The problem is that the evidence for these claims is part of an investigation that I became involved in (on the police side to clarify) and as such is not releasable by myself. Though some hardcore research and public records requests in your own area will probably yield the same information.
The way the particular case I'm talking about started was a wife coming in with a CD saying "there are pictures on here that are of children doing explicit things, this belongs to my husband and I'm concerned about my own children." or something to that effect. Which led to the seizure of his equipment and discovery of very very distasteful information.
The police. It seems relatively obvious that it was the municipal IT department or the software company that wrote the dispatch system, which is at fault here. But let's all jump on the Police officers' cause that's who gets blamed for everything. Damn Cops! Let's not consider that they probably were dispatched to the address and had no choice but to go. If police officers could just not go to a dispatched call because they thought it might be erroneous based on the address and there was a real emergency there then they would have criminal culpability.
Problem is that most issues of this nature just beg to escalate. Today's "oops" is tomorrow's "well I'll just look at it one more time" and in 20 years or so it's "Why not take pictures of my kids masturbating?" Some people are just not wired right and deviant behaviors escalate over time. Based on firsthand knowledge I can say that it is very likely that someone stumbling across a few CP photos on a computer could easily lead to that computer being found to contain evidence of the owner producing CP.
How to get modded up:
Using "Americans" in a way that suggests you are not one and much smarter than all who are. "Americans must always sue everyone..."? I mean seriously if that's the kind of horrid generalization that passes for "insightful" around here...
Seems like Europeans must always start world wars and wait until us stupid Americans come and fix it for them.
Seems like Asians must always force everyone to work in sweat shops.
Seems like Australians must always talk about putting shrimp on the barbie.
etc...
I think AC was trying to point out the congressional oversight of appointments to these posts. The current congress has a documented history of making it VERY hard to appoint anyone, I'm not agreeing that it's all their fault but I don't think AC's point is totally without merit.
Just have a look at the names of all the executives of Fannie and Freddie, you'll come to the curious conclusion that those same names all had (D) next to them and were on lists of congressmen and senators who were well "persuaded" towards the causes of both Fannie and Freddie.
I would only change one thing in your plan. (it may not really be a change depending on interpretation) I would have the proceeds go to paying down the national debt. I'm all for less taxes and credits to taxpayers, but I can't in good conscience watch the government continue to mortgage the future to finance the present. Some fat needs to be cut and some loans need to be paid off.
EULA for firefox -- annoying one time occurrence.
I don't like clicking "I Agree", too much of a hassle for a free OS
Hmm, what's less of a hassle than clicking "I agree" once per install?...
...thinking... I KNOW, uninstalling, downloading a package, modifying package to not require me to click "I agree" once, and recompiling application! WAY EASIER! So glad I didn't click "I agree"
But can someone who is not old enough to have even TAKEN physics be expected to observe the laws of said "physics". I think this is why, Before I learned physics I could violate the conservation of mass and energy all I wanted, then stupid me, I learned that I was "breaking the law" and had to stop.
Very good points but I still believe a diesel over electric vehicle where the diesel engine ran continuously would be an huge improvement in efficiency over the current gasoline hybrids in certain (quite common) situations. For example a vehicle driven mostly on the highway with little stop and go would gain immensely from the diesel over electric concept. If when you drive, though you spend more time stopped than moving a gasoline hybrid would probably be the way to go due to all of the things you bring up.
I see a lot of insight in most of your comment, but a few of your points are moot in this particular discussion, one is I'm not talking about EPA rated fuel economy I'm talking about how far I drive on a gallon of fuel. Second, the vehicle I'm referring to is heavier than a prius and heavier than a civic hybrid. Third, they don't put ethanol into diesel so that has no effect on the vehicles I'm proposing, even if it did I'm still talking about real world results and not manufacturer propaganda from two different eras.
Lastly, this vehicle is higher off of the ground and taller than a prius/civic hybrid, and shaped roughly like a brick.
Thanks for your thoughtful response and I think we both are trying to highlight the same points, namely that so-called design has taken the front seat while efficiency and economy have been thrown out of the window.
I do believe however that there is a good reason that almost all super-heavy vehicles have used a diesel over electric principle (until nuclear came along), namely that this is the most efficient method of propelling weight and the payoffs are huge in a huge vehicle. The Navy has been using "hybrids" forever and I think emulating that technology with small, high-torque (read good for generating electricity) diesel engines would be the way to go. Diesel engine efficiency reaches near unbelievable levels if the engine is running right in it's powerband this doesn't work very well in a regular engine-transmission setup but works extremely well in a engine-generator-electric drive setup. If I drive with the goal of ultimate efficiency (very slow acceleration, as little braking as possible, trying to keep the engine RPM constantly in powerband) with a diesel I experience much bigger gains in fuel economy than doing the same thing with a gasoline engine. So imagine if a small diesel engine was always supplying energy in the most efficient way possible!
I've heard (this is third party info so who knows how to trust it) about home-built diesel-electric hybrids on typically unefficient vehicles (a 1979 chevy 1/2 ton 4X4) getting around 50 mpg. So why aren't the car companies doing it? Couple this with the fact that a diesel engine in a typical vehicle regularly will run 500,000 miles or more without needing a rebuild and you have a very attractive vehicle.
On a side note, why are we still happy with anything less than 50 mpg? I have a car from the 80's that gets that (42-45) and it's a pickup truck that weighs more than a prius/civic/whatever hybrid little car.
Why aren't we building hybrids with diesel engines? Do the car companies want us to believe that 50 MPG is some mythical cap on efficiency?
Mobile phones...TV's...smart cars...fridges pretty much any other home electronic appliance with an OS. If it's OK for LG/TiVo/Motorola/anyone else to limit the hardware you can use their OS on why isn't it ok for Apple? Yes I understand that it's easier to copy OS X than it is to copy the OS from your Razr but what's the legal difference? I really want to know. Apple can claim that they are selling appliances and that OS X discs are simply upgrades to their appliances. Someone with some legal expertise please enlighten me.
AAh but the kernel is open source, and Apple has already given permission to modify the kernel to run on non-Apple hardware. And users are allowed to modify their own kernels and run the rest of OS X on top of them. This is a very tricky issue
Full version in the sense that you can (physically possible to) install on a computer with no operating system currently installed.
Upgrade version in the sense that you can't (according to EULA) install it on a computer that didn't at some time in the past have some version of Mac OS or OS X on it.
Also of note is that OS X is cheaper than it would be if it weren't for the hardware prices that subsidize it.
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The problem is that the evidence for these claims is part of an investigation that I became involved in (on the police side to clarify) and as such is not releasable by myself. Though some hardcore research and public records requests in your own area will probably yield the same information. The way the particular case I'm talking about started was a wife coming in with a CD saying "there are pictures on here that are of children doing explicit things, this belongs to my husband and I'm concerned about my own children." or something to that effect. Which led to the seizure of his equipment and discovery of very very distasteful information.
The police. It seems relatively obvious that it was the municipal IT department or the software company that wrote the dispatch system, which is at fault here. But let's all jump on the Police officers' cause that's who gets blamed for everything. Damn Cops! Let's not consider that they probably were dispatched to the address and had no choice but to go. If police officers could just not go to a dispatched call because they thought it might be erroneous based on the address and there was a real emergency there then they would have criminal culpability.
Problem is that most issues of this nature just beg to escalate. Today's "oops" is tomorrow's "well I'll just look at it one more time" and in 20 years or so it's "Why not take pictures of my kids masturbating?" Some people are just not wired right and deviant behaviors escalate over time. Based on firsthand knowledge I can say that it is very likely that someone stumbling across a few CP photos on a computer could easily lead to that computer being found to contain evidence of the owner producing CP.
How to get modded up: Using "Americans" in a way that suggests you are not one and much smarter than all who are. "Americans must always sue everyone..."? I mean seriously if that's the kind of horrid generalization that passes for "insightful" around here...
Seems like Europeans must always start world wars and wait until us stupid Americans come and fix it for them.
Seems like Asians must always force everyone to work in sweat shops.
Seems like Australians must always talk about putting shrimp on the barbie.
etc...
can still access fat32 formatted USB drives...
Thing,
If you have a PDA/phone that can access a fat32 usb drive then please let me know, cause that would be awesome.
I think AC was trying to point out the congressional oversight of appointments to these posts. The current congress has a documented history of making it VERY hard to appoint anyone, I'm not agreeing that it's all their fault but I don't think AC's point is totally without merit.
Just have a look at the names of all the executives of Fannie and Freddie, you'll come to the curious conclusion that those same names all had (D) next to them and were on lists of congressmen and senators who were well "persuaded" towards the causes of both Fannie and Freddie.
I would only change one thing in your plan. (it may not really be a change depending on interpretation) I would have the proceeds go to paying down the national debt. I'm all for less taxes and credits to taxpayers, but I can't in good conscience watch the government continue to mortgage the future to finance the present. Some fat needs to be cut and some loans need to be paid off.
What a line of logic...
EULA for firefox -- annoying one time occurrence.
I don't like clicking "I Agree", too much of a hassle for a free OS
Hmm, what's less of a hassle than clicking "I agree" once per install?...
...thinking...
I KNOW, uninstalling, downloading a package, modifying package to not require me to click "I agree" once, and recompiling application!
WAY EASIER! So glad I didn't click "I agree"
2008 could be the year of Windows on the net-top!
Hey, I'm piping outside air in... you shouldn't be here
But can someone who is not old enough to have even TAKEN physics be expected to observe the laws of said "physics". I think this is why, Before I learned physics I could violate the conservation of mass and energy all I wanted, then stupid me, I learned that I was "breaking the law" and had to stop.
Your lucky numbers are 10-28-5-12 and 43
Very good points but I still believe a diesel over electric vehicle where the diesel engine ran continuously would be an huge improvement in efficiency over the current gasoline hybrids in certain (quite common) situations. For example a vehicle driven mostly on the highway with little stop and go would gain immensely from the diesel over electric concept. If when you drive, though you spend more time stopped than moving a gasoline hybrid would probably be the way to go due to all of the things you bring up.
Thanks for the information!
I see a lot of insight in most of your comment, but a few of your points are moot in this particular discussion, one is I'm not talking about EPA rated fuel economy I'm talking about how far I drive on a gallon of fuel. Second, the vehicle I'm referring to is heavier than a prius and heavier than a civic hybrid. Third, they don't put ethanol into diesel so that has no effect on the vehicles I'm proposing, even if it did I'm still talking about real world results and not manufacturer propaganda from two different eras. Lastly, this vehicle is higher off of the ground and taller than a prius/civic hybrid, and shaped roughly like a brick.
Thanks for your thoughtful response and I think we both are trying to highlight the same points, namely that so-called design has taken the front seat while efficiency and economy have been thrown out of the window.
I do believe however that there is a good reason that almost all super-heavy vehicles have used a diesel over electric principle (until nuclear came along), namely that this is the most efficient method of propelling weight and the payoffs are huge in a huge vehicle. The Navy has been using "hybrids" forever and I think emulating that technology with small, high-torque (read good for generating electricity) diesel engines would be the way to go. Diesel engine efficiency reaches near unbelievable levels if the engine is running right in it's powerband this doesn't work very well in a regular engine-transmission setup but works extremely well in a engine-generator-electric drive setup. If I drive with the goal of ultimate efficiency (very slow acceleration, as little braking as possible, trying to keep the engine RPM constantly in powerband) with a diesel I experience much bigger gains in fuel economy than doing the same thing with a gasoline engine. So imagine if a small diesel engine was always supplying energy in the most efficient way possible!
I've heard (this is third party info so who knows how to trust it) about home-built diesel-electric hybrids on typically unefficient vehicles (a 1979 chevy 1/2 ton 4X4) getting around 50 mpg. So why aren't the car companies doing it? Couple this with the fact that a diesel engine in a typical vehicle regularly will run 500,000 miles or more without needing a rebuild and you have a very attractive vehicle.
On a side note, why are we still happy with anything less than 50 mpg? I have a car from the 80's that gets that (42-45) and it's a pickup truck that weighs more than a prius/civic/whatever hybrid little car.
Why aren't we building hybrids with diesel engines? Do the car companies want us to believe that 50 MPG is some mythical cap on efficiency?
Some people say insulting someone without having any subject in the sentence are dumbasses
You're right, because they offer to give it away to anyone who comes to their website http://direct.motorola.com/hellomoto/motosupport/source/SoftwareUpdateSummary.asp?country=USA&language=ENS&web_page_name=SUPPORT&strCarrierId=Sprint&strPhone=RAZR&strCable=Mini%20USB%20Data%20Cable
From the site it suggests you make a claim every time a child is born or a child comes to live with you. Thanks for the information...
Mobile phones...TV's...smart cars...fridges pretty much any other home electronic appliance with an OS. If it's OK for LG/TiVo/Motorola/anyone else to limit the hardware you can use their OS on why isn't it ok for Apple? Yes I understand that it's easier to copy OS X than it is to copy the OS from your Razr but what's the legal difference? I really want to know. Apple can claim that they are selling appliances and that OS X discs are simply upgrades to their appliances. Someone with some legal expertise please enlighten me.
Is it something that is given to everyone with kids or just to people that fall under a certain income level?
Not even for multiple children? (I'm truly interested)
AAh but the kernel is open source, and Apple has already given permission to modify the kernel to run on non-Apple hardware. And users are allowed to modify their own kernels and run the rest of OS X on top of them. This is a very tricky issue
Parasites are never beneficial to anything but themselves.
I suggest you talk to your Gastroenterologist about that
Full version in the sense that you can (physically possible to) install on a computer with no operating system currently installed.
Upgrade version in the sense that you can't (according to EULA) install it on a computer that didn't at some time in the past have some version of Mac OS or OS X on it.
Also of note is that OS X is cheaper than it would be if it weren't for the hardware prices that subsidize it.