roughcoat

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by roughcoat 9y ago
I doubt encryption does anything all by itself. And apparently, encryption-using terrorists--who would be violating the law if such laws were in place--do kill children. Manchester, you know, it just happened. Nice. Berlin. Stockholm. Prett
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by roughcoat 9y ago
I've used a handgun to signal for help, to find lost people in the woods in Alaska, to hunt, to scare away bears, and for fun. And on a few occasions, I've been very glad to have a handgun with me stateside, because I came quite c
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by roughcoat 9y ago
Uh huh. Have you studied the genocides of the 20th century? How does a disarmed and helpless populace look in those circumstances? And since you think the government should be trusted to mete out all force, I'm certain you'll have
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by roughcoat 9y ago
If your idea of reasoned discussion is responding to my comments with logical fallacies, there's no point in wasting any more time on you. Good day.
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by roughcoat 9y ago
Further to this, the reality is politicians who want to undermine information security don't give a damn about protecting their citizens/subjects. That's just the excuse to make the poison pill more palatable. What this is ab
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by roughcoat 9y ago
What nonsense. It's obvious what the parent comment meant. Law abiding gun owners by definition do not kill innocent children, just like law abiding people do not use encryption nefariously. Encryption and guns are both tools, with not
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by roughcoat 9y ago
Wait, you're calling his argument bullshit? You didn't even make an argument, you just said something completely nonsensical.
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by roughcoat 9y ago
I'm not speaking hypothetically. I have loaned many tools, and many other possessions, to people in the past. Other people rarely treat my possessions with care, and sometimes they can't be bothered to return them unless I badger
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by roughcoat 9y ago
I don't see how having a long commute somehow diminishes the benefits of having a personal vehicle. For most people, having a personal vehicle means, partly, being able to live where they want instead of having to choose a home based
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by roughcoat 9y ago
Why do you assume people embrace "personal car culture" just because there's a lack of public transportation? People like having their own vehicles. It's freedom and independence. Even if I lived right on a bus line, and
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by roughcoat 9y ago
There's a difference between belonging to a sort of tool club, and paying with both time and money to keep things going well, and loaning out my personal possessions. I've been thinking about joining a local makerspace specificall
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by roughcoat 9y ago
Make a facebook group for your neighborhood if you want, I suppose. There's no way I'm loaning out my tools, equipment, or anything else I own except to people I trust very highly. I like my possessions to A) be readily availabl
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by roughcoat 9y ago
'But there are attitudes in mental software that must be modified. "I'm in a hurry and I have to get there RIGHT NOW." "Everyone is in MY way." Individualism can be an inefficiency of the collective, and that w
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by roughcoat 9y ago
I don't think anyone really knows. The vehicles haven't been around long enough to understand what long term maintenance looks like regarding any aspect of the vehicle. People throw numbers around regarding cost for things like re
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by roughcoat 9y ago
You are aware, I hope, that extinction wasn't invented by humanity?
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by roughcoat 9y ago
Being poor is expensive, indeed. Most people don't realize that until they experience it. If they ever do. If you never have much surplus money, you can rarely if ever do the things that save money in the long term. You can't inve
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by roughcoat 9y ago
We should do nothing, because while interesting, this is a nonevent. Parts of that article are wildly exaggerated or outright incorrect, trying to make this sound like some big deal. It's really not. Sometimes in nature, things happen
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by roughcoat 9y ago
Not all of that core is replaceable, because the locations the cores came from have since melted.
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by roughcoat 9y ago
Depends on what I'm doing. If I'm grinding through stuff I know exactly how to do, but can't automate away, I find having something like people talking or an audiobook I know well running in the background actually helps me f
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by roughcoat 9y ago
Some kind of screen sharing app with Krita = virtual whiteboard. You have a lot more room than a real whiteboard offers, since Krita has a "pseudo-infinite" canvas, so you don't need to erase things. And you can save the file