To be honest, i don’t know specifically, but that’s very much in his prairie school of architecture.
If you ever get a chance, try walking around in Oak Park (a nice suburb of Chicago on the far west side); a lot of Wright’s earlier architectural work is there. One of his earliest buildings is there, from before he developed his prairie school, and it’s… A real change of pace.
That is NOT the reason. FFS. If that was the case, you couldn’t switch to B&W only printing when you’re out of one of the cartridges, and, shocker!, you almost always can (assuming that you don’t have the absolutely worst printer driver in existence).
I work in commercial printing, and I print in CMYK every single day. Almost nothing is absolutely pure cyan, magenta, yellow, or black. Printing pure black ends up looking like a very washed out charcoal grey. If you want ‘rich black’–which is what most people think of as black, you need to us C,M, and Y. If you had a spectrophotometer and were creating color profiles for your printer, you’d be able to very, very quickly see that. (You’d also be able to see that the colors used in most inks and toners isn’t strictly linear, and that you can start getting weird ‘hooking’ in colors once you exceed a certain ink volume. Some inks are much worse than others in that respect.) Depending on the RIP software that you’re using, and how you create the color profile for the printer, you can specify exactly where greys switch from being monochromatic (K only) to using the full gamut.
It used to be really apparent with our old Roland printers, where you could easily see the individual pixels with a magnifying glass. Now we’re using printers that are higher resolution–I think 600ppi natively, but I see enough dot gain in what we’re printing on that anything past 150ppi is irrelevant–you can’t see them.
There’s a collection of images that I have to print regularly from one of our corporate clients. This collection of images is always sent as greyscale .tif files. When you look at them on-screen, they look fine. When you print them, they’re washed out. The issue is that the RIP software sees the images in greyscale, and defaults to using K only. If I convert the images to RGB (which, yes, I know, it’s weird that I print in RGB when the printer is CMYK, but trust me, it improves color slightly), then the printed image looks like the image on screen.
God of War.
I dunno, being Nicholas Cage just seems kind of cool.
Well of course they live there; that’s one of Frank Lloyd Wright’s worst designs. They’re not going to live in one of his masterpieces, are they?
Were you around in the heyday of bmezine when Shannon was still alive? And didn’t i hear something a while back about Luna Cobra currently living somewhere in Australia?
I’ve known a few people that have also implanted RFID chips that they can then reprogram transdermally. They can do things like set them to have the same permissions as a security badge, for instance. Cool shit.
That’s not too far off from polling in 2023 by Gallup and Pew Reasearch, both of which are respected public polling groups.
Is it shitty? Yes, it absolutely is.
But as shitty as it is, 40 years ago you would have seen very similar polls about gay people simply existing in public. There was a time in my life when it was hotly debated whether or not it was okay for a male school teacher to be gay at all, even if they were still closeted. Does anyone remember the movie In and Out? That was 1997, and even then it was a Big Fucking Deal. Gay people have only been allowed to get married for, what, a few weeks less than a decade now? You look at polling from 2015, and support for marriage equality was pretty soft. Currently >70% of Americans support marriage equality (…which neatly dovetails with the approximate number of people that identify as evangelical).
All I’m saying is that this shit takes time. Just because the numbers look bad now doesn’t mean it’s always going to be this way.
You will get to a more profound and authentic understanding of yourself and of steps you can take to be the better person you want to become.
Simply understanding does not mean that you automatically change. Perhaps you have an anger problem because your father was a shitty person that lashed out every time something went wrong, and you unintentionally modeled his behavior. Great, now you know why you have explosive anger, but now you’ve also got 30-odd years of shitty habits to unlearn.
Understanding is only the first step, not the end.
The NRA gave up their ‘jack-booted thugs’ rhetoric and started kissing Republican asses when Bush Jr. was president. Bush very publicly renounced his lifetime membership over LaPierre’s–very, very reasonable and measured–stance that the feds were shitty people. The NRA caved rather than continue to speak the obvious truth, and they’ve had a fetish for licking cop boots ever since.
My experience certainly does.
I’ve worked with some really great people. But maybe 1 in 5 or so was a loudmouthed shitbag, and when you called them on being shitty, they either threatened you, or acted like it was all a joke or a big misunderstanding, and you were at fault for being upset, etc. I can’t guarantee that the shitty people I’ve known have harassed women, but the probability seems high.
Good managers are able to allocate resources–particularly human resources–to complete a task. I know that it’s a common trope to think that managers only take value instead of adding it, but it’s simply not true; processes and production are less efficient without effective management.
People working in production shouldn’t have to deal with clients/customers, nor should they be expected to coordinate with vendors, or even all other people involved in production. Production people are hired for their skill/expertise in production, so they should be left to do their job rather than taking on more jobs.
The flip side is that ineffective management can make processes and production less efficient than they would be without any management at all.
Drive to get groceries? You’re dependent on most of those same factors.
I said I wanted enough arable land to grow my own.
Water? Same. Even if you have a well, you still don’t want that well to be polluted by people around you.
See above.
Shelter? You presumably don’t want a neighbor’s rickety structure to fall over on yours during a storm.
See above. I don’t intend to have neighbors within a mile.
Just pointing out that one mile is 5,280 feet, which is about 24,720’ short of 30,000’. The fastest commercially available drones are around 80mph, which makes them about 1140mph slower than an F-35.
Oh, and how are they going to scramble their drone swarm in the first place if they can’t detect the F-35?
Weeelllllll…
We’re violating trade agreements with our tariffs. But giving tax breaks to companies that re-shore industry would also likely violate trade agreements, because it would create ‘unfair competition’. Kinda like the way that China has given subsidies to certain industries–such as solar panel producers–has created unfair competition, since they have far lower costs than other solar panel producers. As such, tax breaks and incentives would probably also hurt our trade relations, because we would essentially be taking jobs out of other countries. …But that would probably hurt out relations with other countries far, far less than what we’re doing now.
Honestly, there’s not a great way to bring manufacturing jobs back in a way that doesn’t harm our relationships with other countries, or our national interests in some way. By purchasing shit from companies with lower labor costs/standards of living/higher levels of labor abuse/etc., we’ve undercut our ability to produce the same goods at a competitive price while also keeping our own standards. Even if we went back to pay ratios between workers and executives that existed 50 years ago (I think that lowest to highest ratio in large companies was about 150:1 in the late 60s), that wouldn’t be enough to keep our living standards, avoid labor abuses, and still be competitive with shit we get from China.
This is compounded by the fact that we do have some of this manufacturing in the US, because it’s more-or-less required by the Barry Amendment (USC 10 §2533(a)). But the costs are astronomical. Take a backpack made by Mystery Ranch. Their Black Jack 80–identical to the USSOCOM SPEAR Patrol bag they make, just with another name–is $1200. The version that’s made in Vietnam and is not Barry-compliant, was about $400. The materials and craftsmanship were substantially identical, but the fabrics were sourced from outside the US, and the manufacturing was done outside the US. There’s no reasonable way that the US gov’t can subsidize those kinds of costs.
So what’s happening here is that the carbonic acid in the carbonated water is curdling the milk. You can get the same effect by adding any acid to milk. If you’re cooking, your recipe calls for buttermilk, and you don’t have any, you can substitute regular milk that you’ve added a tablespoon of vinegar to (stir, wait about five minutes before adding).
Then what you’re asking for is a more fractured human society.
No, I’m saying I want energy independence. I don’t want to be dependent on the vagaries of service providers, or politicians that decide one day that renewables are great, and then the next day fuck it all drill baby drill, or a utility–or government–that refuses to invest the necessary capital into infrastructure to maintain capability. I’ll pay my taxes so that shit can get done IF that ends up being the will of the people, but I don’t see the point of being dependent on a system that I both need and have no control over.
It doesn’t take advantage of economies of scale very well.
You missed my point; I was talking about being entirely off-grid there. So unless the homeowner in question also has a large industrial building with a flat roof, we’re back to where I said that they didn’t have enough generative capacity to not be reliant on a power grid, at least in part.
If what you want is energy independence from your local power utility,
No, I want energy independence period. Not just from the local utility, I want independence from a co-op as well. I want to have my own well so I’m not relying on someone else to deliver water. I want enough arable land to grow most, or all, of my own food. This isn’t compatible with living in a city. (And part of the reason I want to generate my own power is so that I can use all electric vehicles.)
…Shouldn’t that be the other way around…?
Without reading the article, I could already see what the problem was.
Unless you have capital to invest, you can’t expand or improve the power grid. That capital can either come from the gov’t–through taxation–or from private industry. If you, personally, have enough capital to do so, you can build a fully off-grid system, so that you aren’t dependent on anyone else. But then if shit happens, you also can’t get help from anyone else. (Also, most houses in urban areas do not have enough square feet of exposure to the sun to generate all of their own power.)
Fundamentally, this is a problem that can only be solved by regulation, and regulation is being gutted across the board in the US.
Right, but that’s not the reason it won’t print if you’re out of a color. Especially since you can still print in B&W only mode. Or you certainly used to be able to, but I’m still using the same color laser from >10 years ago for home use, and an old Brother photo printer for things that need to be higher resolution.
If you use a Brother printer with ecotank cartridges, you can get an empty yellow cartridge and fill it with water if you’re worried about tracking dots. You’ll want to run a few cleaning cycles first to ensure that all the residual yellow is gone from the yellow print head.
…Or you can buy a typewriter at a pawn shop with cash, and dump it once you’ve written the ransom note/bomb threat. If you’re counterfeiting stuff, you should probably consider the printer to be a consumable item that gets discarded and replaced after every batch.
Also, not every printer made since the mid-90s does that. See here