that are a self-selected group and always were.
Most people are drones who do the minimum, resist learning more than the minimum, and that's never been different.
What has changed in a wonderful way is the AVAILABILITY of information on technology old and new on the internet.Want to teach the interested about a particular technology? Make an engaging, informative Youtube video. There are many such covering old tech such as blacksmithing.
Leave out music (no one else want to hear distracting shit) and leave out the narrators face which conveys no useful information and is only ever included out of vanity. Add links to online sources interested viewers can use if their interest is piqued.
A talented fellow like Snowden should be able to lead a decent life in Russia. Why return to a nation owned by corporate globalist mafiosi who hate you? (Apologies to real mafiosi who haven't killed nearly as many people.)
Russian Slashdotters feel free to weigh in on wether Russia is the hell portrayed in the US media, or something different.
Great Bronco history read aviation geeks will enjoy.
http://www.volanteaircraft.com...
Too bad they were retired after Desert Storm (losing helicopters is apparently fine but woe betide we lose a couple of far less expensive fixed wing birds!). They are still flying elsewhere because Broncos are designed to be easy to repair and maintain. I enjoyed working on them.
If you've seen the drama "Lone Survivor", the SEALs lost comm because they didn't have a long loitering (thirsty helos don't loiter well) radio relay FAC aircraft orbiting above them and "leadership" relied on unreliable comms instead. Marcus Luttrel was eventually found with the help of his rescue beacon, but that was a day late and a dollar short for his dead buddies.
Ignored today is the solution perfected during the Viet Nam war. A Bronco could loiter, carried rockets and machine guns (and could be fitted with Sidewinders to kill enemy helos etc) and had (2 FM connected to allow automatic relay, 1 VHF AM, 1 UHF, and 1 HF for long distance) and ample radio suite. Its predecessor the O-2 Skymaster (seen in the movie about another operational disaster, Bat 21) was primitive but still effective in that role.
They don't care because Dicedot makes money, and it's not as if standards matter any more since it ceased being a tech site.
I can choose to have prescription lenses attached to the viewfinder of my video camera in order to "enhance my vision" which is in effect the same thing as fitting them to a Google Glass unit.
That a theater customer wear a pair of passive spectacles is not an unreasonable expectation.
US corporatocratic government cannot be expected to be fiscally responsible. It's major mission is globalism to which end it engages in (very expensive) perpetual war. The EU have given up militaristic imperialism and saved vast amounts of treasure thereby.
US "leaders" are all utterly corrupt puppets of the rich who differentiate based on social issues come election time.
Americans hate taxes because they increase but we don't benefit from the increase. Since I will not obtain any good from increases I prefer to fight to limit taxes. Either way they'll be misused so "less is better".
The US isn't "doomed" but it can't become a better place so the best one may do is dodge as much government bullshit as practical.
Psycho much?
If your stream of consciousness (I'll use the term loosely) resembles your sentence structure you are in dire need of suicide.
Theaters were cool back decades ago when there was no alternative, but they offer nothing of value now and the entire experience is an expensive, time-consuming hassle.
Elliptic paraboloids for sale.
