OTOH aside from existing regulations aimed at the business side, I don't see what is wrong from that persons perspective. In principle I have no issue with a service that allows people to, on a part time basis, give other people rides for a few bucks to make some spare income.

Why does everything need to be professional? I think the problem with amateurs providing services are mostly overblown.

Believe it or not, and I know not everyone complies with this, but I believe external markers are required (here in MA) on ANY vehicle with commercial plates. Note, of course, that no Uber driver is going to have commercial plates, and really shouldn't, generally people don't need commercial plates when they supply their own personal vehicle for the job. (imagine what that would do to pizza delivery)

Here is a nickle, kid, go tell someone who never had to go find another system to run a web browser on because the latest updated broke his XF86Config. (a version of which happened again recently when I wasn't paying attention and I allowed an update to uninstall the ati graphics driver packages....oops, always read those "to be removed" lists)

Every distro out there has managed some type of update breakage at some point, and if you run a full desktop you pretty much can't avoid it.

Though I did switch back to Debian myself because I didn't like the direction they were going with the Desktop and noticed Debian release cycles had shortened significantly since I switched.

My father had a hunting story about a gun like that, tho it was a single shot....

"....again I slowly put a round in the chamber and slowly lifted the gun back up, and for the third time raised the barrel even higher, this time I was just about aiming into the sky, I pulled the trigger.....and finally....grazed the deers belly and he ran off....if that was my gun, I would have wrapped it around a tree"

This, and so much this for just about every gun related cry for regulation.

I keep seeing people talk about high capacity magazines, assault rifles etc etc every time gun violence comes up. Oh we need to ban this, we need to background check that.... never mind that they are whipping themselves up into a froth about the least common categories of gun violence.

  In the end, real crime, even the real heinous shit, tends to be done with either hand guns or hand held melee weapons. Almost nobody uses rifles for crimes, more hammers are used to kill than rifles....all rifles, assault or otherwise....but nearly every gun control nutter I talk seems to think every gun owners secret dream is to carry around an AK-47 all day.

In fact, so far the only real connection between gun laws and crime is, places with crime problems tend to make more gun laws as a result.... which doesn't do shit about their crime problems. The whole issue is only popular because its an easy sound bite "solution", you know, the kind that "always work" like banning drugs.

Hardcore is without mods? Lol! Depends on your mods man.

I was playing since before science mode existed so, by the time career came out, I found I could just monkey stomp the tech tree. I tend to run mods which add new game mechanics that add challenge. For example, Tac Life Support which means kerbals need supply of water, food, and oxygen and electricity.... that is one of the few things that kept me from early moon missions (solar panels are not available right away).

Construction time to add ship build time mechanics, Deadly Reentry for heating effects (might be obsolete now, at least partially), FAR for better aero (I hear its getting even better), RemoteTek to simulate antena range and signal delay, scansat for mapping/scanning features, cacteye for telescopes, realchute for better parachutes, stage recovery, KIDS to make thrust/throttle/ISP/altitude relationships to work more correctly (default KSP makes fuel consumption vary with atmospheric pressure instead of thrust, so throttle input relates to thrust not fuel usage, KIDS has options to fix that) ....then once it is hardcore and good top it all off with Astronomer's visual pack to get clouds, auroras, dust storms, etc to make it real pretty.

Its not missing, its intentionally ignored for the sake of gameplay. Getting normal gamers up to speed on stable orbits with 2 body physics induces enough rage quits. The ability to easily have stable orbits is a bit more important than the neat tricks you can do with a better gravitational model.

I would love to be able to pull off tricky low energy tranfers and use multi-body gravitation to send ships on slow tours of the solar system for very little fuel costs, or put a satelite in a halo orbit.... fun stuff but.... nothing that I would want to trade stable orbits for.... the simplified physics makes it easier to get to a point where you understand it.

I really think paid mods are dumb, they will do little good other than encourage new modders, but, it will do it by giving them false hopes and setting them up for an antagonistic atmosphere. Look at Kerbal modders now for an example. They work together. There are few "competing" mods, most work with eachother, and when you see two modders working on similar or related mods meet in the forums it is always a "Oh you are the guy who does X? Awesome how did you do Y?" and they have a great conversation and work together a bit.

Enter paid mods, and they would have incentive to...not do that. You would have modders who just copy others and release trying to make a buck, you would have people trying to obscure code, and hide their "secret sauce".... all.... for a pittance that will never sustain them.

I run 30 kerbal mods now (and a similar number of skyrim ones). If mods started going paid, theres maybe 2 or 3 on each I would even consider continuing to use if they were even a $1 or 2....in fact, it would massively increase my resistance to even wanting to try a mod.

So the main thing it will do is mean a lot less mods get used.

Whats the difference? I let steam update it, and then copy it off to another directory for mod installs so I can keep a pristine copy around. Sometimes I make two copies so I can run different mod sets.

I see no issue here, plus I have steam already so why go anywhere else if I already use it? Don't really need an installer.

Its the term the people who did this would use if it happened to them.... funny calling it a campaign when, by their own definitions, it was an attack. Shit, if they did similar, it might even be trumped up as an act of war.

He did send a serious message.... misappropriation and corruption at the highest levels will most certainly be tolerated.

That sounds exactly like what I would expect from this government, without regard to who is in office. Oh you did something stupid for personal gain? No harm no foul.....but if you are an idealist, that scares them.

The last thing they want is to be held accountable, and this is a clear indication of that.

You know its always a little of collumn A and a little of collumn B with such things. I am certain some people think they are using them medicinally, and there are always going to be a few people out there claiming the treatment they offer is medicinal and "removes toxins" (I still find it odd there are people who don't realize the word "toxin" is a red flag in most contexts)

OTOH I know people who have played with this from more the BDSM side, they definitely exist but, don't tend to feel much need to pretend its medical...tho maybe some use that excuse around people who they feel would react better to thinking they are stupid than know what they do in their bedroom. Again....a little A, a little B.....

See, and that is the problem right there. Its so easy to see the problems, and you are right. The prison and military industrial complexes, as well as several others, are a huge problem but.... and this is a Ron Jeremy hairy ass but.... there is no way anything remotely as simple as "Term Limits" is going to fix shit.

You think the big industries can't find bodies to fill seats on a more regular basis?

The bigger problem, really, is fundamentally flawed structure that isn't scaling well, especially since entire industries have grown up around exploiting its weaknesses for profit in one way or another. It is a a deep house made of many many cards.

Take the disasterous war on drugs and particularly pot. When it was made illegal, it wasn't actually even considered a serious drug of abuse. Hell, I have read the congressional records on the first marijuana law which included this exchange "Mr Speaker, what is marijuana?" "I don't know, some narcotic".

Some of the most vocal proponents of the law were people who worked for the FBN, the precursor of the DEA... the people who had just seen prohibition die and were scared for their jobs. It was essentially a coalition of federal workers worried about their jobs and a few industrialists who stood to profit. The AMA even sent a doctor to the Senate hearings to advise against passing the bill!

Now, some 80 years later, how many people have been arrested? How many shot? How many houses and cars repossessed? There are more marijuana smokers than the next 3 major illicit drugs...combined. How many police officers, how many probation officers, how many prison gaurds, drug testing lab technitions.....all have jobs because we arrest and charge adults for smoking a plant.

Its disgusting but, as high as the ideals of this system are, it is incapable of dealing with them. Its incapable of stopping the spending of billions upon billions on military projects we don't need for adversaries we don't have.....because these are diseases eat at the very fabric of the system.

Shit, the DEA openly claims "Parallel Construction" is a legal tactic for "protecting sources" when the reality is, the source they are protecting is the mass surveillance that the people likely wouldn't approve of if they knew...and it works because the system has exhausted its defenses against uncontrolled growth. The loopholes are found....

If a the Police can guide a constructed evidence trail to the courts, then, there is no such thing as a poisonous tree anymore. Their entire answer to mass surveillance is now "anything we don't tell you about is ok".

This system is nearly entirely ownend by tumors of its own creation. Its not any one of these, its all of these. Its the Prison system often enlarged to create jobs and win votes or for private profit, which results in gaurds unions who then lobby for strict laws.... its the military contractors who farm out work to multiple districts to make every project political suicide to kill.... its just so many special interests with so many perverse alignments that its like the patient has lived so long he is more tumor than man.

First, I didn't make the original comment, so much for your assumptions.

Secondly, I am well aware of that, and your comment is a perfect example of exactly what I am talking about. The original poster used the appropriate phrase in spoken conversation, an idiomatic expression which is well understood and even common. He clearly understood what he was talking about.

Now you, without even bothering to see who said what, actually claim that spelling has shit to do with understanding?

I read the original comment, it was pretty fucking clear to me.

However, and really this is the point. Noticing a grammatical or spelling error is nothing worth being a jackass about, and it certainly gives you nothing to be condescending about. You just performed a task at the level of a word processor....good job, you want a fucking gold star for being the smart kid?

You want to disagree or poke fun at someone's thoughts, hey, I have no quarrel with you, hell, troll em good. However, if all you have is picking on someone for a poor turn of phrase, I just want you to know, you aren't bringing much to the table to be smug about. You just performed a task at the level of a cheap word processor. Good job, you mad nobody gives you gold stars for spelling anymore?