I'm guessing that they managed to coax the potatoes into maintaining their normal osmotic balance when watered with brackish water.
Wouldn't this lead to a build-up of salt in the soil itself? At some point, that's bound to cause problems... They don't call it "salting the earth" for nothing.
I've done that with a moderate number of exposures.
In my experience, it didn't do much to make it look like a longer exposure. That may be because of the light pollution where I was, or the relatively small number of exposures I was toying with. It does, however, clean up some of the noise in the pictures. Not really an issue when you're only using ~20 second exposures, especially if you use a dark frame and a bias frame. For longer exposures, though, the noise starts adding up, and multiple exposures are a must.
I'm still saving up for a nice telescope and mount, so I don't have much experience with high end stuff - mainly just pointing my camera at the sky and shooting right now - so take all of that with a grain of salt. Give me a year to save up the money I need for a nice 8-12" SCT, a guidescope, and a few other things and hopefully I'll know more.
Also, I hate to double post, but make sure you lock up the mirror on your camera if you have that option. Mirror slap is never good. I just picked up a nice Manfrotto tripod/head, but I still think it takes a few seconds for any vibrations to completely settle. Locking your mirror up should take care of that. It's a minor detail, but one worth mentioning.
1) It's been years since I did any work with film, so I'm afraid I can't help you there. I've just got a DSLR that I use now.
2) ~20 seconds. If you go very far beyond that, you'll end up with trails instead of nice clear shots. 30 seconds is passable, you'll just end up with tiny, tiny trails - probably not that noticeable unless you look closely. You may be able to stretch that out a bit more if you have near-superhuman vision, a geared tripod, and a steady hand, but I wouldn't count on it. That's not a bad thing though, there are some great images done that show the movement of the stars. Not every picture has to be tracked in order to be worthwhile.
3) Personal preference. I've taken some pictures at 18mm that I loved, and some at 200mm that made me just as happy. Experiment, and see what turns out catching your eye. Everyone has a different sense of aesthetics. What works for me may not work for you.
For any pictures you do take, I highly recommend the Astrometry group on Flikr. It's a bot that will match up your images with a massive database covering the night sky, and tag major features in your images for you. I certainly don't know everything in the sky I'm looking at when I decide to take a picture, so being able to upload it and have all the major features identified is incredible. In my experience, the people behind it are great as well, and very willing to share the datasets they use.
That said, if you want to get serious about it, you should look at picking up an equatorial mount. It's high on my list, right after a nice intervalometer.
the only part their panels can replace is the upper layer (and only partially, as they don't seem to be counting paint).
You're assuming there would be paint.
FTFA: "The base contains power and data lines and is overlaid by the electronics strata that contains solar cells, LEDs and supercapacitors which would produce and store electricity while the LEDs would "paint" the surface with light."
I can't argue with most of what you said, I just thought I'd point that out.
You typed your zipcode into online submission form?
To be fair, that tells you when it will be overhead. You may still need to break out a compass with an inclinometer to find out where to actually expect it, and that can be a bit of work I suppose.
Of course, if you can get your bearings, you can make good estimations using nothing more than your own hands. Last time I tried (it's been a few years, come to think of it), I was able to estimate alt/az to within about 3-5 degrees... Not as good as many, but good enough for most things. Not everyone seems able to figure that out, though.
Oh damn it. Please ignore the screwed up quote tags. It may be early in the day for most of you, but my schedule is reversed, so this is the time for drinking and being sleepy for me.
Who said I didn't? I was responding to your statement of them being equal, not to whom you voted for.
If you'd rather not lose any freedoms then I hope you found someone else to vote for.>
I took your second quote to mean that you didn't read the whole comment that I posted. When I make politically loaded statement, I often have people only make it halfway through my comments before responding - that's one of the hazards of being a critic of Democrats, Republicans, Libertarians, Greens, and everyone else - you're always going to offend someone and have them jump on you before you can finish.
I see your Dr. Chu and raise you a Eric "pro war on drugs/pro gun control" Holder;)
You've got a point there. Gun control doesn't worry me too much, even if a lot of Democrats want it, they're not in a position to make it happen right now... The backlash would be too much, there is no way they'd push for it. The drug war thing does worry me a bit. I'm hopeful that Obama will push back against the DEA and raids on medical marijuana, and get Holder in line. There have still been raids, but it's a bit too early to say that it's business as usual. Give it a few months, and if that's still going on, I'll be pissed.
IRV has lots of problems. Condorcet Methods are much more likely to give us results that we can live with, in my opinion. I really like the Schulze Method - it's currently used by Debian, Gentoo, GPG, KDE, Wikimedia, and many others.
He's made some very good pledges about openness and anti-corruption measures, so now's the time for him to live up to them.
It may or may not be a token gesture, but it certainly makes me smile to read the White House's new Copyright Policy:
Except where otherwise noted, third-party content on this site is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License. Visitors to this website agree to grant a non-exclusive, irrevocable, royalty-free license to the rest of the world for their submissions to Whitehouse.gov under the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License.
I guess that depends on which freedoms you'd rather lose. If you'd rather lose your 2nd and 4th amendment freedoms then Obama/Biden is your team. If you'd rather lose your 1st and 4th amendment freedoms then McCain/Palin should have gotten your vote. If you'd rather not lose any freedoms then I hope you found someone else to vote for.
I'm a gun owning, cryptography loving, card carrying member of the ACLU. I'm against "assault weapon" bans, and feel that the 2nd amendment should only extend to nuclear/biological/chemical weapons (with reasonable limitations to keep weapons out of the hands of the clinically insane). I have been teargassed and pepper sprayed for protesting outside of a "free speech zone". I've been searched without probable cause while citing Terry v. Ohio - a case which ruled that cops can pat you down for weapons, but not search you further. If you bothered to read what I had written, you'd also see that I voted third party (Libertarian, in this case, even though I think Barr is a dick).
Who supported the FISA bill and wants to pass a dubious assault weapons ban? Interesting way to look at the constitution.
FISA was a huge disappointment. I was seriously considering voting for a Democrat for the first time until that vote was cast, it made me swing back to third party instantly. I never said that I'm all about Obama, just that I believe his administration is an improvement over McCain/Palin. As an example, just look at the nomination of Dr. Chu - do you really believe that a McCain administration would have made such a wise choice?
They both had critical flaws which made both of them unsuitable to be our next president.
Okay, let's say that we expect a standard of 10, that's what we consider suitable. Neither a 3 nor a 7 meet the standard. That doesn't mean that 3=7.
Nothing in life is perfect. Inability to compromise is the downfall of Libertarians and Greens everywhere. Both have some great ideas (in my opinion, anything those two group agree on is as good as gold - social issues mainly), but the all-or-nothing attitude that they share keeps them from being taken seriously.
Oh come on. I'm so sick of that argument. Every vote matters. I'm as fed up with mainstream Democrats and Republicans as anyone, both tend to have major flaws... That said, do you really think that McCain/Palin and Obama/Biden are equal? Even if I don't agree with them on many issues, I'll take someone with a constitutional law degree over a senile old man and a far-right nutjob any day.
That said, I've voted for a third party all of my life. I've never lived in a swing state, so my vote won't change the outcome anyway. Does that mean my vote was wasted? Absolutely not! I vote for the third party that is most likely to get 5% of the vote, a requirement in order to receive matching funds during the next cycle (see the Public Funding of Presidential Campaigns Brochure). I recommend that everyone who lives in a solid blue or red state does the same. More voices and more opinions brought to the table will only help us.
Saying that every vote is wasted is absurd. If you don't care to educate yourself on the issues or involve yourself, that's one thing. By all means, stand aside and let those of us who do care take care of things. But if you give a damn, either stand up and be counted or shut the hell up.
I've been tooling around with the idea of pitching a night sky proposal to the mayor and city council here... I've got some connections, and could at least get listened to. I've been doing a lot of planning based on the New Mexico Heritage Preservation Alliance's Night Sky Program... It looks like I've got some additional resources to go over now, and a great lead-in to it all.
I fondly remember seeing flashes of the aurora from my childhood home. If I was to go there now and look to the north, all I'd see was streetlights and haze - and it's still a small town. I feel for those who've never had the chance to view a truly dark sky, it's a wondrous sight. If you ever have the chance, when you've got a cool clear night ahead of you, drive out as far away from it all as you can (In Oregon, I recommend heading out to the high desert, out on BLM land - people in other locales will have to find something suitable for themselves) - near a new moon if you can manage it. Watch the sun go down, and the sky fill with stars and planets, satellites both man-made and natural, and take in the amazing scape and wonder of it all. If you've got a telescope, great, take it along - but if not, you'll still have quite a show. It's good for the soul - and with natural light becoming ever more pervasive, there's no time like the present.
For anyone who doesn't want to deal with QuickTime, "The World's Energy Problem and What We Can Do About It" also appears to be on YouTube @ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=snuzWU4-gjc
Any real policy involves trade offs between what's best for a large number of different groups, each of which has different needs, goals, tolerance for risk, etc. Deciding how to make those tradeoffs and select who's interests take priority in any given situation is largely subjective. While science can help determine how feasible a given proposal is (and even then, it's more in the realm of engineering than science), it's silent on which solution is best.
I'd like to direct you to Dr. Chu's opening speech from UC Berkeley's California & The Future of Environmental Law & Policy event. While 45 minutes is far too short to go over everything (and far too long for a crowd that almost never bothers to RTFA), he addresses some of the points you make. This is from back in 2005 or so, I gather, but it's clear he has a good grasp on the challenges and potential solutions to be found. I can only imagine that he's refined his positions and proposals since then, but is the first related thing I found when I looked this morning. There's probably something more recent and relevant out there.
In any case, I applaud this choice. It sure beats the venture capitalist/CEO/treasury wonk we've got now (in his credit, he does have an Sc.D. in chemical engineering - but it seems like he's never used it, preferring to go into the financial sector instead). Before him, we had a law professor. Before that, someone who studied French/poli-sci/foreign affairs. Before that, another lawyer. I'm sure you get the idea... There has never been someone with anywhere near his credentials appointed to the job.
Assuming the numbers I found for electric chairs is correct (2,000-2,220 volts, 7-12 amps), and I didn't botch my back of the envelope math here (quite likely, I've been up for about 24 hours, and drinking for the past 8): it's enough to handle somewhere between 681,818 and 1,285,714 chairs running nonstop. That should almost be enough to meet their demands.
Congressman Dennis Kucinich read off all thirty-five articles of impeachment, each one accompanied by a great deal of supporting evidence, so that the other Congress Critters couldn't avoid hearing about it, and that at least people watching C-SPAN could witness it for themselves (as he probably knew it would get ignored by the traditional media). The vile actions of this administration need to rest on the consciences of all our representatives, whether complicit or just complacent. Really, I think he read it all off just so that it would be entered into the record. Someone needed to say all of this. Someone needed to call the administration out on their crimes - and now there is an official statement, forever cataloged and recorded, that basically says "not all of us were blind to this".
If you want to complain about wasting time in Congress, look up which party has done more filibustering in recent years.:) While I agree with you in general, especially when it comes to people saying "but Democrats said they'd do X, Y, and Z, and haven't since they got the majority!", neither party is innocent in this. Look up how much time has been wasted renaming post offices, or spent congratulating college sports teams on their championship games. I challenge anyone - Democrat, Republican, or Independent, to watch a few random days worth of House proceedings. I promise, you'll be disgusted by the amount of time wasted on absolutely asinine things.
Yes, let's destabilize another country in the region. Let's do our best to piss off OPEC. Let's shut down shipping routes through the Straight of Hormuz.
Great plan. I can't see any ways that could backfire.
On the other hand, I think if police use a taser or other electrical device, it should be treated just like kicking or punching by the legal system and needs to be justified accordingly. No, it should be treated just like a handgun. In every police department in the US that I'm familiar with (my dad was a SWAT team leader, chief of police, and various other positions in many departments in several states), even unholstering your firearm requires some pretty extensive paperwork to be filled out, detailing the circumstances and the justification for it.
Locally, the police pretty much do things that way. The policy here is basically "If you'd shoot someone, shoot them. If you'd pull your gun as a threat, but aren't threatened enough to shoot yet, tase them." It's a small town, and with some of the old guard retiring recently, they've done a pretty good job of weeding out the corrupt cops (unfortunately, the worst of them have moved on to be cops in another city, usually getting a promotion along the way), so that policy has worked pretty well here.
Of course, with stories of elementary school students getting tasered, people being beaten when they "don't comply with a lawful order" because they're essentially seizing from multiple shocks, and all of the other abuses, who knows. The biggest problem is really the code of silence that runs along the thin blue line.
WRT Linux, however. Have the Xorg folks gotten around to incorporating multiple pointer devices yet? I know there was talk of being able to use two mice, but the last time I checked the both controlled the same cursor. The link in the post you responded to actually covers that. It's called MPX. I hadn't heard of it until now, so I can't say much about it - certainly someone else here is much more informed.
I'll have to keep an eye on this... I've been looking for a way to send input from a single keyboard to multiple windows in Linux, and haven't seen anything workable yet. It looks like this might address that as well eventually.
Yeah blizzard uses a patcher that functions much like BitTorrent. It is BitTorrent, with HTTP to fall back on if needed. The patch downloader is a BT client with the.torrent file built in. It's trivial to extract the.torrent and use a client of your choice - and in my experience I get much better download speeds as well (see this (BASH) or this (perl) or this (python) or this (Win executable) for examples).
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I'm guessing that they managed to coax the potatoes into maintaining their normal osmotic balance when watered with brackish water.
Wouldn't this lead to a build-up of salt in the soil itself? At some point, that's bound to cause problems... They don't call it "salting the earth" for nothing.
I've done that with a moderate number of exposures.
In my experience, it didn't do much to make it look like a longer exposure. That may be because of the light pollution where I was, or the relatively small number of exposures I was toying with. It does, however, clean up some of the noise in the pictures. Not really an issue when you're only using ~20 second exposures, especially if you use a dark frame and a bias frame. For longer exposures, though, the noise starts adding up, and multiple exposures are a must.
I'm still saving up for a nice telescope and mount, so I don't have much experience with high end stuff - mainly just pointing my camera at the sky and shooting right now - so take all of that with a grain of salt. Give me a year to save up the money I need for a nice 8-12" SCT, a guidescope, and a few other things and hopefully I'll know more.
Also, I hate to double post, but make sure you lock up the mirror on your camera if you have that option. Mirror slap is never good. I just picked up a nice Manfrotto tripod/head, but I still think it takes a few seconds for any vibrations to completely settle. Locking your mirror up should take care of that. It's a minor detail, but one worth mentioning.
1) It's been years since I did any work with film, so I'm afraid I can't help you there. I've just got a DSLR that I use now.
2) ~20 seconds. If you go very far beyond that, you'll end up with trails instead of nice clear shots. 30 seconds is passable, you'll just end up with tiny, tiny trails - probably not that noticeable unless you look closely. You may be able to stretch that out a bit more if you have near-superhuman vision, a geared tripod, and a steady hand, but I wouldn't count on it. That's not a bad thing though, there are some great images done that show the movement of the stars. Not every picture has to be tracked in order to be worthwhile.
3) Personal preference. I've taken some pictures at 18mm that I loved, and some at 200mm that made me just as happy. Experiment, and see what turns out catching your eye. Everyone has a different sense of aesthetics. What works for me may not work for you.
For any pictures you do take, I highly recommend the Astrometry group on Flikr. It's a bot that will match up your images with a massive database covering the night sky, and tag major features in your images for you. I certainly don't know everything in the sky I'm looking at when I decide to take a picture, so being able to upload it and have all the major features identified is incredible. In my experience, the people behind it are great as well, and very willing to share the datasets they use.
That said, if you want to get serious about it, you should look at picking up an equatorial mount. It's high on my list, right after a nice intervalometer.
the only part their panels can replace is the upper layer (and only partially, as they don't seem to be counting paint).
You're assuming there would be paint.
FTFA: "The base contains power and data lines and is overlaid by the electronics strata that contains solar cells, LEDs and supercapacitors which would produce and store electricity while the LEDs would "paint" the surface with light."
I can't argue with most of what you said, I just thought I'd point that out.
You typed your zipcode into online submission form?
To be fair, that tells you when it will be overhead. You may still need to break out a compass with an inclinometer to find out where to actually expect it, and that can be a bit of work I suppose.
Of course, if you can get your bearings, you can make good estimations using nothing more than your own hands. Last time I tried (it's been a few years, come to think of it), I was able to estimate alt/az to within about 3-5 degrees... Not as good as many, but good enough for most things. Not everyone seems able to figure that out, though.
Oh damn it. Please ignore the screwed up quote tags. It may be early in the day for most of you, but my schedule is reversed, so this is the time for drinking and being sleepy for me.
Who said I didn't? I was responding to your statement of them being equal, not to whom you voted for.
If you'd rather not lose any freedoms then I hope you found someone else to vote for.> I took your second quote to mean that you didn't read the whole comment that I posted. When I make politically loaded statement, I often have people only make it halfway through my comments before responding - that's one of the hazards of being a critic of Democrats, Republicans, Libertarians, Greens, and everyone else - you're always going to offend someone and have them jump on you before you can finish.
I see your Dr. Chu and raise you a Eric "pro war on drugs/pro gun control" Holder ;)
You've got a point there. Gun control doesn't worry me too much, even if a lot of Democrats want it, they're not in a position to make it happen right now... The backlash would be too much, there is no way they'd push for it. The drug war thing does worry me a bit. I'm hopeful that Obama will push back against the DEA and raids on medical marijuana, and get Holder in line. There have still been raids, but it's a bit too early to say that it's business as usual. Give it a few months, and if that's still going on, I'll be pissed.
IRV has lots of problems. Condorcet Methods are much more likely to give us results that we can live with, in my opinion. I really like the Schulze Method - it's currently used by Debian, Gentoo, GPG, KDE, Wikimedia, and many others.
He's made some very good pledges about openness and anti-corruption measures, so now's the time for him to live up to them.
It may or may not be a token gesture, but it certainly makes me smile to read the White House's new Copyright Policy:
Except where otherwise noted, third-party content on this site is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License. Visitors to this website agree to grant a non-exclusive, irrevocable, royalty-free license to the rest of the world for their submissions to Whitehouse.gov under the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License.
I guess that depends on which freedoms you'd rather lose. If you'd rather lose your 2nd and 4th amendment freedoms then Obama/Biden is your team. If you'd rather lose your 1st and 4th amendment freedoms then McCain/Palin should have gotten your vote. If you'd rather not lose any freedoms then I hope you found someone else to vote for.
I'm a gun owning, cryptography loving, card carrying member of the ACLU. I'm against "assault weapon" bans, and feel that the 2nd amendment should only extend to nuclear/biological/chemical weapons (with reasonable limitations to keep weapons out of the hands of the clinically insane). I have been teargassed and pepper sprayed for protesting outside of a "free speech zone". I've been searched without probable cause while citing Terry v. Ohio - a case which ruled that cops can pat you down for weapons, but not search you further. If you bothered to read what I had written, you'd also see that I voted third party (Libertarian, in this case, even though I think Barr is a dick).
Who supported the FISA bill and wants to pass a dubious assault weapons ban? Interesting way to look at the constitution.
FISA was a huge disappointment. I was seriously considering voting for a Democrat for the first time until that vote was cast, it made me swing back to third party instantly. I never said that I'm all about Obama, just that I believe his administration is an improvement over McCain/Palin. As an example, just look at the nomination of Dr. Chu - do you really believe that a McCain administration would have made such a wise choice?
They both had critical flaws which made both of them unsuitable to be our next president.
Okay, let's say that we expect a standard of 10, that's what we consider suitable. Neither a 3 nor a 7 meet the standard. That doesn't mean that 3=7.
Nothing in life is perfect. Inability to compromise is the downfall of Libertarians and Greens everywhere. Both have some great ideas (in my opinion, anything those two group agree on is as good as gold - social issues mainly), but the all-or-nothing attitude that they share keeps them from being taken seriously.
Oh come on. I'm so sick of that argument. Every vote matters. I'm as fed up with mainstream Democrats and Republicans as anyone, both tend to have major flaws... That said, do you really think that McCain/Palin and Obama/Biden are equal? Even if I don't agree with them on many issues, I'll take someone with a constitutional law degree over a senile old man and a far-right nutjob any day.
That said, I've voted for a third party all of my life. I've never lived in a swing state, so my vote won't change the outcome anyway. Does that mean my vote was wasted? Absolutely not! I vote for the third party that is most likely to get 5% of the vote, a requirement in order to receive matching funds during the next cycle (see the Public Funding of Presidential Campaigns Brochure). I recommend that everyone who lives in a solid blue or red state does the same. More voices and more opinions brought to the table will only help us.
Saying that every vote is wasted is absurd. If you don't care to educate yourself on the issues or involve yourself, that's one thing. By all means, stand aside and let those of us who do care take care of things. But if you give a damn, either stand up and be counted or shut the hell up.
take in the amazing scape and wonder of it all
By which, of course, I mean scope. Allow me to take this moment to blame the beer, and preempt any grammar nazism.
I've been tooling around with the idea of pitching a night sky proposal to the mayor and city council here... I've got some connections, and could at least get listened to. I've been doing a lot of planning based on the New Mexico Heritage Preservation Alliance's Night Sky Program... It looks like I've got some additional resources to go over now, and a great lead-in to it all.
I fondly remember seeing flashes of the aurora from my childhood home. If I was to go there now and look to the north, all I'd see was streetlights and haze - and it's still a small town. I feel for those who've never had the chance to view a truly dark sky, it's a wondrous sight. If you ever have the chance, when you've got a cool clear night ahead of you, drive out as far away from it all as you can (In Oregon, I recommend heading out to the high desert, out on BLM land - people in other locales will have to find something suitable for themselves) - near a new moon if you can manage it. Watch the sun go down, and the sky fill with stars and planets, satellites both man-made and natural, and take in the amazing scape and wonder of it all. If you've got a telescope, great, take it along - but if not, you'll still have quite a show. It's good for the soul - and with natural light becoming ever more pervasive, there's no time like the present.
For anyone who doesn't want to deal with QuickTime, "The World's Energy Problem and What We Can Do About It" also appears to be on YouTube @ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=snuzWU4-gjc
Any real policy involves trade offs between what's best for a large number of different groups, each of which has different needs, goals, tolerance for risk, etc. Deciding how to make those tradeoffs and select who's interests take priority in any given situation is largely subjective. While science can help determine how feasible a given proposal is (and even then, it's more in the realm of engineering than science), it's silent on which solution is best.
I'd like to direct you to Dr. Chu's opening speech from UC Berkeley's California & The Future of Environmental Law & Policy event. While 45 minutes is far too short to go over everything (and far too long for a crowd that almost never bothers to RTFA), he addresses some of the points you make. This is from back in 2005 or so, I gather, but it's clear he has a good grasp on the challenges and potential solutions to be found. I can only imagine that he's refined his positions and proposals since then, but is the first related thing I found when I looked this morning. There's probably something more recent and relevant out there.
In any case, I applaud this choice. It sure beats the venture capitalist/CEO/treasury wonk we've got now (in his credit, he does have an Sc.D. in chemical engineering - but it seems like he's never used it, preferring to go into the financial sector instead). Before him, we had a law professor. Before that, someone who studied French/poli-sci/foreign affairs. Before that, another lawyer. I'm sure you get the idea... There has never been someone with anywhere near his credentials appointed to the job.
Quite alright. While you're here, what are you using to bait your owl traps? I haven't been having much luck with mine.
Mod parent down!
"Ride the Walrus!" is the slogan for Fishy Joe's Extreme Walrus Juice.
"Whimmy wham wham wozzle!" - Slurm MacKenzie's catchphrase, is probably the closest you can get to a Slurm slogan.
And don't even get me started on Bachelor Chow...
Assuming the numbers I found for electric chairs is correct (2,000-2,220 volts, 7-12 amps), and I didn't botch my back of the envelope math here (quite likely, I've been up for about 24 hours, and drinking for the past 8): it's enough to handle somewhere between 681,818 and 1,285,714 chairs running nonstop. That should almost be enough to meet their demands.
Yes, let's destabilize another country in the region. Let's do our best to piss off OPEC. Let's shut down shipping routes through the Straight of Hormuz.
Great plan. I can't see any ways that could backfire.
Locally, the police pretty much do things that way. The policy here is basically "If you'd shoot someone, shoot them. If you'd pull your gun as a threat, but aren't threatened enough to shoot yet, tase them." It's a small town, and with some of the old guard retiring recently, they've done a pretty good job of weeding out the corrupt cops (unfortunately, the worst of them have moved on to be cops in another city, usually getting a promotion along the way), so that policy has worked pretty well here.
Of course, with stories of elementary school students getting tasered, people being beaten when they "don't comply with a lawful order" because they're essentially seizing from multiple shocks, and all of the other abuses, who knows. The biggest problem is really the code of silence that runs along the thin blue line.
I'll have to keep an eye on this... I've been looking for a way to send input from a single keyboard to multiple windows in Linux, and haven't seen anything workable yet. It looks like this might address that as well eventually.