Colour laser printers are under $200, and the toner cartridges last a hell of a long time. Why is anyone buying ink-based printers?
Because color laser 'photo quality" prints look like modern inkjet prints set to "fast draft"?
As said before, Wagreens/Walmart are really the best option for really nice photo prints... but at home, a good quality in jet on glossy "photo paper" has a great deal of wife approval factor.
You try shooting accurately from a platform that's bobbing.
OTOH, consider chasing a ship in a rubber raft with a couple guys with 50 cals shooting at you...
I'd consider looking for another target immediately.
"I want to understand how they justify their employment. "
Perhaps because they missed the memo where they were supposed to give a tinkers damn what you think?
In Texas, folks complain that no one uses their turn signals, or only flashes once while changing.
Unfortunately, you cannot claim self defense, even though it can be.
As an addition:
For every complex problem there is an answer that is clear, simple, and wrong.
H. L. Mencken
Is it just me, or is the first onslaught of posts unusually full of people who seem to want to judge government first and read/think later? I mean, beyond the usual level here.
I mean, something has to be done. We are well over 50% of the internet's capacity being used to send people junk mail, most of it both offensive and fraudulent, far too much of it containing executable payloads that harm the internet itself, etc.
If the ISPs don't take voluntary action at a level of minimum intrusion, some excited parents' group is going to hold a referendum and hand their government the right to intrude in every living room.
Sure, this proposal goes too far in places, misses the boat technically in others. It's not perfect. But it's better than legalizing deep inspection to be adminitered and performed by the agency of the UN/international courts.
If we want better than this, we need to come up with counter-proposals of our own, get out, educate people. (And get ourselves off the OS that is the primary medium of abuse.)
Is it just me, or is the first onslaught of posts unusually full of people who seem to want to judge government first and read/think later? I mean, beyond the usual level here.
I mean, something has to be done. We are well over 50% of the internet's capacity being used to send people junk mail, most of it both offensive and fraudulent, far too much of it containing executable payloads that harm the internet itself, etc.
If the ISPs don't take voluntary action at a level of minimum intrusion, some excited parents' group is going to hold a referendum and hand their government the right to intrude in every living room.
Sure, this proposal goes too far in places, misses the boat technically in others. It's not perfect. But it's better than legalizing deep inspection to be adminitered and performed by the agency of the UN/international courts.
If we want better than this, we need to come up with counter-proposals of our own, get out, educate people. (And get ourselves off the OS that is the primary medium of abuse.)
I think ~everyone has thought of doing something like this at least for a moment.
It makes perfect sense until you actually... think it through.
The problem most folks have with this has two parts:
As an unusually insightful AC above noted, the ability to tell a machine is really a zombie ~requires deep packet monitoring/logging.
This is where
A) We don't want them to go, as it's none of their business, and..
B) The ISPs don't want to go, as it's not their problem, and they get to pay for the privilege.
Add the legal ability for the Government to "kill" the net with deep packet monitoring/logging and you have Big Brother.
(Assuming it isn't here already, I suspect the dogs are loose already)
OTOH the next step is only allowing machines on the `net running the approved AV suite on Windows like some universities etc.
Climate scientists suggest that aerosols are hurting the ozone layer, and point to an actual growing hole in the ozone layer. We reduce aerosols, the hole in the ozone layer shrinks.
IIRC a few Australian scientists reanalyzed the "ozone hole" data awhile back, and it correlated ~100% to the output of the VOLCANO near the south pole, and did not correlate to man-made "ozone depleting" gas output well at all, indicating that industry wasted billions of dollars converting to fix a problem that didn't really exist, and converted to replacement gasses that are actually excellent greenhouse gasses in the process.
Or was this made up too?
I thought they figured out a few years ago the ozone "hole" in Antarcticas size correlated ~100% to the emissions of the volcano down there, and quite poorly with human generated CFCs emission volumes.
Perhaps too inconveinient a truth to be widely discussed...
Perhaps someday the Montreal protocol will be viewed as the tipping point that caused global warming, as the replacements for CFCs are generally hugely efficient greenhouse gasses.
Yes, slashdot has apparently DOS'd a guvmint lab.
Expect the black DHS helicopters to arrive in 3,2,1...
...Or for a tad more energy efficiency vs. using RADAR to heat up the bats skull to produce sound, put some SPEAKERS on the bloody blades.
Or air activated "deer warnings" on the blades, except ones that work for bats.
(Dangerously assuming those worked for Deer, but you get the idea)
Back in the ~70s, in the bidding stage of the shuttle program, General Dynamics had some interesting designs for a reusable--- FLYABLE---landed on its own, was piloted--- liquid fueled boost stage for a shuttle... and that proposed version of the shuttle was made of titanium mostly and had about 2X the payload, and far more range, and probably would have cost 1/4 of the final "cheaper" congressional mandated aluminum design.
Perhaps we should dust off some of the designs that lost the shuttle design-off due to congressional interference.
The shuttles concept didn't suck.
The final design did.
(My dad worked for GD back in the day, including at the cape)
Successful and fortunate crime is called virtue. - Seneca
