It was legal not so many years ago for the driver to drink in the state of Texas. Last I checked, the passenger could still have an open container, but that may have been updated since.

I am certain that I am fat enough to count for Two people on my own. Therefore a more accurate number is 225% I did have a big dinner tonight to account for the extra.

Did people who moan about Intellivision online actually play Intellivision? I get the idea it's something they read somewhere and then repeat endlessly. The controllers worked well with most of Intellivision's game library. The alternative was a joystick with a single button, which was fine for arcade games but sucked for anything with weight.

How do you think the invention of all that stuff was made possible? We could have made washing machines just out of wood.

The objection is not that it is impractical; if there are few phone booths then the project is eminently practical. The objection is that it is pointless. I do not have enough information to know if this is a valid objection either.

No. It is enabled by social progess.

Theoretically, sure. In practice, it does none of those things. Let's go from the bottom. Curbing pollution is achieved not solely through technical progress, but also through social progress. In general we have technologies to avoid pollution long before they are used, and only when people wake the fuck up and demand them are they in fact implemented. For example, particulate and carbon filters to trap small particulates and volatile organic compounds. We knew about them long before we started using them. We used them only because people were protesting their bleeding lungs. Curing disease? Economic progress makes the technical progress possible, but we withold cures that we've developed from people without the means to pay an arbitrary asking price designed to serve shareholders and we only make them broadly available when society demands it. Education is in sad shape here in the USA specifically because economic progress isn't serving the people.

Economic progress is not social progress. Economic progress must serve social progress, or it retards it.

Kind of makes you wonder if the breakdown products from this stuff can get into your body separately, and then combine there. Well, it makes me wonder. Maybe that's because I'm not a biologist, or maybe it's because I'm a pessimist.

I don't claim that they can catch it all, but clearly they could catch a lot of it. A lot of it is very clearly marked, they're not even removing that. (The issue of whether they should have to is orthogonal to the technical conversation.)

Arnie for gov was the most awesome thing ever because none of the really fucked up stuff he wanted to do ever came to pass. I knew that this was what would happen, which is why I voted for him. I voted against Moonbeam but we got him again anyway because as you say, the voters of California are idiots. That's not entirely true, though; many of them are simply assholes. There's a lot of self-entitled rich fucks in California, it's not just self-entitled poor.

Why? Why the fuck would you have done that? She's been an unabashed opponent of the constitution all along. Now you want a medal for waking up to what the rest of us have been saying about her for fucking decades?

Step 1: The word is tenets. Do not use words you don't understand. It only makes you look like a stupid ass.

Step 2: Sorry, nothing Feinstein is doing is illegal, and Feinstein is known for trying to do end runs around the constitution, and the people who vote for her vote for her on that basis.

Yes, and the average citizen commits a felony every day, and the police use selective enforcement to control the populace in a way that benefits the oligarchs, because this is a police state.

So all the numbers stations out there on shortwave are all useless? That is a perfect example of Encryption without authentication.

Oh and the WPA2 password was typically "Comcastic"

Getting around Comcast firewalls and other things in the corporate lan is easy. Just find out what hidden AP the IT department has their cable modem on. EVERY SINGLE OFFICE IT had their own cablemodem and typically put a hidden SSID AP on it so they can get around corporate as well. We went farther and had a separate switch and some lan drops on that cablemodem only network. Typically in the Conference rooms and a couple of the common spaces.