Comment Re:What the fuck? (Score 1) 117
Oops, sorry, I just got a dc-dc converter in the mail to run my AMD geode SBC off a marine battery.
You probably should be sorry. The fastest Geodes are antiques (I have two of them right here, whee.)
Oops, sorry, I just got a dc-dc converter in the mail to run my AMD geode SBC off a marine battery.
You probably should be sorry. The fastest Geodes are antiques (I have two of them right here, whee.)
I drove from Baltimore to DC and back with a rear tire flat the whole time (a Goodyear Assurance TripleTred, something actually useful), and then put air in it when I noticed it was flat.
How do you know how long it was "flat" before you noticed it?
I am beginning to think that we are being subjected to total propaganda.
You're a bit late on that one. Pretty much everything is propaganda, and what's more, virtually all of it is fear-based; the remainder focuses on allaying fears, often reasonable ones. My favorite example is automotive advertising. As much as half of it is designed not directly to sell cars, but to make customers feel better about their purchases to try to induce repeat business "down the road", pun intended.
At a more drastic scale we see California in urgent emergency over lack of water and forest fires. Yet you will not see news reports on what can actually be done to stop the growing emergency.
If it bleeds, it leads. Hope is not interesting to people who have more than they need.
But when they're owned by 5 media companies, all of which are in turn owned by rich media barons, they tend to walk the party line.
We got there because of decades of people systematically giving their money to the most sensational press, which enabled them to become more powerful. It's not something that just happened.
I think that there probably oughta be a law that you can't knowingly tell an outright lie and call it news, but even that seems to be a minority view, which is just another symptom of the same damned need for entertainment.
It's all well and good so long as the USA don't mind, say, a Russian court issuing a warrant for data held on servers in the USA.
There's nothing wrong with that, so long as they don't propose to use force to retrieve the data.
Journalists like Conor Friedersdorf have suggested that one explanation for this is that the public is "informed by a press
Balderdash. There is not a press. What is this, communism, comrade? We have many presses. The problem is that the public follows the sensational ones instead of the informative. We The People have the government, and thus the press, which we deserve.
You didnt just say China had these elements you, very stupidly, supported the claim that China's economy is based on slave labour.
But it in fact is; it's not all obvious. Being forced to work is slavery even if you get paid, because you're not choosing the terms of your employment. It's like being raped and then having your rapist throw you a few currency units.
Which is to say, if you find a USB drive in your company's parking lot, toss it in the trash if you can't find the original owner.
Or I can connect it to a Linux VM and see what that has to say about it...
The way I see it, if they don't go for prosecution, they've more or less given these agencies carte blanche to violate the law, lie about it, and have no consequences.
Welcome to the American legal system, where selective prosecution is standard operating procedure. The only reason to have a legal system which does not require prosecution for known crimes is to permit treating some people differently than others. It leads to the proliferation of bad laws.
That 10% more would probably just go into the pockets of their rich. It's not like they don't have them there, too. They infest everything.
You do realise the US does exactly this as well, and the prisons are corporations, and America even has more prisoners.
And? I didn't say the US didn't have any of these elements. I said that China did.
Posting ac as I spent all my mod points before reading this complete rubbish.
I note you didn't actually disagree with me. Obviously it isn't complete rubbish.
So, non-free dependencies? Not on my watch!
The specifications for the required ammunition are well-known. The stuff is harder to make than the firearm, however. For that to differ you'll have to use something substantially higher- or lower-tech, e.g. caseless or black powder. And caseless ammo is only easier to produce if you disregard the difficulty of producing a practical propellant.
Slave labor? 'Fraid not.
The Chinese government itself literally operates labor camps where criminals are forced to produce consumer goods.
Your argument would be more credible
You clearly do not decide who is credible when you say that slave labor is not slave labor.
RMS doesn't do guns because only one or two are open-source, and he's seen the code and knows they're shitty.
The 1911 is Open Source today, you can literally download blueprints for every part of the weapon. It's one of the best-loved and best-performing firearms of all time. It does require the use of appropriate ammunition, but the openness of the design has permitted developers to adapt it to several different types.
Hard to take him seriously
A more accurate headline might be Jesse Jackson: Please, Pay Attention to Me!
Today is a good day for information-gathering. Read someone else's mail file.