tech exodus?

All elected government taxes, and spends. That's the modern way government operates. Commanding folk in labor gangs instead of hiring them at a negotiated wage is NOT acceptable, that's why Rome fell to Atilla et al.

On a sunny day (Fri, 1 Jan 2021 22:48:11 -0500) it happened bitrex wrote in :

I presume you are, just like me, for the right to carry nuclear arms for kids 10 years and older?

The right to negotiate 'to attend school at a reasonable pay??' ;-)

A worse problem is that all the smart kids from the burbs and farms get hired by google and such and get way over-paid and pack into San Francisco to live and party. Rent a small flat for $6K a month. That brain-drains the small states and wrecks SF.

My new next-door neighbors bought their house (identical to ours, 24 feet wide) on sight for $2.5M, all refurbed and staged for sale, and are already hiring contractors to re-do things. Both are software engineers, immigrants from eastern Europe. Nice people, but too many nice people gets un-nice.

ust like California. It takes more than just California to screw up the nat ion.

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Roman government was always problematic. The way the forced labour was used would have had a lot more to do with reason Rome fell than the fact that i t was forced labour. Quite a few of the later Roman emperors make Trump loo k sane and well organised, and their administrations were remarkably corrup t. Quite often there was a bunch of would-be emperors busy trying to usurp .

gives a long list. Atilla was - in that context - just one more usurper.

Where does it say explicitly "Whoever without lawful authority develops, possesses, or attempts or conspires to develop or possess a radiological weapon, or threatens to use or uses a radiological weapon against any person within the United States, or a national of the United States while such national is outside of the United States or against any property that is owned, leased, funded, or used by the United States, whether that property is within or outside of the United States, shall be imprisoned for any term of years or for life."

And similar for any weapon of mass destruction generally speaking.

Doesn't say you're outlawed or don't have a right to have one exactly you just need "lawful authority." How you'd go about getting that as a private citizen in the case of a nuclear weapon would be a question but you're supposed to apply for and be granted "lawful authority" just about everywhere in the US, AFAIK, to own or carry a firearm around on your person, also

And it makes sense, people and corpos just had to break this mental limit of disliking massively remote work. I believe it is here to stay. As a bonus, you gain a huge decentralisation as well, which reduces your exposure to catastrophic events such as an earthquake or Chelyabinsk-style meteorite.

Best regards, Piotr

The decentralised packet switching network on which all this remote working depends was invented as example of "a system that could sustain operation during partial destruction".

It does seem to have other advantages, bu that does seem to have been the original motivation - everything else is the bonus.

Remote work is OK as long participants of a group are in the same or nearby time zones. Scheduling a meeting is hard, if there are participants in East-Asia, Europe and the US :-).

International collaborations have been doing if for years. You do have to pay attention, but it is practicable.

Simple fix: eliminate meetings.

Yes. The original reason to develop distributed communications (no central node) was indeed to build the communications system for command and control of US nuclear forces flying into the maelstrom at the end of history.

The founding papers are from RAND: "On Distributed Communications", Paul Baran, RAND RM-3420-PR, August 1964, 51 pages.

Robustness and simplicity were definite requirements.

My original copy is on microfilm. Don't recall when I received it.

These reports led to the initial DoD funding to supposrt the development of the ARPAnet.

Joe Gwinn

This looks like a nice lil multi-use structure one could set up a live-in office/electronics workspace at. Almost-waterfront property. Priced to move!

It's even got a white-board pre-installed. Sweet.

A high-speed rail network helps; I can pay Rhode Island rents and taxes and if I need to meet with a client in fancy-pants Boston at 150 mph I can be there in 22 minutes flat.

That looks very nice. $282 per square foot. There's not much around here below $1000.

Google busses ship the kids up and down the peninsula, or did before the lockdowns. Prices slope up near the bus stops.

In EU a citizen is not allowed to posses, sell or buy HNO3 in concentrations above 3%. It has been delegated to he member states to define the penalty. In Poland it is 2 years imprisonment both for the seller and for the buyer. Interestingly, you can legally buy 98% H2SO4, KNO3 and a condenser... One more law by idiots for idiots.

Best regards, Piotr

Using google I found a source in .de on the first page.

When we were kids, we could get it just so at the local pharmacy. We also got glycerin from a different pharmacy. We were not THAT dumb. But we were dumb enough to try the interesting thing. Luckily, it all burnt down

We stopped that s*it when one of us got burning sulfur into an eye. He was expected to go blind on one side, but he got away. It would have inhibited him to continue to fly a glider (allowed here from 16Y under surveillance) and becoming a pilot.

When we would do that today, we would have state police on the farm in no time.

I also used to have "interesting" ground fireworks for new year. I wonder that my mom allowed me to present these. My daughter has no such interest. Big relief.

Cheers, Gerhard

Not one that actually works. Of course if you see meetings as occasions to exhibit your own brilliance, and don't get feedback from the other participants, they are a luxury, rather than a necessity.

How does anyone do anything requiring concentrated HNO3, then? I'm sure it has valid industrial uses. Is the government the sole supplier?

In Poland it is 2 years imprisonment both for the

US law tends to be somewhat ambiguous on many topics. I think this is part of why there are so many lawyers here.

I also think the powers-that-be actually prefer it for citizens who are so inclined to go around asking "this guy I know who knows a guy", who is definitely not a FEDERAL AGENT, for hard-to-obtain items like hi-test nitric acid, TNT, anthrax, and nuclear bombs, with the impression that it never hurts to ask somebody. who will then have many questions. There's very little you can't get and legally possess if you know the right people and have the right amount of cash. And if you're talking to the wrong people, well...

Gotta admit there are a lot of idiots out there.