Hey, don't mock the CueCat. Having a "free" barcode scanner that connected inline with your keyboard had some interesting uses, so long as yuo completely ignored what it was *meant* for.
While audio cards weren't common, you could get near audio-card quality from the internal speaker, so long as your CPU had nothing better to do. There were a couple of old PC games that did voice on the internal speaker, though they paused all game action to do it.
If RIAA and the like were interested in the least with keeping up with reality rather than trying to force the "old ways", the labels would reinvent themselves as primarily a specialized advertising and promotional organization. The problem of course being that that has a lower margin than the current model...
"I need to get somewhere directly across the river from me, and I live within a mile of the closest bridge. Instead, since I should completely avoid the Interstate I'll drive 10 miles up to the next bridge that doesn't involve the interstate, cross and then 10 miles back, oh wait I need to come home too, which turned a 10 minute trip into a 40 mile drive.
That's not too far off from reality around here, mind you.
Nah, the only lifelong punitive impediments are for those whose crimes land them on the sex offender registry, which is frankly far too broadly applied. There are crimes where having someone permanently marked with a scarlet letter isn't entirely unreasonable, and something that has victims, is traumatic and has a high recidivism rate is one thing, "I got drunk and whipped it out to take a piss in a public fountain" is another entirely. Both land you on the list.
Seriously, they need to back down on who gets added to the registry, to limit it to those who actually present a heightened risk of being a threat in the future. Otherwise it loses all meaning.
So, once you've been assigned one of these devices you should simply be banned from highway driving? That could be a problem around here, where we both have narrow/no shoulders in many places (especially when we're not talking about the Interstate) and a lot of places are inaccessible from each other without using the Interstate.
Did I mention that that was literally every crime in the town over the last decade more severe than "teenager spraypaints speed limit sign" or other minor vandalism and nonviolent drug charges?
Now speeding, speeding is our primary moneymaker. But we have a frankly unfair speed limit in town. Coming from the east it goes 55->35->15->35->40 (this is a yellow caution sign while you're still in the 35)->45, all in the span of a single mile. =/
Of course the next town over has a straight flat stretch where the speed limit is different in each direction: 40 westbound, 55 eastbound.
Insurance never heard a word of it, nor did the courts. The town's police officer (singular) tracked down the kid who did it and acted as an arbitrator for sorting out the exact details of how to handle them covering the repairs in exchange for not pressing charges.
Within a week my car was good as new, I came out about a hundred bucks or so ahead (difference between the estimate they paid and the low-ball one, the deal was I get three estimates, they pay median), the kid didn't get drug through the courts.
I know I don't worry about it, although USPS doesn't deliver to my home address, so we're talking UPS and FedEx. I live in a small town where in the past 10 years there have been maybe three crimes more severe than "random juvenile vandalism". One of those was somewhat more severe juvenile vandalism (I was the victim in that case, someone slashed the top of my car [Geo Metro convertible]), and the other two were arguments that got out of hand and became assault. Two of those involved no charges being pressed (lock the drunk of the pair up for a night, get them to apologize once everyone has calmed down and is sober / get arrangements for reparation of damages without involving the court system), the third involved a restraining order (20 yr old girl attacked her stepmother, by the time the police arrived the stepmother had things more or less under control, and by under control I mean the stepmother had a pistol in hand and the girl was sitting quietly in it's sights).
Byrd was more or less guaranteed his seat until his death. I'm actually from WV, and the most typical response when you ask someone's opinion of Byrd is "He was corrupt as all hell, but he'd done too much good for this state not to vote for him." Which might sound like an oxymoron, but it's really not -- he did everything in his power to improve his home state, and on any case where that wasn't a concern, well, then he wasn't so "inflexible". He played the "game" of politics and he played it well.
Hell, it wouldn't surprise me if the whole "filibuster the Civil Rights Act" thing wasn't a bid for a vote in his favor elsewhere from someone who was worried about how they'd look in their respective constituency if they tried to do it.
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Whoa, now. Presuming you were referring to me (being the person you directly replied to and all), I only proposed that those were interesting questions.
To what extent and in what ways is a child harmed by "pedophilia" (in quotes so as to include pubescent minors) in which they are honestly a voluntary participant?
^^ I would expect the frequency of "voluntary participants" to become more and more rare as you go younger and younger, but since we're talking "pedophilia" and not restricting ourselves to prepubescents here, I'd hazard that there's a lot of *comparatively* harmless "pedophilia" involving those who are in their teens that isn't reported because some people actually can be discrete when it's necessary.
How much of that harm is due to either reaction of others towards the scenario or treatment for it?
^^ This was a question that had never occurred to me before high school (late ninties), and the realization of exactly how many girls go after guys much older than themselves. One of them got busted with their boyfriend. She was seemingly perfectly normal and well adjusted aside from having a boyfriend a decade older than her right up until they were caught and he was prosecuted. After that she was a mess for a long time and got me thinking -- was it her "horrible victimization" at the hands of a "dangerous sexual predator" that caused her problems, or the reaction to the discovery of such?
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Despite creepiness, it does raise an interesting question: To what extent and in what ways is a child harmed by "pedophilia" (in quotes so as to include pubescent minors) in which they are honestly a voluntary participant? How much of that harm is due to either reaction of others towards the scenario or treatment for it?
Maybe that's the cause of all the confusion -- politicians use a similar acronym for the Constitution of the United States -- COTUS -- and misread it as "COITUS" and think that they're *SUPPOSED* to be fucking it!
Diabetic Neuropathy. Look it up. It's entirely possible he had no feeling or almost no feeling in his toes to begin with, before adding drunk to the mix. Not a complication I have to deal with though, at least not yet (I'll get more jumpy about not feeling my feet when I can't discern the texture of the linoleum clearly anymore). I've been pretty lucky so far, my only complication has been swelling that doesn't respond to lasix.
Q: Does it cause a problem if you have a new HDD installed and working and then upgrade to the new FW, or only if you are running the new FW and install a new drive at that point? I've got a 500GB in mine and haven't grabbed the new FW yet, mostly because I haven't gone to the store yet.
Not exactly, although that is what a lot of politics eventually devolve into, unfortunately.
Remember, Democrats are always wrong on every topic because they murder babies, and you don't want to trust a baby murderer, do you? The sad part is that I've heard more or less that specific argument in the recent past.
While it's not "useless" in the broad sense, high-frequency trading *is* useless, unless you think that turning a stock in less than a minute did anything but let the person doing so make some cash at the detriment of the new buyer.
Heh, I got a comparatively cheap vizio HDTV recently with 120Hz and 1080p support (old one died, and Wal-Mart had a sale). Amusingly, 90% of the HD content I consume is in the form of a PS3 game, since Wii doesn't do "real" HD, it just does one of the lesser ones over SD and my cable provider only carries a few HD channels (thankfully a decent bit of the TV I watch [Bones, House, Persons Unknown at present] is on stations I can get in HD -- the rest is on Cartoon Network or Comedy Central). BTW, the PS3 despite some claims I've heard to the contrary, is capable of 1080p though most games only support 720p for whatever reason.
Funny part is that basically all of them do, even cheap ones. with/without Ethernet is probably the only real difference between the cables, barring what QC they were put through.
I've said part of that for a long, long time now (as in, back into high school). Anyone who wants a political position should never ever be allowed to hold one. Honestly, working it like jury duty might even be a better choice.
"You should be allowed to do what you want, when you want with your own manifestation and its components."
Nope. Entirely flawed thinking that no legal system in the US actually considers. Too many things that involve you doing something to your own body, or having something done to your body under your consent are illegal.
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10 sex chromosomes? Wow, do they move as a pack or something, or is it a majority rules situation or what?
You could get really lucky and end up +5 Troll. I've only managed +1 Troll myself, I need practice. =p
Hey, don't mock the CueCat. Having a "free" barcode scanner that connected inline with your keyboard had some interesting uses, so long as yuo completely ignored what it was *meant* for.
While audio cards weren't common, you could get near audio-card quality from the internal speaker, so long as your CPU had nothing better to do. There were a couple of old PC games that did voice on the internal speaker, though they paused all game action to do it.
If RIAA and the like were interested in the least with keeping up with reality rather than trying to force the "old ways", the labels would reinvent themselves as primarily a specialized advertising and promotional organization. The problem of course being that that has a lower margin than the current model...
"I need to get somewhere directly across the river from me, and I live within a mile of the closest bridge. Instead, since I should completely avoid the Interstate I'll drive 10 miles up to the next bridge that doesn't involve the interstate, cross and then 10 miles back, oh wait I need to come home too, which turned a 10 minute trip into a 40 mile drive.
That's not too far off from reality around here, mind you.
Nah, the only lifelong punitive impediments are for those whose crimes land them on the sex offender registry, which is frankly far too broadly applied. There are crimes where having someone permanently marked with a scarlet letter isn't entirely unreasonable, and something that has victims, is traumatic and has a high recidivism rate is one thing, "I got drunk and whipped it out to take a piss in a public fountain" is another entirely. Both land you on the list.
Seriously, they need to back down on who gets added to the registry, to limit it to those who actually present a heightened risk of being a threat in the future. Otherwise it loses all meaning.
So, once you've been assigned one of these devices you should simply be banned from highway driving? That could be a problem around here, where we both have narrow/no shoulders in many places (especially when we're not talking about the Interstate) and a lot of places are inaccessible from each other without using the Interstate.
Did I mention that that was literally every crime in the town over the last decade more severe than "teenager spraypaints speed limit sign" or other minor vandalism and nonviolent drug charges?
Now speeding, speeding is our primary moneymaker. But we have a frankly unfair speed limit in town. Coming from the east it goes 55->35->15->35->40 (this is a yellow caution sign while you're still in the 35)->45, all in the span of a single mile. =/
Of course the next town over has a straight flat stretch where the speed limit is different in each direction: 40 westbound, 55 eastbound.
Insurance never heard a word of it, nor did the courts. The town's police officer (singular) tracked down the kid who did it and acted as an arbitrator for sorting out the exact details of how to handle them covering the repairs in exchange for not pressing charges.
Within a week my car was good as new, I came out about a hundred bucks or so ahead (difference between the estimate they paid and the low-ball one, the deal was I get three estimates, they pay median), the kid didn't get drug through the courts.
I know I don't worry about it, although USPS doesn't deliver to my home address, so we're talking UPS and FedEx. I live in a small town where in the past 10 years there have been maybe three crimes more severe than "random juvenile vandalism". One of those was somewhat more severe juvenile vandalism (I was the victim in that case, someone slashed the top of my car [Geo Metro convertible]), and the other two were arguments that got out of hand and became assault. Two of those involved no charges being pressed (lock the drunk of the pair up for a night, get them to apologize once everyone has calmed down and is sober / get arrangements for reparation of damages without involving the court system), the third involved a restraining order (20 yr old girl attacked her stepmother, by the time the police arrived the stepmother had things more or less under control, and by under control I mean the stepmother had a pistol in hand and the girl was sitting quietly in it's sights).
Ahh, sweet sweet formaldehyde. The reason my corpse won't rot when I die -- I come pre-embalmed.
Byrd was more or less guaranteed his seat until his death. I'm actually from WV, and the most typical response when you ask someone's opinion of Byrd is "He was corrupt as all hell, but he'd done too much good for this state not to vote for him." Which might sound like an oxymoron, but it's really not -- he did everything in his power to improve his home state, and on any case where that wasn't a concern, well, then he wasn't so "inflexible". He played the "game" of politics and he played it well.
Hell, it wouldn't surprise me if the whole "filibuster the Civil Rights Act" thing wasn't a bid for a vote in his favor elsewhere from someone who was worried about how they'd look in their respective constituency if they tried to do it.
Whoa, now. Presuming you were referring to me (being the person you directly replied to and all), I only proposed that those were interesting questions.
To what extent and in what ways is a child harmed by "pedophilia" (in quotes so as to include pubescent minors) in which they are honestly a voluntary participant?
^^ I would expect the frequency of "voluntary participants" to become more and more rare as you go younger and younger, but since we're talking "pedophilia" and not restricting ourselves to prepubescents here, I'd hazard that there's a lot of *comparatively* harmless "pedophilia" involving those who are in their teens that isn't reported because some people actually can be discrete when it's necessary.
How much of that harm is due to either reaction of others towards the scenario or treatment for it?
^^ This was a question that had never occurred to me before high school (late ninties), and the realization of exactly how many girls go after guys much older than themselves. One of them got busted with their boyfriend. She was seemingly perfectly normal and well adjusted aside from having a boyfriend a decade older than her right up until they were caught and he was prosecuted. After that she was a mess for a long time and got me thinking -- was it her "horrible victimization" at the hands of a "dangerous sexual predator" that caused her problems, or the reaction to the discovery of such?
Despite creepiness, it does raise an interesting question: To what extent and in what ways is a child harmed by "pedophilia" (in quotes so as to include pubescent minors) in which they are honestly a voluntary participant? How much of that harm is due to either reaction of others towards the scenario or treatment for it?
Maybe that's the cause of all the confusion -- politicians use a similar acronym for the Constitution of the United States -- COTUS -- and misread it as "COITUS" and think that they're *SUPPOSED* to be fucking it!
Diabetic Neuropathy. Look it up. It's entirely possible he had no feeling or almost no feeling in his toes to begin with, before adding drunk to the mix. Not a complication I have to deal with though, at least not yet (I'll get more jumpy about not feeling my feet when I can't discern the texture of the linoleum clearly anymore). I've been pretty lucky so far, my only complication has been swelling that doesn't respond to lasix.
You make it sound like many of us consume large amounts of a failed attempt at an ulcer drug because it tastes sweet. Damned aspartame.
Q: Does it cause a problem if you have a new HDD installed and working and then upgrade to the new FW, or only if you are running the new FW and install a new drive at that point? I've got a 500GB in mine and haven't grabbed the new FW yet, mostly because I haven't gone to the store yet.
Not exactly, although that is what a lot of politics eventually devolve into, unfortunately.
Remember, Democrats are always wrong on every topic because they murder babies, and you don't want to trust a baby murderer, do you? The sad part is that I've heard more or less that specific argument in the recent past.
While it's not "useless" in the broad sense, high-frequency trading *is* useless, unless you think that turning a stock in less than a minute did anything but let the person doing so make some cash at the detriment of the new buyer.
Heh, I got a comparatively cheap vizio HDTV recently with 120Hz and 1080p support (old one died, and Wal-Mart had a sale). Amusingly, 90% of the HD content I consume is in the form of a PS3 game, since Wii doesn't do "real" HD, it just does one of the lesser ones over SD and my cable provider only carries a few HD channels (thankfully a decent bit of the TV I watch [Bones, House, Persons Unknown at present] is on stations I can get in HD -- the rest is on Cartoon Network or Comedy Central). BTW, the PS3 despite some claims I've heard to the contrary, is capable of 1080p though most games only support 720p for whatever reason.
Funny part is that basically all of them do, even cheap ones. with/without Ethernet is probably the only real difference between the cables, barring what QC they were put through.
I've said part of that for a long, long time now (as in, back into high school). Anyone who wants a political position should never ever be allowed to hold one. Honestly, working it like jury duty might even be a better choice.
"You should be allowed to do what you want, when you want with your own manifestation and its components."
Nope. Entirely flawed thinking that no legal system in the US actually considers. Too many things that involve you doing something to your own body, or having something done to your body under your consent are illegal.