all you have to do is read the propaganda at the time and watch the videos of the day to see that it was in fact racist at the time watch reefer madness if you dont believe me
the propaganda is just how it was sold to the public, it does nothing to explain the motivation for it to be pushed in the first place
Whereas in the 19th century China had drug laws to protect.... the Chinese.
I'm confused now...
Yes and the drug war in China was because British East India Company pretty much wanted make the Chinese dependent drug slaves and the Chinese government didn't want that.
and the next time I brew beer I have to worry about creating a drink full of dope
You mean you accidentally brew super beer
Energy weapon that travels at the speed of light?
requires line of sight and fails in heavy rain snow and thick fog, sandstorms.
A railgun projectile that travels slow enough that the target can evade before the projectile reaches it? Meh.
only consider slow when your comparing it to speed of light, when conventional weapon (missiles rockets bullets) it fucking super fast,
and things you are likely to target with a rail gun like many like fortification, buildings bases, cities don't move at all or don't move fast enough like aircraft carriers battle ships.
they are both good weapons for different things. You use your laser to stop missiles and planes and use your rail-gun to turn the air field and missile silo into a smoking crater.
YaCy looks interesting. But after reading about it, I thought of something: Sleazy site owners could spam YaCy by inserting pages under a particular word that do not actually contain that word. To counter this, YaCy's anti-spam measure downloads all pages that appear on each search results page. But this is slow and costs a lot of bandwidth, especially over a metered last mile such as satellite or cellular, and it discloses to the web site operator that one of its pages has appeared in someone's YaCy results.
you could probably institute a reputation system so spammy results also result in a lower ranking
Before online advertising, were there effective web search engines? I seem to remember search engines having ads all the way back to WebCrawler.
I wonder if we could just replace modern search engines that need to be monetized with a free distributed peer to peer system like YaCy.
I'm of the opinion that advertising is immoral.
Do you like the existence of Google? Should the Internet be purely pay-to-play like in the old AOL or GEnie days? For that instance, should Slashdot exist
Yes, by the end of your advert I might "want" your product that I'd never heard of, but as the OP says, "fuck you". You are taking money out of my pocket that I did not plan to allow its removal. In some circles, that's theft.
You know what ACTUAL theft is? Consuming someone's product (ie. visiting an ad-supported web site) and then refusing to pay (ie. allow the ads to be shown). If you want a moral and ethical ad-blocker, implement a plug-in that refuses to let you visit any site whose ads you don't want displayed, or which allows you to pay micro-payments per visit.
That might be the case but when any of those ad could be carrying a malicious payload and attack my system there is no way in hell I am going to allow any arbitrary code from a third party to execute on my system.
I trust Slashdot not to attack me. Slashdot is paid by "acme ad company" to insert their ads. Acme will pipe through whatever code crackers and malicious operators gives them as long as they get their money. I don't trust acme because of this and I certainly don't trust the person placing the ad. But here is the problem acme doesn't care as, I am a product not a customer. They only have to appease Slashdot and who ever is placing the ad. In fact their is a disincentive to scrutinize the content on the ads they are selling as they get paid either no matter the content and passing up bad operators is lost money. They can get away with it because if Slashdot viewer complain then they can say they will look into it opps one got through our system and nothing happens. So the only way to be safe is to block ads.
If Caveat lector (reader beware) is the way the internet is to be then get used to me being aware and responding appropriately.
It has NOTHING to do with convenience, and everything to do with another C-word: Consumables. (Or if you prefer, brand lock-in.) Devices like the Keurig are aimed at the same idiots that buy things like Swiffers instead of a regular duster / mop that does the job just as well for infinitely less money in the long term.
Frankly, I wouldn't care myself, and would consider it no more than a tax on the mortally stupid -- except that it affects me and everybody else on this planet because of all the waste from these consumables that goes straight into landfills, plus all of the energy wasted making them in the first place.
We need to start educating consumers as to why products like these are a bad, bad thing, and boycotting companies who make proprietary consumables when a reusable alternative would suffice.
People don't seek out vendor lock in. (The same people that bought a k-cup coffee maker would buy it even if the cups were an open standard implementable by any one)
They look at perceived value in this case convenience it being consumable not the goal it is part of the mearly due to the chosen method of achieving it. Convenience is that lack of mess and lack of i.e all contained inside a no mess plastic cup. The vendor lock in is simply the company trying to corner the market not what people are looking for.
not a valid excuse
I don't think it is either but that’s why they do it.
You mean, start over and rewrite everything they've done so far in ARM assembler?
I wonder if you could do something like have LLVM Clang compile it to byte-code and compile the byte-code to ARM binaries?...
Regular coffee pot + 1 coffee bean grinder + 1 lb bag of beans = 1 possibly recyclable / compostable bag plus a hundred + cups of coffee.
Keurig setup + 1 kcup insert = 1 cup of crappy coffee plus an unnecessary environmental impact in the form of an non-reusable cup.
Why in this day and age are we engineering waste INTO products when we should be engineering waste OUT of the product? It doesn't make sense.
convenience.
Is the George Foreman Grill a fad? I mean everyone and their sister has or had one at some point. It did great and still makes money but how much is it used?
We use ours at least once, sometimes twice a week..Especially now that we got one with removable, dishwasher-safe plates.
I find they work pretty well for grilling burritos mine gets used several times a week as well.
How can you call yourself a nerd and not worship Athena, goddess of knowledge? Brilliant, well educated, and with the body of a greek goddess.
Because Eris Discordia's spontaneity is more fun?
You are trading your future freedom for a few movies. Worse, you could get those movies in other ways, so you're really trading your future freedom for slightly more convenient access to movies.
What legal way is there of getting DRM free movies is there?
DVD easily broken DRM but still illegal to crack.
Bluray slightly more annoying but breakable DRM again illegal to crack.
Hulu, Amazon Prime, iTunes, Vudu, all have DRM that is illegal to crack.
Cable, and Dish, have DRM yet again illegal to crack.
Torrents copyright infringement, illegal.
Rouge streaming sites legal grey area probably illegal and occasionally has DRM and often filed with malware attack ads.
What ligament legal way is there of getting DRM free movies and shows.
You don't need to go as far as Iceweasel.
Yes, you do, to show that you don't want that capability in your web browser. I get that everybody thinks Netflix are the good guys because they free people from the evil cable companies, but they aren't. They are just the next iteration of media companies who try to shove proprietary shit down your throat. Don't let them.
I look at it as a reasonable compromise, I get the content i want on my otherwise open source stack (firefox mate gnu linux) they get their ineffectual blob to protect their 'precious' content that I can containerize. While I don't like their blob I put up with it because I want to watch their content more.
One way to make your old car run better is to look up the price of a new model.
