Well I would be the first to admit I am old and in my day yeah mortars were about the cheapest artillery you could get. Is that still true ? I know there was work on smart shells and automated mortars awhile back, which begs the question how cheap are they now.
I said this earlier when you hate enough, you can make anything fit into and confirm your hatred. It's a shame slashdot is headed into the fever swamps. I enjoyed the site for many years.
Mortars have horrible accuracy, you would be lucky to get within a hundred yards of a particular target with a conventional mortar. Whats more they are easy to spot for return fire.
Extinguish ? Flash needs to die in a fire.
I was pretty sure that APL had killed compactness as a measure of the power of a programming language once and for all. I guess people are still making this argument.
(~ R R.× R )/ R (left arrow) 1 (down arrow) R
There's the the equivalent code in APL even more dense. (well more or less slashdot doesn't let the characters go through the preview)
There is a similar problem with copyright law in the U.S., where changes to the law in the 1970s and 1990s have made it almost impossible for copyrights to ever expire. The changes favor the corporations rather than the individuals who might actually create the work.
Wow it's amazing how if you hate something enough you can see everything as justifying your hatred.
Having copyright extend ever longer is both stupid and counterproductive, but it's no way comparable to changes that take away a creators right to profit from their creations. Arguably it makes the creations more valuable and makes it easier to invest in creating material for either a corporation or an individual. Contrast that with a law from the article that "If the Japanese government changes the patent law it means basically there would no compensation [for inventors]." Apples to Orangutans here.
With so many very good arguments about why copyright needs to be reformed there's no need to make bad ones.
Hmmm what would you call an organization with a fleet of battleships capable of destroying planets ?
LOL That's why the world is so much worse off today than it was 100 years or 1000 years ago ?
Oops it's not worse off.
Those bills weren't a product of Title II regulation, and you know it.
Forcing the ISPs to lease the lines out to other players, and hence creating actual competition and a plethora of mom and pop ISPs? That WAS a product of Title II regulation.
You sir, are a liar.
Really when did this happen ? ATT was regulated on this basis for 60+ years, and it wasn't till the consent decision and the telecommunications act of 1996 that you had competition in the phone sector. Putting Comcast/ATT/Verizon under Title II isn't going to give anyone access to their lines, it will give them the right to hang lines from the phone poles, for a reasonable rate. That's a far cry from allowing anyone with routers/billing software to buy wholesale and undercut the incumbents.
So while you think me a liar, I have to see you as uninformed
Even the tropics get freezing temps. I'm not a construction guy but those walls looked really rough in their finish. Leads me to think that unless that is rectified they may have moisture/mold problems.
What hath Bob wrought?
