1: Fine, but you gotta admit that it doesn't take extremely convoluted non-logic to see the other side of that argument.
2: I'm not trying to say that she was promoting underage drinking, I'm saying that that's what the university says she's doing. I mentioned that it is possible to promote something without doing it yourself. Example: If I make beer, and I use Bugs Bunny and other cartoon characters in the commercials doing plenty of drinking, I could easily find myself being accused of promoting underage drinking. The fact that I didn't depict kids drinking is irrelevant.
Again, I'm on her side. The university is out of line. But I didn't see enough devil's advocates weighing in, so I stepped up to the plate.
Because it is not a threat in any conceivable way.
This was intended to be an utterly useless list of potential targets, to demonstrate the differences between 10% positive predictive value for a fire alarm, and 10% positive predictive value for intelligence officers.
Bangladesh is also not a threat to anyone except itself.
We went to Iraq, and that's turned out so well for us.
Switzerland is always neutral, mountainous, and well armed.
Mongolia is sparsely populated, and in difficult terrain for tanks.
Chile is mountainous, sparsely populated, no threat to anyone, and has better targets nearby.
Vietnam has proven difficult for us in the past, but has not threatened us when we weren't busy napalming them.
Philippines are just because I felt like having a representative from the South Pacific, and we've had naval bases there.
Liberia is not a threat, and I appreciated the irony of using a country completely created by the US.
Qatar, I just picked. No real reason.
And North Korea is the one that is a valid danger.
Yep, because that military guy is the reason we won't sign the Ottawa Treaty. He is completely against it, and is being thoroughly hypocritical here. You've hit the nail on the head there.
Just make them look like giant spiders or something. It's an excellent design for a robot that's meant to continue towards a destination despite ongoing dismemberment. It's very hard to get a powerful connection to them, even hardcore animal rights people I know still squash 'bugs'. (I know what a bug is, and that spiders don't qualify. Generic arthropod term here.) Issues include people who have phobias killing it themselves. Either that, or make it something reusable, like a Roomba style flailtruck. Drives around an area defined and bounded by GPS coordinates, has an automatic off if it's within 100 feet of a person who's carrying an RFID transmitter or something, and beats the ground with spinning chains to simulate stepping pressure.
The question isn't whether she's a real pirate. The question is whether she's promoting underage drinking, which can be done even if she wasn't holding a cup. I agree that this whole thing has been blown way out of proportion by the university, and that they overreacted. She should get the degree she's earned. But please find better arguments.
Look, you asked why everyone was assuming there was alcohol in the cup. I pointed out that the caption placed on said picture by the person depicted strongly suggests use of alcohol. You rebutted that she may have lied on the caption, and provide a zombie metaphor. I am now explaining that she's not getting in trouble for murder on the high seas, she's getting in trouble for promoting underage drinking. I agree that she shouldn't be getting in trouble for this, but you're not making good arguments.
You know, one of the best teachers I ever had was my high school Economics teacher, but he taught so much more than economics. He taught life. Many of his stories involved things that he could not recommend we do, given that he was a teacher.
Example: In class, we were learning about things that can increase production. One of the things on the list was more educated/intelligent employees. Then he started with a story about when he worked on a machine where he would have to take bundles of cardboard, stuff them into the shredder, and repeat this for his 8 hour day. Now, it didn't take him long to figure out how to be a little too enthusiastic stuffing cardboard into the shredder, and jam the whole thing up. When that happened, he'd have to go outside, climb the ladder up to the roof, and fix the clog. So, when it was a nice day outside, and sweltering inside, there was a much greater chance of him 'accidentally' jamming the machine, going outside, climbing up to the roof, and relaxing until he started hearing boots on the ladder, which was his signal to fix the problem before his supervisor caught him wasting time in the sun.
A teacher is not supposed to recommend learning how to cheat your employer to students. People would probably call it unprofessional. But if people had stopped him from getting his teaching certificate, that would have been a far greater problem.
Does that mean that you'd also be happy in accepting no birth control, but abortion clinics popping up like Starbucks? After all, there are unintended pregnancies that would not be prevented by spreading the word that birth control is good. Rape is probably the one most likely, followed by the 1% or whatever the actual number is of condoms that fail. Someone could have done everything right, but still end up with a child she didn't want. In the case of a rape victim, she could end up with this living breathing reminder of what happened to her that night. That doesn't spell excellent care for the child.
You do realize that by using the words 'promiscuous lesbian' on/., you have successfully drawn the attention of everyone without getting any of them to finish the comment.
I've got it working, but only the 1 player stuff. Can't get the multiplayer modes to work, though. My brother and I want to see who'll win, my Timetwisters or his Berserks.
Bangladesh Vietnam Switzerland Qatar Le Sotho North Korea Iraq Chile Phillipines Liberia Mongolia
I suppose that if we bombed the living hell out of Bangladesh, that'd be an increase in the standard of living. There's no government in the world that wouldn't be an improvement over what we'd sweep away. Do it while my aunt and her family are states-side, though.
It depends. The mouse is nicer than any other controller I've use for things like aiming. However, I'm a great fan of a controller instead of a keyboard for moving. Have you tried sneaking around in Splinter Cell on a computer? Crouch, then twitch-tap the movement keys like an ADHD squirrel on amphetamines. If you just hold the damn key down, you'll alert them to your presence, and die. On the other hand, playing Hitman on the computer vs. PS2, I can pull off headshots with impunity using a mouse, less so using the analog stick.
For fire alarms, sure. But that's just an analogy for intelligence officers. I don't want the president to get a list of 10 countries with WMDs, for example, only one of which actually has anything. Give him a list of 11, 10 of which are correct.
In the same way, being overly trusting is similarly useless. But we're not looking at two fire alarms, one always buzzing and one never buzzing. We're looking at two fire alarms, one that's hypersensitive, and gets set off by guy with lighter, and one that's undersensitive, and may not trigger even when there is a fire. I'd rather have my fire alarm going off for 110% of the fires than going off for only 90% of them.
Or, to remain true to my sig, I'll take an order of paranoia, cut the conspiracy theory.
Depends on how you want to generate the pulse you need, and how much of a pulse you're using. High-end railguns can get some truly phenomenal energies, but they're prone to arc-welding the sabot to the rails instead of firing. At this point, you must reconstruct everything except the pulse mechanism, and you might have to service that depending on tolerances.
Below that you have stable railguns which do not weld instead of shooting, but still must be serviced after each shot to repair damage done to the rails from friction.
By the time you hit railguns that can be fired over and over again without ill effect, you've lost the ability to replace missiles as the Navy was looking into, and you instead have a viable antimissile system. You can now shoot targets out of the sky with impunity, but you need to put back your ballistic missiles. Hell, you could probably replace SAMs with them too.
The last problem is that they need to be on very stable platforms. Unlike a missile, which generates it's energy through a chemical reaction upon reaching the target, railguns fire sabots. All the energy this 2.2 kg piece of tungsten is going to have is generated at the ship, and a loose railgun can be ripped from it's bolts and thrown across the deck by the recoil.
I love slashdot. Nothing excites me more than a good spelling mistake, not changed for fixed by our Great Editors. What's this "advenced" and how I get one myself?
I used to play a MUD like that. I got sick of the Random level 50 wandering around hellstreaming people, so I quit. Simple. I found another MUD. Sure as hell I didn't try to sue them for harassment or murder or theft or something. A friend of mine has started up a character on that MUD now, tried telling me how much better it is now. Doesn't matter, I've got better things to do.
In any case, while 32 bits might do it for all sets of car keys, will they do it for everything that needs to be indexed? IPv6 should be our rolemodel in this.
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You can't limit these kinds of things to insider information. If there's one thing Kevin Mitnick taught us, it's that employees do not know what information can make the company vulnerable. This is true at every level. At a place I used to work, monies are kept in a safe in the office. Through a good working relationship with one of the managers, I know where the spare key to the office is kept, where the security camera logs are kept, and that the combination to the safe is on a post-it note right next to the safe. I didn't even ask for any of that stuff. It would be truly simple to show up some night at 3 am, rob the place, and walk out by 3:15 without leaving any evidence. The necessary tools would be a flashlight, and a crowbar/tire iron/something to break glass.
Things are even easier in the digital realm. Suppose Google Employee Joe starts blogging about this great idea he's been working on. He mentions that he found some of the source code in the Google Search Algorithms. And he posts the source to his neat project, because he's a nice guy. Pity he wasn't a security conscious guy instead. Or something less blatant, but you get the picture.
Also, the comma would create an independent clause. That it is not there is significant from a lawyer-speak point of view.
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1: Fine, but you gotta admit that it doesn't take extremely convoluted non-logic to see the other side of that argument.
2: I'm not trying to say that she was promoting underage drinking, I'm saying that that's what the university says she's doing. I mentioned that it is possible to promote something without doing it yourself. Example: If I make beer, and I use Bugs Bunny and other cartoon characters in the commercials doing plenty of drinking, I could easily find myself being accused of promoting underage drinking. The fact that I didn't depict kids drinking is irrelevant.
Again, I'm on her side. The university is out of line. But I didn't see enough devil's advocates weighing in, so I stepped up to the plate.
Because it is not a threat in any conceivable way.
This was intended to be an utterly useless list of potential targets, to demonstrate the differences between 10% positive predictive value for a fire alarm, and 10% positive predictive value for intelligence officers.
Bangladesh is also not a threat to anyone except itself.
We went to Iraq, and that's turned out so well for us.
Switzerland is always neutral, mountainous, and well armed.
Mongolia is sparsely populated, and in difficult terrain for tanks.
Chile is mountainous, sparsely populated, no threat to anyone, and has better targets nearby.
Vietnam has proven difficult for us in the past, but has not threatened us when we weren't busy napalming them.
Philippines are just because I felt like having a representative from the South Pacific, and we've had naval bases there.
Liberia is not a threat, and I appreciated the irony of using a country completely created by the US.
Qatar, I just picked. No real reason.
And North Korea is the one that is a valid danger.
Yep, because that military guy is the reason we won't sign the Ottawa Treaty. He is completely against it, and is being thoroughly hypocritical here. You've hit the nail on the head there.
Just make them look like giant spiders or something. It's an excellent design for a robot that's meant to continue towards a destination despite ongoing dismemberment. It's very hard to get a powerful connection to them, even hardcore animal rights people I know still squash 'bugs'. (I know what a bug is, and that spiders don't qualify. Generic arthropod term here.) Issues include people who have phobias killing it themselves. Either that, or make it something reusable, like a Roomba style flailtruck. Drives around an area defined and bounded by GPS coordinates, has an automatic off if it's within 100 feet of a person who's carrying an RFID transmitter or something, and beats the ground with spinning chains to simulate stepping pressure.
The question isn't whether she's a real pirate. The question is whether she's promoting underage drinking, which can be done even if she wasn't holding a cup. I agree that this whole thing has been blown way out of proportion by the university, and that they overreacted. She should get the degree she's earned. But please find better arguments.
Look, you asked why everyone was assuming there was alcohol in the cup. I pointed out that the caption placed on said picture by the person depicted strongly suggests use of alcohol. You rebutted that she may have lied on the caption, and provide a zombie metaphor. I am now explaining that she's not getting in trouble for murder on the high seas, she's getting in trouble for promoting underage drinking. I agree that she shouldn't be getting in trouble for this, but you're not making good arguments.
The picture is captioned: Drunken Pirate.
You know, one of the best teachers I ever had was my high school Economics teacher, but he taught so much more than economics. He taught life. Many of his stories involved things that he could not recommend we do, given that he was a teacher.
Example: In class, we were learning about things that can increase production. One of the things on the list was more educated/intelligent employees. Then he started with a story about when he worked on a machine where he would have to take bundles of cardboard, stuff them into the shredder, and repeat this for his 8 hour day. Now, it didn't take him long to figure out how to be a little too enthusiastic stuffing cardboard into the shredder, and jam the whole thing up. When that happened, he'd have to go outside, climb the ladder up to the roof, and fix the clog. So, when it was a nice day outside, and sweltering inside, there was a much greater chance of him 'accidentally' jamming the machine, going outside, climbing up to the roof, and relaxing until he started hearing boots on the ladder, which was his signal to fix the problem before his supervisor caught him wasting time in the sun.
A teacher is not supposed to recommend learning how to cheat your employer to students. People would probably call it unprofessional. But if people had stopped him from getting his teaching certificate, that would have been a far greater problem.
Does that mean that you'd also be happy in accepting no birth control, but abortion clinics popping up like Starbucks? After all, there are unintended pregnancies that would not be prevented by spreading the word that birth control is good. Rape is probably the one most likely, followed by the 1% or whatever the actual number is of condoms that fail. Someone could have done everything right, but still end up with a child she didn't want. In the case of a rape victim, she could end up with this living breathing reminder of what happened to her that night. That doesn't spell excellent care for the child.
You do realize that by using the words 'promiscuous lesbian' on /., you have successfully drawn the attention of everyone without getting any of them to finish the comment.
Agreed. Gimme some Baldur's Gate II, + ToB. Hey, look at me and my all Epic Mage party. Everyone can suck it.
Also, Age of Wonders: Shadow Magic is the best game that no one else has ever heard of.
If power is going to be an issue, I'll take Go.
Hell, I don't have a social life now.
Give me some Baldur's Gate goodness. Or Planescape: Torment.
I've got it working, but only the 1 player stuff. Can't get the multiplayer modes to work, though. My brother and I want to see who'll win, my Timetwisters or his Berserks.
And isn't that list more valuable than:
Bangladesh
Vietnam
Switzerland
Qatar
Le Sotho
North Korea
Iraq
Chile
Phillipines
Liberia
Mongolia
I suppose that if we bombed the living hell out of Bangladesh, that'd be an increase in the standard of living. There's no government in the world that wouldn't be an improvement over what we'd sweep away. Do it while my aunt and her family are states-side, though.
It depends. The mouse is nicer than any other controller I've use for things like aiming. However, I'm a great fan of a controller instead of a keyboard for moving. Have you tried sneaking around in Splinter Cell on a computer? Crouch, then twitch-tap the movement keys like an ADHD squirrel on amphetamines. If you just hold the damn key down, you'll alert them to your presence, and die. On the other hand, playing Hitman on the computer vs. PS2, I can pull off headshots with impunity using a mouse, less so using the analog stick.
For fire alarms, sure. But that's just an analogy for intelligence officers. I don't want the president to get a list of 10 countries with WMDs, for example, only one of which actually has anything. Give him a list of 11, 10 of which are correct.
In the same way, being overly trusting is similarly useless. But we're not looking at two fire alarms, one always buzzing and one never buzzing. We're looking at two fire alarms, one that's hypersensitive, and gets set off by guy with lighter, and one that's undersensitive, and may not trigger even when there is a fire. I'd rather have my fire alarm going off for 110% of the fires than going off for only 90% of them.
Or, to remain true to my sig, I'll take an order of paranoia, cut the conspiracy theory.
Depends on how you want to generate the pulse you need, and how much of a pulse you're using. High-end railguns can get some truly phenomenal energies, but they're prone to arc-welding the sabot to the rails instead of firing. At this point, you must reconstruct everything except the pulse mechanism, and you might have to service that depending on tolerances.
Below that you have stable railguns which do not weld instead of shooting, but still must be serviced after each shot to repair damage done to the rails from friction.
By the time you hit railguns that can be fired over and over again without ill effect, you've lost the ability to replace missiles as the Navy was looking into, and you instead have a viable antimissile system. You can now shoot targets out of the sky with impunity, but you need to put back your ballistic missiles. Hell, you could probably replace SAMs with them too.
The last problem is that they need to be on very stable platforms. Unlike a missile, which generates it's energy through a chemical reaction upon reaching the target, railguns fire sabots. All the energy this 2.2 kg piece of tungsten is going to have is generated at the ship, and a loose railgun can be ripped from it's bolts and thrown across the deck by the recoil.
My big issue is with hearing the coach at the sports game. Doesn't the Sonic Ear amplify all the ambient noise too?
"Damn, kicked the network cable out again. Aw, shit, they've already got that invisible crap here? Now I'm doomed."
I used to play a MUD like that. I got sick of the Random level 50 wandering around hellstreaming people, so I quit. Simple. I found another MUD. Sure as hell I didn't try to sue them for harassment or murder or theft or something. A friend of mine has started up a character on that MUD now, tried telling me how much better it is now. Doesn't matter, I've got better things to do.
"You're buying -what- size underwear? Ok, we'll lay off the Viagra spam for you. Not like you're ever likely to need it."
Missing the point. HD-DVD ring any bells?
In any case, while 32 bits might do it for all sets of car keys, will they do it for everything that needs to be indexed? IPv6 should be our rolemodel in this.
You can't limit these kinds of things to insider information. If there's one thing Kevin Mitnick taught us, it's that employees do not know what information can make the company vulnerable. This is true at every level. At a place I used to work, monies are kept in a safe in the office. Through a good working relationship with one of the managers, I know where the spare key to the office is kept, where the security camera logs are kept, and that the combination to the safe is on a post-it note right next to the safe. I didn't even ask for any of that stuff. It would be truly simple to show up some night at 3 am, rob the place, and walk out by 3:15 without leaving any evidence. The necessary tools would be a flashlight, and a crowbar/tire iron/something to break glass.
Things are even easier in the digital realm. Suppose Google Employee Joe starts blogging about this great idea he's been working on. He mentions that he found some of the source code in the Google Search Algorithms. And he posts the source to his neat project, because he's a nice guy. Pity he wasn't a security conscious guy instead. Or something less blatant, but you get the picture.
Also, the comma would create an independent clause. That it is not there is significant from a lawyer-speak point of view.