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Re: How Steve Perlman's "Revolutionary" Wireless Technology Works - and Why its a Bigger Deal than Anyone Realizes

ripryness — Tue, 04 Mar 2014 18:39:36 -0000

I think it is more likely the the "secret" applications revolve around the systems ability to track your antenna within one centimeter. One I thought of was perhaps much of the processing power required by self driving cars could be outsourced to the cloud.

Re: Auto Save Web Forms with Knockout

ripryness — Sun, 13 Jan 2013 14:08:38 -0000

First let me say that no where I have implemented this sees a lot of activity, so I can't say it is well tested in production.

With that said, your concerns have not come up as issues for me. But if they did I'd probably start by looking at doing something with onbeforeunload.

Re: New version of Griffin.Networking – A networking library for .NET

ripryness — Sat, 17 Nov 2012 18:26:43 -0000

Thanks for your contributions they really are amazing.

I'll throw this out there as something I think would be useful. Based on some google searches (and not finding much) there seems to be somewhat of a demand.

When self hosting the new Web API there can be a need to serve static content. Currently I have this implemented by injecting a custom message handler to the front of the pipeline. But this is just the most basic server. (I did find your ContentTypeHelper to be quite useful for this).

What would be really awesome is if your C# Webserver could be injected into MessageHandler pipeline for self hosting scenarios. It is on my list to dig into your code and see if I can do this but my lame solution is working for now.

Re: A Venn Diagram for Rick Perry: Social Security Is Not a Ponzi Scheme

ripryness — Fri, 09 Sep 2011 08:12:00 -0000

Lis,

You are not understanding the nature of these "Treasuries". They aren't "Treasuries" at all. They are more like IOU's. Not worth the paper they're printed on.

What is being done with the money that is paid in? It is being spent just like every other kind of money. In fact when Bill Clinton supposedly had balanced budgets it was because of excess Soc Sec money spent as general fund money. Those budgets were not actually balanced.

Consider that if the gov decided not to honor these "Treasuries" none of the credit rating agencies would count that as a default.

You are being lied to.

Re: A Venn Diagram for Rick Perry: Social Security Is Not a Ponzi Scheme

ripryness — Tue, 06 Sep 2011 17:16:46 -0000

It's "like" a ponzi scheme in that there is a claim to a "trust fund" that doesn't exist. It is in no way like any insurance where actual money has to exist.

Re: A Venn Diagram for Rick Perry: Social Security Is Not a Ponzi Scheme

ripryness — Tue, 06 Sep 2011 17:07:56 -0000

"...special issue US Treasury obligations" is actually what makes it "like" a Ponzi scheme. Gotta love the liberal echo chamber though.

Re: SWAT Team Mania: The War Against the American Citizen

ripryness — Mon, 13 Jun 2011 20:14:32 -0000

So how do you prosecute a war on drugs without a militarized police force and without destroying the 4th amendment?

Re: America is a Constitutional Republic

ripryness — Mon, 25 Oct 2010 20:58:50 -0000

I absolutely agree. The Government has no right to tell a free man what he can consume.

Re: Pierre report tells story of tragedy across South Dakota

ripryness — Mon, 14 Dec 2009 11:58:42 -0000

What an incredibly liberal opinion. We don't need government to save us from ourselves. We don't need to burden police, costing the tax payers money, because some choose to not wear a seat belt. We need more liberty not less.

Re: Marijuana Problem Growing Among Children in South Dakota

ripryness — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 21:15:40 -0000

My point is prohibition makes it easier for children to get pot than if it were legal and regulated. Let me explain. I don't want to see kids get drugs I just see regulation as the better way to accomplish that goal.

The problem is when you make a market illegal all that happens is you hand control of that market over to criminals. Criminals don't check their buyers for ID, that is why high school aged kids report it is easier to get weed than alcohol. Criminals also don't put warning labels on their products neither do they follow any manufacturing standards.

After 30 years of prohibition what have we gained? Well apparently an increase in SD's youth "seeking" treatment for marijuana as pointed out by your article. We have also seen the rise (invention) of crack cocaine and meth. Cocaine and herion are as prevalent as they have ever been. Prices haven't changed much, if anything they have probably gone down. Heroin funds the Taliban who are killing our young men. So after filling our prisons and focusing our resources on drugs what have we gained? I have a friend in TX who is a county sheriff and he told me 85% of his time is spent on drug interdiction. I think we should better pick our battles.

There are markets worth fighting like child porn, stolen credit card numbers etc... There is a finite number of resources for law enforcement and I think drugs are not worth the fight. Regulation is a better way forward and we can focus our law enforcement resources on more serious crimes. Taking back control of the drug market would give us more flexibility to fight addiction. Tobacco is a good example of a terribly addictive substance that has seen a huge decrease in use through education and taxes, all without prohibition.

Re: Marijuana Problem Growing Among Children in South Dakota

ripryness — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 17:19:04 -0000

KELO and Dakota Voice make it sound like these kids are addicted and "seeking" treatment. The fact is the overwhelming majority of this "treatment" is forced on these youngsters because they were caught possessing. It's part of their punishment. This is a common tactic used by the prohibitionists. The fact is young people consistently report that it is easier for them to buy weed then it is to buy alcohol. Why do you think that is?

Re: Fox News and the ‘Mainstream’ Media: A Study in Contrasts

ripryness — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 15:04:51 -0000

I've been a news hound for over 13 years and regrettably supported the Iraq war before and sometime after. That opinion was based on the MSM coverage at the time, since that's all I used to read. I'm sure there are media examples for both or our opinions about the MSM in this regard.

Re: Fox News and the ‘Mainstream’ Media: A Study in Contrasts

ripryness — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 11:45:50 -0000

I just want to point out that although the MSM generally tends left, we would likely have never went into Iraq had they not been patsies for the Bush administrations propaganda on WMD's. One big problem with most "journalism" these days whether it's Fox or the so called MSM is the use of anonymous sources. Another big issue is the inherent conflict of interest due to their reliance on advertising. The former is something they need to clean up, the latter is just something to keep in mind when consuming news from these sources and should prompt each of us to seek out unbiased (by advertising) news and opinion from sources such as Dakota Voice.

Re: ‘Mainstream’ Media: Border Control is Gestapo-Like

ripryness — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 11:33:38 -0000

We're more of an oligarchy than a socialist state, IMO. And that has a lot to do with Republicans, of which I am one. Really Sheriff Arpaio is picking on the "easy" targets, when really we should be focusing on the businesses that hire these folks. The industries that benefit the most from the illegal workers have a lot of money and influence so they aren't as easy as picking on the poor folks.

Re: Legalizing Meth to Protect Users From Unsafe Drugs

ripryness — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 21:46:37 -0000

I'll let you have the last word. Maybe we can discuss this in more depth in person sometime. Hope to see you Sunday.

Re: Legalizing Meth to Protect Users From Unsafe Drugs

ripryness — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 21:10:28 -0000

I'm not disagreeing with your original topic so that is no fun to discuss :).

All you do by making drugs illegal is hand control of those things over to criminals. There is no way to stop it. They can't even keep drugs out of death row. And it wastes precision lay enforcement resources and fills up our prison system.

Addiction is better handled in a different way than prohibition. I tend to agree that people equate legal=safe and that will need to change once prohibition has ended.

Did you ever know a drug addict that prohibition saved? Do you think we should go back to alcohol prohibition?

Re: Legalizing Meth to Protect Users From Unsafe Drugs

ripryness — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 17:02:26 -0000

Although I do agree with your point as it relates to abortion I think you've stepped in it when it comes to meth and the prohibition of drugs in general. Meth came into existence during this long period of prohibition in this country. And although I agree that meth as it was concocted by the Mexican drug lords in the 80's and by others today is harmful and should never be legal. What should be legal is access to amphetamines. Because there was no legal access to amphetamines as there were in the 60's and 70's in the form of "diet" pills, meth came into existence. This is a perfect example of how prohibition makes things worse. During the 30's we saw the rise of bath tub gin that was extremely dangerous and we see the same thing happen with meth and other illegal drugs today.

Placing robbery and murder into the same category as personal choices such as taking drugs is a specious argument. Robbery and murder have very real and direct victims while taking drugs is a personal choice. And although drug addiction can have consequences that affect others, it’s no different then alcoholism in that regard.

Re: Gas tax increase just a proposal sounds a lot like hyperbole

ripryness — Mon, 31 Aug 2009 12:42:38 -0000

Surely there must be a way to find other programs to cut in order to pay for this without raising a single fee or tax. I propose we at least try to shrink the size of the SD government before we agree to any additional levies.