In the end the best two plans are to rig it with explosives or do the good old Office Space scene by taking a baseball bat to the office copier in a field.
Tannerite is the way to go. There is nothing more satisfying.
You obviously have no idea what really taking responsibility means. If you fuck up so bad that nothing can ever fix it, you deserve to spend the rest of your life dedicated to trying to fix it anyway. That kind of deterrent tends to be more effective at preventing tragedies than turning society into a bunch of perpetual children by restricting everything they might do that could have ugly consequences.
Of course it's too late to do any good for people like you who have already either decided to be perpetual children, or see themselves as overseers of that perverse kindergarten.
"Of all tyrannies a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It may be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies, The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for own good w...ill torment us without end, for they do so with the approval of their own conscience." -- C.S. Lewis
Are you saying that people have no idea that they're imbibing concoctions that contain alcohol and caffeine, and that they further have no idea of the effects of those chemicals? That knowledge is the whole reason the stuff sells.
Another case where it doesn't matter. If someone is driving in an erratic manner or causes an accident, throw the book at them for that. Don't try to analyze and control everything that might be a contributing factor. It's futile, and contrary to the legitimate purpose of government.
Instead; encourage people to know their limitations and act within them, and hold them responsible if they fail to do so.
One of the products I'm involved with repairing at work is an embedded controller running Linux, that's used as a gateway for SCADA networks in power transmission systems.
I received one from the field for repair a year or so ago, and based on the host name the customer had assigned it, it looked as though it had been controlling a substation for a new 14kV line running to a major metropolitan area.
The first thing I noticed when checking it out was that the default root password hadn't been changed.
Wow. That does sound like a better solution. My only explanation for why that method isn't commonly taught is that most teachers just aren't that clever. They teach one and only one way of doing things and the unfortunate southpaw students are left to adapt the instruction as best they can without arousing the teacher's ire.
Writing manually doesn't force you take your time and think things out a little before you start, it just makes it a good idea to do so. Much like using a word processor doesn't force you to go back and insert a new paragraph, or rearranging the order of your arguments at the last second.
Writing electronically lowers the threshold for how lazy a person can be and still produce something coherent. Encouraging laziness isn't a good thing of course, but I'd still rate it above having to read rambling and incoherent scrawl.
How I despise all those loops that only look correct when pushing the line to the left and pulling it to the right, and the contortions necessary to simulate them with with the left hand.
"Did you really think that we want those laws to be observed?" said Dr. Ferris. "We want them broken. You'd better get It straight that it's not a bunch of boy scouts you're up against - then you'll know that this is not the age for beautiful gestures. We're after power and we mean it. You fellows were pikers, but we know the real trick, and you'd better get wise to it.
There's no way to rule innocent men. The only power any government has is the power to crack down on criminals. Well, when there aren't enough criminals, one makes them. One declares so many things to be a crime that it becomes impossible for men to live without breaking laws.
Who wants a nation of law-abiding citizens? What's there in that for anyone? But just pass the kind of laws that can neither be observed nor enforced nor objectively interpreted - and you create a nation of law-breakers - and then you cash in on guilt. Now that's the system, Mr. Resrden, that's the garrie, and once you understand it, you'll be much easier to deal with."
Whether running Linux or Windows - aren't you going to run into some serious horsepower issues if you try to accommodate students who own netbooks?
I don't see why. Most student level electronics simulation just shouldn't be all that CPU intensive. When I was an EE student 10 years ago, people did just fine with 150MHz machines running SPICE.
Discuss racial representation in games all you like. Nobody is stopping you.
Just don't assume that people need to come to the conclusion you might like, or any conclusion at all. Don't even think about trying to use legal force to get game developers to change based on your discussion.
Gasoline is a very 'dry' fluid. It provides almost no lubricity. Diesel engines need some lubricity in their fuel to lubricate the very high pressure injection system (might be less of an issue with modern common rail systems and piezo injectors though).
Yep. The N series of tablets. I just got an N810 from buy.com fro $179. It's got an 800x480 touch screen, slide out keyboard, 802.11b/g, bluetooth, GPS, flash enabled browser, webcam, mini-sd for expansion, huge battery life, can function as a USB host, etc. It also has a nice selection of free software available. And it fits in a pocket.
For something with a 12" screen like the subject of the article, I'd rather just use a netbook.
"Assisted GPS (A-GPS) provides assistance data for GPS calculations within the device. This application enables A-GPS on your N810 Internet Tablet device and provides improved performance and GPS fix times."
Not that easy circumvention of a bad law makes it okay, but as a practical measure wouldn't it be easy to just use a DNS server in a different country? Or is Germany planning on firewalling all DNS queries except those from 'official' servers?
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is here:
http://cryptome.org/tsa-screening.zip
Care to elaborate?
In the end the best two plans are to rig it with explosives or do the good old Office Space scene by taking a baseball bat to the office copier in a field.
Tannerite is the way to go. There is nothing more satisfying.
Myself and a couple friends spent an afternoon playing with Tannerite a couple weeks ago:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eYm-KqzqD2A
Bad guys are the ones that *initiate* the use of force in getting what they want.
Cowardly scumbags on the other hand, is a label I save for moral relativists.
Good band recognition and marketing qualify as technical innovation now?
Do you imagine that the problem of young people being reckless is one that can be reduced by banning caffeinated alcoholic drinks?
No shit Sherlock.
You obviously have no idea what really taking responsibility means. If you fuck up so bad that nothing can ever fix it, you deserve to spend the rest of your life dedicated to trying to fix it anyway. That kind of deterrent tends to be more effective at preventing tragedies than turning society into a bunch of perpetual children by restricting everything they might do that could have ugly consequences.
Of course it's too late to do any good for people like you who have already either decided to be perpetual children, or see themselves as overseers of that perverse kindergarten.
I guess I'm a dinosaur like that.
"Of all tyrannies a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It may be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies, The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for own good w...ill torment us without end, for they do so with the approval of their own conscience." -- C.S. Lewis
Are you saying that people have no idea that they're imbibing concoctions that contain alcohol and caffeine, and that they further have no idea of the effects of those chemicals? That knowledge is the whole reason the stuff sells.
Another case where it doesn't matter. If someone is driving in an erratic manner or causes an accident, throw the book at them for that. Don't try to analyze and control everything that might be a contributing factor. It's futile, and contrary to the legitimate purpose of government.
Instead; encourage people to know their limitations and act within them, and hold them responsible if they fail to do so.
Potential disaster or not, as long as people are making an informed and deliberate choice I fail to see the need for government action.
One of the products I'm involved with repairing at work is an embedded controller running Linux, that's used as a gateway for SCADA networks in power transmission systems.
I received one from the field for repair a year or so ago, and based on the host name the customer had assigned it, it looked as though it had been controlling a substation for a new 14kV line running to a major metropolitan area.
The first thing I noticed when checking it out was that the default root password hadn't been changed.
Wow. That does sound like a better solution. My only explanation for why that method isn't commonly taught is that most teachers just aren't that clever. They teach one and only one way of doing things and the unfortunate southpaw students are left to adapt the instruction as best they can without arousing the teacher's ire.
Writing manually doesn't force you take your time and think things out a little before you start, it just makes it a good idea to do so. Much like using a word processor doesn't force you to go back and insert a new paragraph, or rearranging the order of your arguments at the last second.
Writing electronically lowers the threshold for how lazy a person can be and still produce something coherent. Encouraging laziness isn't a good thing of course, but I'd still rate it above having to read rambling and incoherent scrawl.
How I despise all those loops that only look correct when pushing the line to the left and pulling it to the right, and the contortions necessary to simulate them with with the left hand.
"Did you really think that we want those laws to be observed?" said Dr. Ferris. "We want them broken. You'd better get It straight that it's not a bunch of boy scouts you're up against - then you'll know that this is not the age for beautiful gestures. We're after power and we mean it. You fellows were pikers, but we know the real trick, and you'd better get wise to it.
There's no way to rule innocent men. The only power any government has is the power to crack down on criminals. Well, when there aren't enough criminals, one makes them. One declares so many things to be a crime that it becomes impossible for men to live without breaking laws.
Who wants a nation of law-abiding citizens? What's there in that for anyone? But just pass the kind of laws that can neither be observed nor enforced nor objectively interpreted - and you create a nation of law-breakers - and then you cash in on guilt. Now that's the system, Mr. Resrden, that's the garrie, and once you understand it, you'll be much easier to deal with."
Whether running Linux or Windows - aren't you going to run into some serious horsepower issues if you try to accommodate students who own netbooks?
I don't see why. Most student level electronics simulation just shouldn't be all that CPU intensive. When I was an EE student 10 years ago, people did just fine with 150MHz machines running SPICE.
Discuss racial representation in games all you like. Nobody is stopping you.
Just don't assume that people need to come to the conclusion you might like, or any conclusion at all. Don't even think about trying to use legal force to get game developers to change based on your discussion.
When your train flies.
Gasoline is a very 'dry' fluid. It provides almost no lubricity. Diesel engines need some lubricity in their fuel to lubricate the very high pressure injection system (might be less of an issue with modern common rail systems and piezo injectors though).
Yep. The N series of tablets. I just got an N810 from buy.com fro $179. It's got an 800x480 touch screen, slide out keyboard, 802.11b/g, bluetooth, GPS, flash enabled browser, webcam, mini-sd for expansion, huge battery life, can function as a USB host, etc. It also has a nice selection of free software available. And it fits in a pocket.
For something with a 12" screen like the subject of the article, I'd rather just use a netbook.
Wait, you got a GPS signal with a Nokia N810? Could you link to the details of the proper animal sacrifice ritual?
http://betalabs.nokia.com/betas/view/gps-beta-nokia-n810
"Assisted GPS (A-GPS) provides assistance data for GPS calculations within the device. This application enables A-GPS on your N810 Internet Tablet device and provides improved performance and GPS fix times."
Is there some course of action you suggest?
In the defense of liberty box usage spectrum of ballot > soap > jury > ammo, I'd say we're still pretty deep in the ballot or soap band.
Not that easy circumvention of a bad law makes it okay, but as a practical measure wouldn't it be easy to just use a DNS server in a different country? Or is Germany planning on firewalling all DNS queries except those from 'official' servers?
Progressive.com
It might help that I'm now 30, have been riding for 15 years, live in a small city, and currently have a clean driving record.