Comment Re:Just what they want Linux to become ? (Score 1) 1134
Now we have a black screen of death.
Now we have a black screen of death.
Actually, I suspect the LiveCD is likely what this is meant to shut down. The little progress that other desktop OSes have made in the IBM PC compatible market in the past few years has been due to Joe Blows tossing a live CD in. Heck, I give them to friends and family for when their Windows installation gets trashed by the latest and greatest Rapeware. There's no way I am being a writer and phone support for my own version of The Idiot's Guide to Playing with FireX4aBIOS Settings.
That, and I can imagine DRM refusing to authenticate on a system with the secure boot setting disabled. We are the enemy, after all.
How about: the amount one party spends in legal fees must be matched at some ratio and paid to the other party, regardless of guilt, to be itemized and balanced by the end of every month.
For a 1:1 example:
Joe Blow, owner of Joe's Cups of Joe of Skid Row, OK gets sued by Joe Mamma, Inc., where Joe Mamma dumps $200K every month into lawyer fees, legal research, expert witnesses, court filings, etc... and Joe only spends $5K to retain Jimmy Shyster of Shyster, Benedict, and Arnold. Joe Blow would end up having to match 5K to Joe Mamma, Inc and Joe Mamma, Inc. would have to reimburse Joe Blow for $200K.
That fraking lawsuit had better be worth it to Joe Mamma, Inc.
Stopping the inevitable Hollywood accounting would be a major issue, of course. Would anyone like to pull that idea apart any further?
Spend about $36.00 in 5 minutes to drive for another 350 miles or about $3.00 in 20 to drive about another 64 miles (assuming comparable subcompacts, highway miles). Keep in mind, you will spend that 5 minutes fueling at a gas station, where you can charge at home and possibly at work, play, and shopping. So, if your idle time is really valuable, or you just go on long trips frequently, you may want to keep a gas car around.
I putter along at about 25 miles per day, with the odd 200 mile trip every few months where I don't mind stopping a couple of times to stretch, take a leak, grab some grub, etc... So, about every quarter, I would drive about 2350 miles. I would spend about 40 minutes during that time fueling my gas car (33 mpg combined, 9 gallons per stop), and 1 hour 20 minutes (4 80% recharges) screwing around at charging stations (20 minutes for 19.2kWh, 80% of a 24kWh pack, 64 miles per). I will have spent about $285 in Gas or about $12 at the charging stations, plus about $94 in household electricity (assuming no "free" charging).
That is about $269 per hour of waiting. Although, this does not include offsets such as the huge upfront cost of the pack (usually a $12k to $14k premium), nor the large difference in maintenance costs. It also does not include the few seconds to plug in the car at home, now that I think about it.
Look at the bright side: The current laws read a lot like such classics as 1984 and Animal Farm. So, there is a workaround.
It is not that people lack this instinct. It is just that the instinct to submit to pack leaders tends to override this and other such gut responses. For instance, the Milgram Experiment covers the aversion to torture and murder being (easily) overridden. Hense, the urge to deride the TSA as rent-a-cops and other such allusions to their inferiority in the pack when justifying not complying.
Then they should have all those missing White House emails.
Seriously, the entire point is so that they can keep prices high, if not higher: They don't like the competition from the used market driving the prices lower. They act like they're doing us all a favor when they want something. When they get it, it's "What? We're not running a charity here! Blah...blah...blah...free market..." Does anyone really think it was a coincidence that prices went up the moment the one-time-download-per-copy DLC that really should have been included already crap hit the scene?
It's like the neighborhood junkie that tells you if you just bail his ass out one more time, he'll clean up. Of course what he really does is take anything you give him and convert it into what he's jonesing for. And, you're just a sucker that got schooled.
"Since all combat seems to be heading this way anyway, one might as well just say: Drones. Due to the light speed delay, they'd have to be much more automated, but again, we're headed that way anyway. Carrying around a person and a life support system is a *huge* mass and complexity penalty."
The disadvantage, though, is you need a C & C relatively nearby that can handle what the automated programming cannot and to issue general orders, probably a carrier if an outpost and refueling dock is unavailable.
Challenge accepted...
#1 I was not aware that only the technically adept were allowed to be whistle-blowers The people that are likely not to know how to get a document out digitally are the ones that will print the thing out..
#2 Lets say you print out your tax forms on a printer registered to you in the Bahamas, but the form only lists your assets as being in Florida. Now you have an audit for using a branch office printer to print off your taxes. And, oh, hey look, the TSA does not have a record of you leaving and re-entering the country around that date! Suspicious...
#3 The raging bitch queen and his/her shyster lawyer discovers that the printer that some of your statements and offers are printed on happens to be at a house occupied by a member of the opposite sex not related to you. Oh, shit!
Stupid people love tyrants: They give stupid people someone else to blame for the results of their stupid decisions.
Because no one in this country gives a fuck about corruption unless cum is involved.
You are forgetting one of the 10 commandments of propaganda: If you repeat it enough times, people will believe it is true.
And, as a bonus, you'll slowly drive anyone that actually has some grasp of the truth slowly bat-shit crazy thanks to the gas lighting effect; which makes them, and therefor their position, unattractive.
People tend to project upon others the same impulses and motivations they themselves hold. So, when they see someone doing something that they themselves would do as a prerequisite for some behavior, they assume that the other person is doing it for that very result. So, it is possible. Maybe he secretly wants to have a big gay family orgy or something.
However, human behavior is not so simple as to assume the above to be true. For instance, people who have suffered trauma often assume that a prerequisite event associated with prior trauma heralds an imminent re-occurrence. Some people just have a weird way of thinking. Some people just like to screw with other people's hearts and minds. Etc...
In my amateur opinion, I would say it ups the chances off average, though.
Japan will continue to use nuclear plants after 40 years after some political/financial lubrication and rubber stamping a safety report, just like every other first world nation with old plants in the news lately.
War is peace; Freedom is slavery, etc...
Mmm...chocolate rations...
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