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How long until lack of support for the Messiah becomes deadly?

Are you stupid? A quick google search yields stuff like this:

http://www.local6.com/news/13542239/detail.html
http://www.local6.com/news/10832086/detail.html?rss=orlpn&psp=news
http://www.foxcarolina.com/news/17379037/detail.html#-
http://www.tcpalm.com/news/2008/sep/19/home-invader-fatally-shot/
http://www.wptv.com/content/tcoast/story.aspx?content_id=13fcb937-2235-4ad3-9322-974c87b31eb1

I could post tons more links, but I think you get the idea. Of course, there's plenty of stories of home invaders shooting unarmed residents, and that's a good reason to keep guns in your home.

Of course, dumb liberals like yourself probably think that banning all guns will simple stop home invasions, completely neglecting the fact that many criminals are large men who've spent lots of time in prison pumping iron, and don't need guns to commit crimes against women, children, or elderly people. It only takes a swift kick to get inside a modern home, with the way they build them now. If you're a 75-year-old woman, how exactly are you going to defend yourself against 4 musclebound men intent on doing you harm?

Are you stupid? A quick google search yields stuff like this:

http://www.local6.com/news/13542239/detail.html
http://www.local6.com/news/10832086/detail.html?rss=orlpn&psp=news
http://www.foxcarolina.com/news/17379037/detail.html#-
http://www.tcpalm.com/news/2008/sep/19/home-invader-fatally-shot/
http://www.wptv.com/content/tcoast/story.aspx?content_id=13fcb937-2235-4ad3-9322-974c87b31eb1

I could post tons more links, but I think you get the idea. Of course, there's plenty of stories of home invaders shooting unarmed residents, and that's a good reason to keep guns in your home.

Of course, dumb liberals like yourself probably think that banning all guns will simple stop home invasions, completely neglecting the fact that many criminals are large men who've spent lots of time in prison pumping iron, and don't need guns to commit crimes against women, children, or elderly people. It only takes a swift kick to get inside a modern home, with the way they build them now. If you're a 75-year-old woman, how exactly are you going to defend yourself against 4 musclebound men intent on doing you harm?

...all police get to experience the taser and pepper spray before they are issued the gear, so they know it hurts like a motherfucker.

Sorry, but this is completely untrue. I know a number of police officers and my brother used to be one. I just double checked with him. He was issued police grade pepper spray but neither he nor any of the other cops he knew had tried it on themselves. A couple of them had tried stun guns on themselves, but just horsing around, not as part of training.

i can't find the specifics of the case you are talking about, but i'm assuming since you didn't state she died, that she didn't. until you post a link to a news article i'm going to point out even old grannies can wield a knife.

Strangely I assumed typing "elderly woman taser" into Google would bring up the article. Instead it seems to bring up articles about dozens of different incidents. a good one is this one here. The woman was in a wheelchair and was wielding weapons, but since she was elderly and immobilized, without tasers they could have simply waited her out or used a different non-lethal solution instead of tasering her over and over again until she died. Read that article and tell me if you honestly think the cops would have killed her if they did not have tasers.

i will say one thing though. private security shouldn't be issued tasers. all the cases i can find where it was really misused has been private security guards.

Amnesty international's report on taser abuse lists hundreds of deaths, but the vast majority seem to be police (not private security) using them on people who did not pose an immediate threat to the officers or others.

Really, I think tasers can be a great benefit to law enforcement. I just think they have been deployed without proper training or guidelines for when they can be used, and this has lead to overuse and abuse. The same problem is a very real concern with other, new, less-lethal technologies.

Orlando! This was in the news again recently. The Orlando Police Department were intimidating the members of Anonymous and as usual received a letter of thanks from the "Church" for their support.

Scientologists thanking Orlando Police
Intimidating protesters
Video of harassment

Unexplained UFOs spotted over Phoenix, AZ and St. Augustine, FL! What better way to illustrate the truth of Hawking's statements.

I, for one, welcome our new, yet still anonymous alien overlords.. (oblig)

Or when the netmob mistakenly posts the wrong info, and some innocent gets hundreds of threatening phone calls, or worse.

The sorts of G-forces expected on the ride will be less than those experienced on many modern rollercoasters. Granted, the G-forces onboard a spaceplane might be a bit longer in duration, but until we have details on the mission profile, it's difficult to tell. You might end up getting greater G-forces from some of the more extreme rollercoasters out there, and given the physical fitness of a lot of roller coaster riders, I wouldn't worry too much.

In Florida masks are illegal and wearing one is a misdemeanor.
Here's a news relating to it

Then only the criminals will wear them! Genius!

I wonder if anyone can find the actual law so we can see if this would apply to burkas/veils/helmets/floppy hats/etc.

ezVision Video Glasses
... Experience a 50" widescreen...Anywhere...Anytime
http://www.audio-outfitters.com/ezVisionFeatures.html

However, I wonder if these glasses would get the church in trouble all over again:

ezVision X4
... Four Times The Resolution of Standard ezVision G1 . .. and now simulates a 64" virtual screen as viewed from 8.5 feet... and they fit like a pair of glasses.
http://www.audio-outfitters.com/ezvision_X4.html

or these low tech ones

Max TV Glasses Description
Don't miss your favorite show or sporting event. Make your TV screen appear twice as big with these special TV-glasses. Has individual focusing for each eye with a focusing wheel.
http://www.youcantoocan.com/Max_TV_Glasses_P338.cfm

Now they should be safe with this older technology:

HMV Eyeglass TV
This company has built a curious apparatus called"the television eyeglass". It weighs less than 800g, and can be easily held in the hand, like a telephone receiver. The sound is perceived by the earphone which is applied against the ear and the 4 cm x 3 cm picture is visible via a 45 degree mirror.
http://www.earlytelevision.org/hmv.html

And for the people that need to see what is around them while watching, a Japan company has made these for the train commuter:

'Eyeglass' TV For Train Commuters Unveiled
Glasses Ensure Normal Visual Field While Watching Video
http://www.local6.com/technology/13360129/detail.html

made by:
http://www.teleglasses.net/about_teleglass.html
http://www.scalar.co.jp/english/products/teleglass.html

Anyone remember the iPod box filled with meat?

I wonder how long before it becomes a political weapon of mass discreditation?

Given the way things are going in the GOP, I'm guessing it will become more of an excuse.

He was NOT electrocuted. Electrocution implies current passed through his heart. Obviously the taser only caused localized pain restricted to the tased area since he could walk fine afterwards.

Corporations push the envelope all the time, and when they overstep, the only recourse (unfortunately in most cases) is a stiff lawsuit. That is the check and balance of the corporate world: liability and damages.

I myself don't worry about it, because time after time the GPL stands up in court

You better wake up pal, and starting wrapping your house in plastic and duct tape!

It would seem that since the actual offender cannot be identified from the photos, it is not reasonable. That would be the whole reason why these aren't allowed in the place the original poster mentioned.

It is not in fact reasonable to automatically assume that the owner of an object is guilty of a crime committed with that object. All you have proof of is that something owned by a particular individual was used in the commission of a crime. You do not have proof that that individual was the guilty party.

You have evidence that would be accepted in a civil case where a preponderance of the evidence is all that is necessary. Not a criminal case where there must not be a reasonable doubt and you have been issued a citation by a police officer or otherwise accused of violation of the law.

All you have to do to get around this is is move the camera and make sure that it has the resolution to photograph the actual suspect, and then you will have enough evidence. But without that crucial piece of evidence, no, you cannot pin the charge on someone. And the post farther up the thread specifically stated that there is no clear image of the suspect.

And read and be educated, and there's lots more out there if you spend a few minutes to research the topic:

http://weekendpundit.blogmosis.com/lastweekend/027 331.html
http://www.local6.com/news/13686476/detail.html

I don't believe that taking this course is going to make any person a greater danger to themselves or anyone else. Going by various news reports and research, there are plenty ways of injuring yourself without resorting to industrial explosives:

There was a kid who blinded himself after messing about with a frog and a potato gun with his friends

And there are 9000 injuries due to fireworks each year.

It's too bad the US isn't building a National Ignition Facility to produce fusion in the laboratory using the largest lasers on the planet.

If only there were physicists scrutinizing the data produced by something like Gravity Probe B here in the US.

Something like a Z Machine would be really useful for high energy physics, but the fundies in the US won't allow it.

Then there is NASA, sitting its laurels of times long past, not making any effort to replace [1] the ill-conceived shuttle.

The US isn't attempting to measure the rate of polar ice cap melting using precise measurements of the exact center of mass of the entire planet. No, because physics in the US sucks and that sort of work is best left to others.

If the NSF wasn't completely dominated by neo-cons it might have funded Kip Thorne and let him build the most sensitive laser interferometer on Earth.

There aren't a dozen people orbiting the planet attempting to assemble the largest space based solar collector in history; the physics involved are far beyond anything practiced in the US. I can just imagine Americans in space, risking life and limb. They'd probably find themselves using staple guns to keep from getting killed on live TV. The US is too cowardly for any of that.

If Europe had only had the wisdom to exclude the US from LHC, Fermilab's mistakes wouldn't have led to their current magnet problems. There's the US again, setting back physics by another decade.

Then there are the beef-eaters in Detroit, oblivious to any concept that doesn't involve guzzling gas.

Those damn Christens did manage to stifle US fusion research; the next big Tokamak is being built in France for crying-out-loud. There's hardly even any US funding involved.

That article is right. The US is nothing but a swill of gun-toting suburbanite consumers, polluting and terrorizing the world.

[1] Watch the quarterly report video on the right panel; bunch of silly US bubba cowboys trying to engineer a rocket. What a laugh.

I bet the government built the fake Disney as a way to avoid further international embarrasment related to overcrowding at the real China Disney in Hong Kong.

The crowds swelled beyond belief during the Chinese New Year in 2006. Parents were so distraught that they started throwing their kids over the entry gates. There were some hilarious videos of this floating around out there. Can anyone find a link?

That can be applied to sightings of many other things.

The problem is, how does one determine which patterns indicate something and which patterns are just convincing illusions?

in response to the growing, and in this thread expressed, opinion that people *outdoors* should also refrain from smoking. Outdoors is a public place, and that was what I was aiming at. [...]
But, in any case, I do live in a city, and I am forced to inhale car fumes of people that enjoy their mobility for no good reason. What are your thoughts on this

There we go.

Nope - I see your hype and raise you Real Live Rattlesnakes!

This would absolutely keep me out of the theater.

But who (over 12 years-old) saw the previews to this and thought it would be a fun movie to see?? This looked like one of those straight-to-DVD films it looks so stupid.

The only way to make this movie exciting.

Two live diamondback rattlesnakes were released in an Arizona movie theater during a showing of the new film "Snakes on a Plane," according to Local 6 News. Authorities said pranksters released the young venomous rattlesnakes in a dark theater at the AMC Desert Ridge near Tatum and Loop 101 in Phoenix. The two snakes caused a panic in the dark theater, according to the report. "That to me is very scary," herpetological association representative Tom Whiting said. "I would hate to be watching a movie about snakes and have a rattlesnake bite me." Wranglers were called to collect the snakes, the report said. No one was injured in the incident and, so far, the culprits have not been caught. Officials believe the snakes were smuggled into the theater in backpacks. "This thing is under someone's chair and they go to sit and they just push your foot in the air and startle it -- obviously all they got to do is startle this thing," Phoenix Herpetological Society spokesman Daniel Marchand said. "It's dark. They can't see you, you know that well. If it's scared, boom it strikes." The snakes were released into the desert.

http://www.local6.com/news/9717727/detail.html
Snakes in a Theater... we all saw this coming. (until the lights went dim after the previews)

apparently there are snake in the Mother F***in Theater as well

Maybe the snakes scared the movie-goers away.

http://bbsnews.net/bw2003-04-05.html http://www.rense.com/general20/innocentmanshot.htm http://www2.oprah.com/tows/pastshows/200505/tows_p ast_20050526.jhtml http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/2735735.stm http://abclocal.go.com/wpvi/story?section=local&id =4212279 http://www.local6.com/news/4174721/detail.html

But the bad news is if they bring it back, all those OSS projects will be targetted for shutdown. Their official announcement is a bit scary.

Well the conclusion of most scientific studies on the matter is mixed. There is no proof that the brain "works on" anything during the sleep cycle. One highly regarded study concluded that dreams and the like are just a primal response intended to keep our brains alert in case of nearby predators, dangers, etc.

yeah, nice how you ignored the Florida Rep.'s Wife who was removed as well for wearing a PRO military t-shirt...

From Wired: The resulting liability issues are a major hurdle. If a robotically driven car gets in an accident, who is to blame? If a software bug causes a car to swerve off the road, should the programmer be sued, or the manufacturer? Or is the accident victim at fault for accepting the driving decisions of the onboard computer? Would Ford or GM be to blame for selling a "faulty" product, even if, in the larger view, that product reduced traffic deaths by tens of thousands?

It figures. A technological advance that would cut the number of traffic deaths by about 95% by taking drunks and maniacs out from behind the wheel, and preventing 93 year-old men with dementia from killing people, will be bogged down by liability issues should the robot kill someone. C'mon people! Even the best system will not prevent a fluke accident or yes, even a bit of bad code, from killing someone, but weight that against the number of road-rage infested idiots on the road now, driving at 100+ mph, swerving in and out of traffic, and I think libility needs to be the furthest thing from anyone's mind.

Just don't let Microsoft write the software.

The thing that bugs me about articles like this, and about the whole 'falling bullet' story in general, is that they don't give you a couple of pieces of critical information.

What was the angle of the strike? Was it nearly vertical, or closer to horizontal? If the unfortunate Mr. McDaniel had an entry wound just above his collarbone, I'd agree we're talking about a falling bullet. If it struck his chest level with his heart, then the speed of the bullet is from the muzzle velocity, not from gravity. We tend to think firing a gun "into the air" means close to vertical. But remember, plenty of the shooters are drunk, so "into the air" could mean pretty much anything higher than horizontal.

What kind of gun was it? I don't know much about firearms, but it seems unlikely that a handgun would be able to kill at a mile range. A large-caliber rifle would be more likely.

A falling bullet actually killed Henry McDaniel of Orlando almost a year ago. It was big news locally. Here is the scoop:
http://www.local6.com/news/4084756/detail.html

Man Arrested In New Year's 'Falling Bullet' Death
Bullet Traveled 1 Mile Before Piercing Man's Heart

POSTED: 5:51 pm EST January 14, 2005
UPDATED: 10:28 pm EST January 15, 2005

ORLANDO, Fla. -- Orange County sheriff's deputies have arrested a 24-year-old man Friday who allegedly fired a bullet into the sky on New Year's Eve that later fell to earth and pierced a man's heart, according to Local 6 News.

Henry McDaniel, 75, was walking in a neighborhood near Orlando just before midnight when he collapsed in the street, witnesses and sheriff's officials said. He had been at a party celebrating the New Year with friends and had decided to visit another house.

Before he collapsed, McDaniel told friends who were standing with him near the street: "Boys, something hit me. Something hit me."

Doctors at Orlando Regional Medical Center later discovered the bullet, which struck his heart.

Officials blamed the death on a common but illegal practice by New Year's Eve revelers to shoot into the air and began an investigation.

On New Year's Eve, an Orlando police officer responded to the 1000 block of Plymouth Avenue after reports of gunshots.

The Orlando police officer reportedly confiscated a gun from Richardo Roach, 24, (pictured, left) and then contacted the Orange County Sheriff's Office after hearing about McDaniel's death. Roach reportedly admitted to firing the gun into the air, Local 6 News reported.

The weapon was examined forensically by the Sheriff's Office and then by the Florida Department of Law Enforcement. It was determined that the confiscated weapon fired the round that killed McDaniel.

The bullet traveled more than one mile before it came down and hit McDaniel, Local 6 News reported.

Roach was interviewed by officers and later arrested. He has been charged with manslaughter.

http://www.local6.com/slideshow/news/5490957/detai l.html?s=1;p=news;dm=ss;w=400

What you describe sounds the same for both technologies. In both cases you describe the interceptor must have access to the line that the call is traversing.

But, apparently you haven't thought it all through. Think about the fact that while you have to be physically present to operate a butt set, with VoIP you simply have to compromise any of the machines along the call path with a trojan or a worm and then run a sniffer or reflector. This allows you to monitor calls remotely rather than having to physically put alligator clips on the wires as you would with a butt set.

But, that's not all. Think about the issues of denial of service. How do you render a phone unusable without some form of physical access. With VoIP you can render a phone unusable from a remote location with something as simple as a smurf attack from anywhere on the planet. With VoIP, I can use my PDA to shutdown your phone and there is nothing you can do to stop me. There is also no way for you to trace the source of the attack back to me.

That may not sound like a big deal to you but, suppose you needed to call an ambulance at the particular moment that a script kiddie decided to DoS your phone. Suppose you were a business and this attack was used against your PBX, effectively disabling thousands of extensions. Suppose such an attack were launched against a hospital's PBX.

Then there are the more standard reliability issues. You may be surprised to hear that most internet connections are not nearly as reliable as most phone lines. This is a little secret that many of today's VoIP users are discovering. Here's just one example that happened to make the news. The fact is that it happens all the time but is rarely reported. However, this is rather rare with todays POTS service.

VoIP security is about a lot more than wire taps.

For example, you'd expect to see animals with 1 arm, 2 arms, 3 arms, 10 arms, no arms, half an arm, round arms, and so on for every part of the body while evolution is fine tuning this stuff. As far as I know, this isn't the case.

Now your getting stupid. Evolution doesn't work the way you think. I suggest actualyl learning about it.

You guys need to read fark.

This news video shows that there is a door on the front that covers the screen when closed. The surface of the door is where the solar cells are located for recharging the lithium-ion battery, which only holds a 30 minute charge.

This article seems to clear up a few things. http://www.local6.com/news/4843803/detail.html

You can take all the precautions that are humanly possible and still a terrorist bird slips through the screen and boinks the fuel tank on the nose scattering who knows how much foam onto the shuttle. Now where are my spare shorts? http://www.local6.com/technology/4772658/detail.ht ml

and some more

It's worth pointing out that the story liked by parent post includes photos.

Unfortunately the price after all is said and done: "By the time it's perfected, the cost of manufacturing the bionic arm is expected to be about $6 million, according to the report."(http://www.local6.com/news/4643968/detail .html)

It is still good to see technology used to change someone's life for the positive.

http://www.local6.com/contact/

Tell the city jerks....

1. Open bid it $1800 a month that's nuts
2. Cover the city not just one itsy bitsy park
3. Advertise it on the news....

Kids tend to SWALLOW batteries Batteries are dangerious Still how toxic does this compare to batteries today they swallow?

Giving your apparent inability to respond in an intelligent manner to these non-time-sensitive posts on Slashdot, I can only assume your driving skills, which are frequently dictated by your ability to make split-second decisions, fall roughly between this woman's and a cadaver's.

I fear for the safety of the occupants of your vehicle as you display the average judgement of a 13 year old thug in a stolen Celebrity. You are clearly one of the many clueless sods I encounter on a daily basis, and I shall delight in reading the obituary generated when you go flailing off an overpass somewhere because your Omni wasn't able to handle the turn at 80 mph not because it was technically incapable, but because you're clearly utterly clueless behind the wheel.

He said people "prefer to believe" that the reason there are fewer women in science and engineering is due to social factors and discrimination, "but there are things that need to be studied." link

Although, to be fair, most of the news stories are just as guilty of not looking at what was actually said. As one of the other participants pointed out, though:

Paula Stephan, a professor of economics at Georgia State University, said the remarks did not offend her. "I think if you come to participate in a research conference," she said, "you should expect speakers to present hypotheses that you may not agree with and then discuss them on the basis of research findings." link

If you can't ask the question "what if there really are biological differences?" at an academic research conference, where the hell can that question be asked?

If there are differences, we do ourselves no favour by ignoring them; research into them could show us better ways of teaching to boys and girls so both learn better.

If there are no differences, we certainly do ourselves no favour by refusing to finally examine and dismiss the notion forever. Until there is clear research on the issue, there will always be the question lurking unasked in the background.

For fuck's sakes, people, how did "are boys and girls different?" get to be a verboten question?

(Disclaimer before someone whines: yes, I know plenty of excellent female scientists---I work for a couple of them---but thanks for trying to undermine the questioner instead of answering the damn question. True spirit of scientific inquiry, there.)

I doubt there's a ubiquitous underground, well-coordinated, Republican subversion of all the voting machines in the battleground states so as to fudge the election.

I also doubt that John Kerry or John Edwards personally signed off on the slashing of tires on cars used by the RNC to transport voters. Based on that same line of reasoning I wouldn't put it past the manufacturers of these voting machines to "help out" their man. Let's not forget that the party surrogates (on both sides) in this election were just as bad (if not worse) as the DNC/RNC or Karl Rove himself. Whether it was Michael Moore or Swift Boat Vets for the Truth... none of these groups did anything other then drag the debate down to the level of a playground fight.

Unfortunately I don't think we can ever trust our election system again as long as we allow something as important as a paperless voting machine to be built and programmed by a private company with an interest in the outcome of the election. I'd be interested to know if the exit polls were wrong all over the place or only in the districts with e-voting. If the latter is the case then god help us....

You must work for Life Gem.

This is insightful? That it would be better if chess were banned in these places because it offends some religious sensibilities? What a world. Should this person have been fired? I love the twisting of the 1st amendment in that one. Priceless.

Should my daughter wear a burqa lest someone be offended? Or is it ok that she doesn't as long as I understand that she is inviting rape?

Wouldn't it actually be better if "their own Muslim populations and others of that faith around the world" were more tolerant of others? I'm not holding my breath for that one.