Excellent point! If the sticker were placed on the outer spine (wrapping a bit to the front / back covers) you wouldn't really need to even touch the book to determine if it was yours. Bonus points if you make it yellow or some easily visible color.
When I was a kid I got one of these. It worked very well to convey information without being overly intrusive. I've still got it somewhere but I don't think it would do my Kindle screen any favors...
"Though liberals do a great deal of talking about hearing..."
I know this is considered unusual behavior, but scroll to the end of TFA and look at the list of signatories.
This isn't really a "liberal" thing, it's a feminist thing.
In any case, this is a private college, not the government, so the constitutional protection against government limits on speech does not apply.
Are you kidding me? Did you read the article?!?! This is not about a "private college" and for that argument to have any traction whatsoever the college can't accept government money. Now from TFA:
"But though the Supreme Court cited this Tinker language in the college context, in Healy v. James (1972), the court in Healy made clear that
[T]he precedents of this Court leave no room for the view that, because of the acknowledged need for order, First Amendment protections should apply with less force on college campuses than in the community at large."
so characterizing this as "shooting 12-year old kids for holding a toy gun" is wrong
I (don't really) hate to break it to you, but factually, the cop killed a 12 year old kid who was holding a toy gun. Nobody questions the validity of those facts. If you want to debate the efficacy / wisdom / morality of shooting someone before you know what's going on, I'm up for that.
This is an excellent reason to have a reader specific piece of hardware. I use a first gen. paperwhite. Put aside for the moment that it's smaller, lighter and has a backlight that goes dimmer than most tablets making it better hardware for holding up in the dark for long periods. When I'm reading I DON'T WANT to be notified of the latest spam I just got. I don't need the option of browsing some web site and I certainly don't want to watch a movie or listen to music.
I want to read a book. This is a purpose specific device that is excellent at its job. I own a couple iPads, iPhone 6+ and a Surface. If my paperwhite died this moment I'd go buy another one without hesitation because to me there is no overlap in functionality between my book reader and those other devices.
When you're in the store and looking at that black and white e-ink screen and comparing it to the full color display of a standard tablet, there is only one winner. Add in that your e-ink reader only displays words vs. everything a tablet does and any reasonable person would decide a full tablet is a much better way to go. Should you get the chance, borrow a backlit e-ink reader and try it for one night. You'll find the reader is a completely different device than the tablet and those weaknesses are actually strengths.
... the plates seemed to be little more than a prop to provide, perhaps, some form of inspiration. In fact, Joseph Smith received his "translation" through a seer stone which he placed in his hat. He used that same stone to search for buried treasure, something it did not find very well.
Not being too familiar with that particular flavor of religion, I can't tell if you're making up silly stuff based on what they believe or if they really think a magic rock was central to the creation of their religious texts. Really, Douglas Adams came up with more reasonable explanations for stuff than this...
Because pushing a single dedicated physical button is, surprisingly, much easier than finding / pulling out your phone, opening an app and selecting an item from a list. It provides no interruption to the flow of your activity. When I'm doing heavy cooking, I use a voice recorder (hardware, not app on my phone) to record ideas, tasks and things to put on the shopping list. It makes a huge difference in time and attention compared to taking even a tiny break from my current task. If it queued up user designated items on a list these things would be awesome.
This seems to be something that is to be used for the ranges you would typically walk if you weren't so lazy.
Here in Vegas it's over 100F, and the only thing making me feel better about this is that Houston's got it worse! You are OK to be out in that kind of temperature, but after a vigorous one block walk I guarantee you'll be drenched in sweat and regretting your decision to walk. You know when you open your oven and that hot wave hits you? That's what riding a scooter / motorcycle here is like. Of course, there's always the car with AC blasting option. Don't be so quick to denigrate a potential low cost, environmentally friendly option. Some people's situations are different from yours.
Hey! Meant no disrespect, was simply trying to provide helpful suggestions from my personal experience. Note that laying the bike down towards the sensor only works if your bike is ferrous, not aluminum or carbon fiber. That being said, there's no fixing a sensor that just doesn't work well. You might want to keep an ear out for an Indiana law like the one where I live, letting scooters / cycles cross against the red legally.
First, if you have any ferrous content in your bike (or in your backpack / whatever) lower it down to the sensor. Your CroMo frame held away from the sensor by 700c aluminum wheels can probably trigger it, but not from any distance. Go over and hit the "walk" button. It can't hurt anything and the switch may even be hooked up! If you were to dismount, you suddenly become a pedestrian walking a bike. Pedestrians have different rules for negotiating intersections. Use your common sense and you'll usually be fine.
You could call the police and lodge a complaint...
Where do you live that you have any expectation this would be a constructive course of action? Have you ever called the police for a non-emergency issue? Let's say they immediately show up (hold your breath). If the drone's there what will they do about it? Tase it? Hit it with pepper spray? Verbally order it to stop looking around your back yard? If it's gone, they'll be even LESS effective. Yeah, that hand written incident report will sure stop the drone operator next time. This guy sent a very clear message to the drone operator about weather watching his daughters in his backyard via proxy was OK. He solved the problem quickly, cleanly, and without endangering anyone.
As a member of the public utilizing a public park, he's already GOT a "platform". He's entitled to use it as that's what the word public means. What we're talking about here is the local government actively preventing a member of the public from using a public facility to exercise his free speech rights. Regardless of your opinion of his artistic talents* how can you possibly (I could be wrong) seem to think active censorship by the local government is OK here? Are there other public venues you'd like to see cracked down on or is it just people you don't care for that should be censored?
The Constitution doesn't promise to provide a platform...
Red herring. You are correct but you'll note nobody was asking the government to "provide a platform". The permit was members of the public calling dibs on using a public place for this show. When someone is exercising their right to free speech in a public place and they are unambiguously stopped by armed government representatives for no clear reason, some people would consider this censorship.
But there is no particular right to teleprescence/teleconferencing or broadcasting
Nitpicking. Ever hear of free speech zones? You're "allowed" to exercise your free speech as many miles away from the venue in question as they feel like putting you. In this case they couldn't move him elsewhere so they forcibly turned him off. It equates to exactly the same thing.
Properly implemented advertising is what makes the internet "free". As with pretty much anything it can be abused or taken too far, but when you visit a page and read the content, that banner ad / sidebar ad(s) you ignore automatically are probably a large part of how that site stays up. At some point someone had to pay (money or time) to make that site, put it on a server and send those bits over the internet.
Weren't we talking about interstitial app offers though? We seem to have gotten a bit off course.
But hey, thanks for telling us the NSA is spying on some bad Americans. And, by the way everybody spies on everybody. Russians on us. We on the Russians. China on us.
"bad Americans". Like all the ones that use electronic communications, you mean those bad Americans? Does the fact that China and Russia do something unjust make it OK for America to do that thing to its own citizens? What if it was ruled illegal in federal court. Would that affect your viewpoint? I'm not sure you've really thought this through...
Ok:
- Car. In parking lot. Sounds pretty mundane so far. Pretty much they're parked or on the road most of the time.
- Unattended. This is what you do after parking your car. You leave the car unattended.
- Gasoline smell. Near gas powered car in parking lot which may contain other gas powered cars. Occam's razor.
Pressure cooker inside. Are we that far gone we need to fear kitchen cookware? What about a cast iron skillet? Knife set? If your "further action" involves anything more than cooking tips (a pressure cooker is a great cooking tool) then you're jumping at shadows.
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Excellent point! If the sticker were placed on the outer spine (wrapping a bit to the front / back covers) you wouldn't really need to even touch the book to determine if it was yours. Bonus points if you make it yellow or some easily visible color.
Where is the 5-1/4" floppy drive on your laptop?
It's right underneath the 8 1/2" floppy drive, kid. Get off my lawn!
When I was a kid I got one of these. It worked very well to convey information without being overly intrusive. I've still got it somewhere but I don't think it would do my Kindle screen any favors...
"Though liberals do a great deal of talking about hearing..."
I know this is considered unusual behavior, but scroll to the end of TFA and look at the list of signatories. This isn't really a "liberal" thing, it's a feminist thing.
In any case, this is a private college, not the government, so the constitutional protection against government limits on speech does not apply.
Are you kidding me? Did you read the article?!?! This is not about a "private college" and for that argument to have any traction whatsoever the college can't accept government money. Now from TFA:
"But though the Supreme Court cited this Tinker language in the college context, in Healy v. James (1972), the court in Healy made clear that [T]he precedents of this Court leave no room for the view that, because of the acknowledged need for order, First Amendment protections should apply with less force on college campuses than in the community at large."
so characterizing this as "shooting 12-year old kids for holding a toy gun" is wrong
I (don't really) hate to break it to you, but factually, the cop killed a 12 year old kid who was holding a toy gun. Nobody questions the validity of those facts. If you want to debate the efficacy / wisdom / morality of shooting someone before you know what's going on, I'm up for that.
How do you gain and keep the respect of a group of people...
They had it. Through their own actions they lost it. Now they have a problem.
Erm, ok you win?
since a tablet can do much more
This is an excellent reason to have a reader specific piece of hardware. I use a first gen. paperwhite. Put aside for the moment that it's smaller, lighter and has a backlight that goes dimmer than most tablets making it better hardware for holding up in the dark for long periods. When I'm reading I DON'T WANT to be notified of the latest spam I just got. I don't need the option of browsing some web site and I certainly don't want to watch a movie or listen to music.
I want to read a book. This is a purpose specific device that is excellent at its job. I own a couple iPads, iPhone 6+ and a Surface. If my paperwhite died this moment I'd go buy another one without hesitation because to me there is no overlap in functionality between my book reader and those other devices.
When you're in the store and looking at that black and white e-ink screen and comparing it to the full color display of a standard tablet, there is only one winner. Add in that your e-ink reader only displays words vs. everything a tablet does and any reasonable person would decide a full tablet is a much better way to go. Should you get the chance, borrow a backlit e-ink reader and try it for one night. You'll find the reader is a completely different device than the tablet and those weaknesses are actually strengths.
I'm not a moderator here (obviously, since I'm posting), but speaking for myself, I want you to remember what happened on 9/11, and forget what most of the talking heads with a barrow to push have said about it.
Facts, not spin.
That right there is a link well worth following. Wish I had mod points atm.
... the plates seemed to be little more than a prop to provide, perhaps, some form of inspiration. In fact, Joseph Smith received his "translation" through a seer stone which he placed in his hat. He used that same stone to search for buried treasure, something it did not find very well.
Not being too familiar with that particular flavor of religion, I can't tell if you're making up silly stuff based on what they believe or if they really think a magic rock was central to the creation of their religious texts. Really, Douglas Adams came up with more reasonable explanations for stuff than this...
Because pushing a single dedicated physical button is, surprisingly, much easier than finding / pulling out your phone, opening an app and selecting an item from a list. It provides no interruption to the flow of your activity. When I'm doing heavy cooking, I use a voice recorder (hardware, not app on my phone) to record ideas, tasks and things to put on the shopping list. It makes a huge difference in time and attention compared to taking even a tiny break from my current task. If it queued up user designated items on a list these things would be awesome.
This seems to be something that is to be used for the ranges you would typically walk if you weren't so lazy.
Here in Vegas it's over 100F, and the only thing making me feel better about this is that Houston's got it worse! You are OK to be out in that kind of temperature, but after a vigorous one block walk I guarantee you'll be drenched in sweat and regretting your decision to walk. You know when you open your oven and that hot wave hits you? That's what riding a scooter / motorcycle here is like. Of course, there's always the car with AC blasting option. Don't be so quick to denigrate a potential low cost, environmentally friendly option. Some people's situations are different from yours.
Hey!
Meant no disrespect, was simply trying to provide helpful suggestions from my personal experience. Note that laying the bike down towards the sensor only works if your bike is ferrous, not aluminum or carbon fiber. That being said, there's no fixing a sensor that just doesn't work well. You might want to keep an ear out for an Indiana law like the one where I live, letting scooters / cycles cross against the red legally.
First, if you have any ferrous content in your bike (or in your backpack / whatever) lower it down to the sensor. Your CroMo frame held away from the sensor by 700c aluminum wheels can probably trigger it, but not from any distance.
Go over and hit the "walk" button. It can't hurt anything and the switch may even be hooked up!
If you were to dismount, you suddenly become a pedestrian walking a bike. Pedestrians have different rules for negotiating intersections.
Use your common sense and you'll usually be fine.
Posting to undo bad mod. Was aiming at insightful. It's hard to argue with the logic of everyday physics...
You could call the police and lodge a complaint...
Where do you live that you have any expectation this would be a constructive course of action? Have you ever called the police for a non-emergency issue? Let's say they immediately show up (hold your breath). If the drone's there what will they do about it? Tase it? Hit it with pepper spray? Verbally order it to stop looking around your back yard? If it's gone, they'll be even LESS effective. Yeah, that hand written incident report will sure stop the drone operator next time. This guy sent a very clear message to the drone operator about weather watching his daughters in his backyard via proxy was OK. He solved the problem quickly, cleanly, and without endangering anyone.
As a member of the public utilizing a public park, he's already GOT a "platform". He's entitled to use it as that's what the word public means. What we're talking about here is the local government actively preventing a member of the public from using a public facility to exercise his free speech rights. Regardless of your opinion of his artistic talents* how can you possibly (I could be wrong) seem to think active censorship by the local government is OK here? Are there other public venues you'd like to see cracked down on or is it just people you don't care for that should be censored?
*"(c)rapper". I see what you did there.
The Constitution doesn't promise to provide a platform...
Red herring. You are correct but you'll note nobody was asking the government to "provide a platform". The permit was members of the public calling dibs on using a public place for this show. When someone is exercising their right to free speech in a public place and they are unambiguously stopped by armed government representatives for no clear reason, some people would consider this censorship.
But there is no particular right to teleprescence/teleconferencing or broadcasting
Nitpicking. Ever hear of free speech zones? You're "allowed" to exercise your free speech as many miles away from the venue in question as they feel like putting you. In this case they couldn't move him elsewhere so they forcibly turned him off. It equates to exactly the same thing.
advertising is theft.
Properly implemented advertising is what makes the internet "free". As with pretty much anything it can be abused or taken too far, but when you visit a page and read the content, that banner ad / sidebar ad(s) you ignore automatically are probably a large part of how that site stays up. At some point someone had to pay (money or time) to make that site, put it on a server and send those bits over the internet.
Weren't we talking about interstitial app offers though? We seem to have gotten a bit off course.
Worst. Video. Game. Ever!
http://xkcd.com/806/
But hey, thanks for telling us the NSA is spying on some bad Americans. And, by the way everybody spies on everybody. Russians on us. We on the Russians. China on us.
"bad Americans". Like all the ones that use electronic communications, you mean those bad Americans?
Does the fact that China and Russia do something unjust make it OK for America to do that thing to its own citizens?
What if it was ruled illegal in federal court. Would that affect your viewpoint?
I'm not sure you've really thought this through...
Ok:
- Car. In parking lot. Sounds pretty mundane so far. Pretty much they're parked or on the road most of the time.
- Unattended. This is what you do after parking your car. You leave the car unattended.
- Gasoline smell. Near gas powered car in parking lot which may contain other gas powered cars. Occam's razor.
Pressure cooker inside. Are we that far gone we need to fear kitchen cookware? What about a cast iron skillet? Knife set? If your "further action" involves anything more than cooking tips (a pressure cooker is a great cooking tool) then you're jumping at shadows.