Ah, but you'll notice there is the use of a warrant strongly implied in the phrase ""no knock" warrant". They're complaining about having to get a warrant at all.
OneNote is great, except that it needs a computer to run on. A good pen and notebook can be much lighter/cheaper/faster for jotting down a note and will give you great battery life to boot!
I agree though, if you're in front of the same computer all day OneNote is a truly excellent program.
Giving them a gun course isn't going to un-Hollywoodize firearms
No but given: 1 Guns are out there and available to (mostly) everyone and 2 Hollywood is unlikely to start glamorizing gun safety and proper respect for firearms Would you rather have your armed populace be (a) trained or (b) untrained in firearms handling / safety, all else being equal?
If you are being robbed by the time you get a shotgun out of the safe...
As you said yourself, a hunting weapon may not be ideal for self / home defense. That being said: Imagine we made roads safer by putting huge fences around them all, rather than teaching people that cars drive on roads and how to cross the road safely. Imagine you had to go to the pharmacist for every pill you take, so you don't overdo it. Imagine you needed an escort for a daytime walk in the woods. In all these cases, a little education goes a long way. Think of a loaded firearm like a plugged in ripsaw, and educate your household to treat it as a potentially dangerous tool. Really, that's exactly what it is. Today I saw a commercial where some kids were playing hide and seek, the sister hides in a closet and finds a gun. Instead of putting it back or telling her parents what she found, she starts playing with it like it was a toy. After looking down the barrel, sticking her fingers in it and pretending to shoot it, she (presumably) shoots her brother at the end of the clip. While she's playing with a loaded frickin' gun there's text on the screen about how bad guns are and what a tragedy they represent. I wanted to ask the video "Where's the friggin' parents? WTF are they thinking keeping a loaded gun where a kid can get to it without teaching them what is and is not appropriate to do with it? How is this the fault of the gun that the parents were horrendously irresponsible?" Ok, done with my rant.
As a teenager driving a rusted, orange longbed truck with no muffler, I managed to accrue enough points to get my license suspended for six months. Two days before that was up I got pulled over for not using my turn signal, and that time I got a year (and more fines, of course). At no point did anyone suggest there would be any leeway for things like getting to my job or college, and there was in fact not. Maybe I chose the wrong state to grow up in?
I've seen trials of this here in Vegas. They had these touchscreen kiosks resembling a video game cabinet, but without the fun, up in front of the order taking counter. I never saw anyone that preferred using one over just talking to a person, myself included. I spend all day banging on a keyboard, I have NO interest in interacting with one for my lunch! BTW, I haven't seen one in months. OTOH, some of the newer soda fountain dispensers have a touchscreen interface that's just great. My theory is that there's a benefit to being able to precisely tailor your drink while there is no benefit (to the customer) in tapping on a screen to order, it's actually more work. Maybe if there was a discount for kiosk users it could catch on, but that would involve passing savings to the customer and we know how that works out.
LOL! In what way have I "imposed" my ideas on anyone? Near as I can tell, I've expressed my personal opinion that education is preferable to unilaterally imposed ignorance. I do feel strongly about this and if you don't like that, it's not my problem or concern. Your response above is a clear straw man followed by an inaccurate observation of the straw man you created. Seems a bit sorry to me really, so I think I'm done with this thread.
There are many opinions and many products out there, and very many of them could be classified as unwise to partake of because there is much better to be had. Championing less knowledge for people about to make potentially life altering decisions is a viewpoint that makes no sense to me. Be that as it may, as you say there's a place for just about everyone. I wish only the best for you, your children, and your many grandchildren.
Do you really think ignorance is preferable to education when it comes to "kids" learning (and they will, one way or another) about sex? How can we expect young people to make wise choices regarding sex when we hide it from them, depriving them of the information they'll need to make a intelligent, informed decisions when the time comes? For the kids' sake, teach them reality before the world smacks them in the face with it!
Ah, but you're talking about movies. I sincerely want to listen to my Disturbed and later Metallica at a high volume for more than a song or two. Any more than 10 minutes tops and it's like my ears start hurting 'cause the music degenerates into noise. Good phrase I just ran across to describe this is "fatiguing distortion". Put on the old stuff that that doesn't happen. In the TV world, I think you want to turn on TruVolume, Dynamic volume or Dolby volume. If you have them, these features on your TV will even out the sound in the way you describe.
The lack of dynamic range in "remastered" music was the first thing I thought of. Never mind style, 80s music just sounds better. If there was a place to get current FLAC format music that wasn't ruined as demonstrated by the parent above, I'd be happy to pay a bit more for it. Anyone know of such a thing?
Why have a democracy and Congress and courts if any yokel on the jury can say "Meh, I don't like it" and acquit?
The system is organized so that you are judged by a jury of your peers who are representative of the views / opinions local to your region. While the "yokel" problem you referenced above has in fact occurred, the original idea is that the people will have the final say about weather or not they will suffer an unjust law to be executed. BTW, it takes a whole jury of yokels to agree to get an acquittal. The most one can do is a hung jury. P.S. Yes, I know it doesn't always work this way. Judges have been fighting jury nullification for a very long time. That doesn't make them right.
I know I'm probably gonna get seriously hammered for this, but what more could we ask for?
Do we want them to "take it back" and apologize, with a promise never to do something like that again?
Seriously, the prosecutors bit off way more than they could chew here. Maybe they realized failure would be bad for their careers and success would have huge negative ramifications on the Internet (at least in the US) so they decided the prudent course of action was an advance to the rear...
No, almost all table salt is recently evaporated sea water.
You may find this link helpful. Don't even bother reading if you want, just look at the pictures and tell me if that salt got there "recently". Maybe you're really long lived and measure time on a geological scale?
You bring up a good point. There are fairly clearly defined roles players assume in a party, and if someone doesn't know what they're doing it will ruin the experience for the rest of the group. Leveling up your character teaches you exactly how to play that class / type. If you buy your way to the top, you still may have no idea what you're doing when the rest of your party is depending on you to pull your weight.
I was in the same boat, and carry my iPad with me daily. First, get a good case and never take it out. My old iPad I (kids use / abuse daily) has one of these which I used to use but found a bit bulky. Now I use this. I've dropped it numerous times and come away unscathed. I think the trick is to make sure the corners are well protected, so DON'T use that pretty, slim one Apple makes!
Goodreader with its file sync and annotation capabilities goes a long way towards making up for the stock viewer you get with IOS.
Be aware an iPad in no way will substitute for a laptop. Any serious research / content generation is right out of the realm of possibility. Want to edit a text file on a network share? I can do it in six easy steps but only with third party software (iFile) on my jailbroken iPad. It's great for information retrieval and lightweight email but if you're looking at getting one device for school, go with the laptop.
I've noticed a huge increase in battery life by keeping my paperwhite in airplane mode. Use Calibre, to copy over books via USB and you don't even need to worry about what directory to put them in.
While I think your contention that "Very rarely do students actually learn critical thinking skills" in public schools has legs, I'm not sure I would lay that entirely at the doorstep of the science classes / teachers. US school seems to consist largely of the process of learning facts to be regurgitated on a test, then learning more facts before being tested again. There's just not much room for critical thinking in the curriculum. What makes this scary is if someone slips mysticism (bad information) in with the facts we end up teaching lies to our children.
If the goal is to increase public safety, then yes, police should want people to drive the speed limit and reward the good citizens that warn other drivers of a speed trap. However, if the real goal is revenue generation, then the police would be upset by this behavior.
Please note that this article is about police issuing tickets to motorists who warn oncoming cars about speed traps. I'll let you draw your own conclusion.
Kicking myself for posting earlier. Please give this guy an insightful!
Think of it not as "enabling drunk driving" but more as helping enable people's right to be "secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures". Many tools can be misused (hammer, car, chef's knife) and I think your takeaway regarding that particular tool is telling. As a non-drinker I am disgusted by the idea I can be stopped for no reason so some cop can stick his head in my car and ask me questions while looking for anything "suspicious".
Nope! Not a clue! However, her grandson / tech (called over because the computer "stopped working") may well be inclined to bitch in a public forum about it. Now do they lambast granny for being the target of a social engineering attack (and who is possibly a paying customer) or do they complain about how evil MS is for halting security updates on a really, really old OS?
I don't see this as having anything to do with hapless end users, techs, or Windows XP. This is about MS being trapped between two bad alternatives. Kill support and leave some users hanging or continue support at $0 profit. I think they need to do this or risk reinforcing their image as the maker of an insecure OS.
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Ah, but you'll notice there is the use of a warrant strongly implied in the phrase ""no knock" warrant".
They're complaining about having to get a warrant at all.
OneNote is great, except that it needs a computer to run on. A good pen and notebook can be much lighter/cheaper/faster for jotting down a note and will give you great battery life to boot!
I agree though, if you're in front of the same computer all day OneNote is a truly excellent program.
Spiral bound is nice as it lays open and flat, but the spiral part doesn't weather well. For the last couple years I've been using a Whitelines squared hardcover notebook and a Lamy fountain pen/a. If you're gonna be using it for the next year or so, you might as well get decent stuff.
Giving them a gun course isn't going to un-Hollywoodize firearms
No but given:
1 Guns are out there and available to (mostly) everyone and
2 Hollywood is unlikely to start glamorizing gun safety and proper respect for firearms
Would you rather have your armed populace be (a) trained or (b) untrained in firearms handling / safety, all else being equal?
Nice save!
If you are being robbed by the time you get a shotgun out of the safe...
As you said yourself, a hunting weapon may not be ideal for self / home defense. That being said:
Imagine we made roads safer by putting huge fences around them all, rather than teaching people that cars drive on roads and how to cross the road safely.
Imagine you had to go to the pharmacist for every pill you take, so you don't overdo it.
Imagine you needed an escort for a daytime walk in the woods.
In all these cases, a little education goes a long way. Think of a loaded firearm like a plugged in ripsaw, and educate your household to treat it as a potentially dangerous tool. Really, that's exactly what it is.
Today I saw a commercial where some kids were playing hide and seek, the sister hides in a closet and finds a gun. Instead of putting it back or telling her parents what she found, she starts playing with it like it was a toy. After looking down the barrel, sticking her fingers in it and pretending to shoot it, she (presumably) shoots her brother at the end of the clip. While she's playing with a loaded frickin' gun there's text on the screen about how bad guns are and what a tragedy they represent. I wanted to ask the video "Where's the friggin' parents? WTF are they thinking keeping a loaded gun where a kid can get to it without teaching them what is and is not appropriate to do with it? How is this the fault of the gun that the parents were horrendously irresponsible?"
Ok, done with my rant.
I know how to make beer.
...And we have a winner folks!
As a teenager driving a rusted, orange longbed truck with no muffler, I managed to accrue enough points to get my license suspended for six months. Two days before that was up I got pulled over for not using my turn signal, and that time I got a year (and more fines, of course). At no point did anyone suggest there would be any leeway for things like getting to my job or college, and there was in fact not. Maybe I chose the wrong state to grow up in?
I've seen trials of this here in Vegas. They had these touchscreen kiosks resembling a video game cabinet, but without the fun, up in front of the order taking counter. I never saw anyone that preferred using one over just talking to a person, myself included.
I spend all day banging on a keyboard, I have NO interest in interacting with one for my lunch!
BTW, I haven't seen one in months.
OTOH, some of the newer soda fountain dispensers have a touchscreen interface that's just great. My theory is that there's a benefit to being able to precisely tailor your drink while there is no benefit (to the customer) in tapping on a screen to order, it's actually more work. Maybe if there was a discount for kiosk users it could catch on, but that would involve passing savings to the customer and we know how that works out.
LOL! In what way have I "imposed" my ideas on anyone? Near as I can tell, I've expressed my personal opinion that education is preferable to unilaterally imposed ignorance. I do feel strongly about this and if you don't like that, it's not my problem or concern. Your response above is a clear straw man followed by an inaccurate observation of the straw man you created. Seems a bit sorry to me really, so I think I'm done with this thread.
There are many opinions and many products out there, and very many of them could be classified as unwise to partake of because there is much better to be had. Championing less knowledge for people about to make potentially life altering decisions is a viewpoint that makes no sense to me. Be that as it may, as you say there's a place for just about everyone. I wish only the best for you, your children, and your many grandchildren.
Do you really think ignorance is preferable to education when it comes to "kids" learning (and they will, one way or another) about sex?
How can we expect young people to make wise choices regarding sex when we hide it from them, depriving them of the information they'll need to make a intelligent, informed decisions when the time comes? For the kids' sake, teach them reality before the world smacks them in the face with it!
the bible also sez get ur drinking water _upstream_ from ur latrine
transitioning to a final line of:
*like the response of an undamped resonant system to a step function: we're still oscillating...
I have to ask, did you switch personalities mid-post?
Ah, but you're talking about movies. I sincerely want to listen to my Disturbed and later Metallica at a high volume for more than a song or two. Any more than 10 minutes tops and it's like my ears start hurting 'cause the music degenerates into noise. Good phrase I just ran across to describe this is "fatiguing distortion". Put on the old stuff that that doesn't happen.
In the TV world, I think you want to turn on TruVolume, Dynamic volume or Dolby volume. If you have them, these features on your TV will even out the sound in the way you describe.
Yup.
The Loudness Wars rendered most of this moot. :(
The lack of dynamic range in "remastered" music was the first thing I thought of. Never mind style, 80s music just sounds better. If there was a place to get current FLAC format music that wasn't ruined as demonstrated by the parent above, I'd be happy to pay a bit more for it. Anyone know of such a thing?
Why have a democracy and Congress and courts if any yokel on the jury can say "Meh, I don't like it" and acquit?
The system is organized so that you are judged by a jury of your peers who are representative of the views / opinions local to your region. While the "yokel" problem you referenced above has in fact occurred, the original idea is that the people will have the final say about weather or not they will suffer an unjust law to be executed.
BTW, it takes a whole jury of yokels to agree to get an acquittal. The most one can do is a hung jury.
P.S. Yes, I know it doesn't always work this way. Judges have been fighting jury nullification for a very long time. That doesn't make them right.
I know I'm probably gonna get seriously hammered for this, but what more could we ask for?
Do we want them to "take it back" and apologize, with a promise never to do something like that again?
Seriously, the prosecutors bit off way more than they could chew here. Maybe they realized failure would be bad for their careers and success would have huge negative ramifications on the Internet (at least in the US) so they decided the prudent course of action was an advance to the rear...
No, almost all table salt is recently evaporated sea water.
You may find this link helpful. Don't even bother reading if you want, just look at the pictures and tell me if that salt got there "recently".
Maybe you're really long lived and measure time on a geological scale?
You bring up a good point. There are fairly clearly defined roles players assume in a party, and if someone doesn't know what they're doing it will ruin the experience for the rest of the group. Leveling up your character teaches you exactly how to play that class / type. If you buy your way to the top, you still may have no idea what you're doing when the rest of your party is depending on you to pull your weight.
I was in the same boat, and carry my iPad with me daily. First, get a good case and never take it out. My old iPad I (kids use / abuse daily) has one of these which I used to use but found a bit bulky. Now I use this. I've dropped it numerous times and come away unscathed. I think the trick is to make sure the corners are well protected, so DON'T use that pretty, slim one Apple makes!
Goodreader with its file sync and annotation capabilities goes a long way towards making up for the stock viewer you get with IOS.
Be aware an iPad in no way will substitute for a laptop. Any serious research / content generation is right out of the realm of possibility. Want to edit a text file on a network share? I can do it in six easy steps but only with third party software (iFile) on my jailbroken iPad. It's great for information retrieval and lightweight email but if you're looking at getting one device for school, go with the laptop.
I've noticed a huge increase in battery life by keeping my paperwhite in airplane mode. Use Calibre, to copy over books via USB and you don't even need to worry about what directory to put them in.
While I think your contention that "Very rarely do students actually learn critical thinking skills" in public schools has legs, I'm not sure I would lay that entirely at the doorstep of the science classes / teachers. US school seems to consist largely of the process of learning facts to be regurgitated on a test, then learning more facts before being tested again. There's just not much room for critical thinking in the curriculum.
What makes this scary is if someone slips mysticism (bad information) in with the facts we end up teaching lies to our children.
If the goal is to increase public safety, then yes, police should want people to drive the speed limit and reward the good citizens that warn other drivers of a speed trap. However, if the real goal is revenue generation, then the police would be upset by this behavior. Please note that this article is about police issuing tickets to motorists who warn oncoming cars about speed traps. I'll let you draw your own conclusion.
Kicking myself for posting earlier. Please give this guy an insightful!
Think of it not as "enabling drunk driving" but more as helping enable people's right to be "secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures". Many tools can be misused (hammer, car, chef's knife) and I think your takeaway regarding that particular tool is telling. As a non-drinker I am disgusted by the idea I can be stopped for no reason so some cop can stick his head in my car and ask me questions while looking for anything "suspicious".
Nope! Not a clue! However, her grandson / tech (called over because the computer "stopped working") may well be inclined to bitch in a public forum about it. Now do they lambast granny for being the target of a social engineering attack (and who is possibly a paying customer) or do they complain about how evil MS is for halting security updates on a really, really old OS?
I don't see this as having anything to do with hapless end users, techs, or Windows XP. This is about MS being trapped between two bad alternatives. Kill support and leave some users hanging or continue support at $0 profit. I think they need to do this or risk reinforcing their image as the maker of an insecure OS.