HAHAH...that's hilarious! I actually laughed out loud. I desperately hope this was an attempt at sarcasm that left out the hint.
If you think stock trading has even 1% of the inaccuracy of PAPER VOTING BALLOTS you're delusional. I would know, IAITFAEE (A am IT for an Electronic Exchange). We will never have a bunch of stock trades just 'disappear' like votes can. You will never see a transaction that's not authenticated and tracable from initiation to completion. Ever. We're audited regurlarly. Do you think companies would have trillions of dollars in stock portfolios if it wasn't safe? Our daily volume is in the billions of shares - easily 10's of billions of dollars daily..0001% inaccuracy would be $1,00,000 "lost" daily. Do you honestly think any "old school" (or new) voting method is 99.9999% accurate?
Remember the horror show they made from the paper punch ballots in bush's rigged election? I actually remember someone coming to the mall by me (in NY) for a school project. They asked people to do a dummy vote and punch the paper in an attempt to prove it was inconsistent and easy to mis-vote.
Just let everyone vote on ATM machines. Or even better - hire a company that builds slot machines for vegas to make them. I guarantee it's harder to cheat a current vegas slot machine than the old-school paper voting systems.
Because vote buying doesn't happen now anyhow? Maybe not in as much of a 'pull lever - get cash' but the amount spent and given away to essentially buy votes is staggering.
1) Vista is fairly difficult to pirate. The draconian activation scheme has gotten fairly hard to avoid. Pirated copies show up on tons of home computers (really, who would spend $400 on an OS when you can buy a computer for that, or less!) and people learn the look, feel and use of the new OS.
2) People complained about 95, 98, ME (yech), 2K, XP. Except maybe for win95 everyone said "we're not upgrading ever". We did...because eventually developers and home users focused on the new OS. Business followed.
3) Corporate activation - MS continues to make it difficult to activate from a corporate perspective. Either use your key or build an activation server. Your key can get out in the wild and be shut down, forcing a re-keying of all your corporate PCs...OR you build an activation server and every PC has to check in EVERY 180 days. 181st day? LImited functionality mode...perfect for home users, eh?
Yeah, I reccomended holding off on deploying vista. How'd you guess?
We're all marketing targets, yet so few realize it.
Of COURSE it's going to be called something like the "patriot act" when it's busy abusing our basic freedoms. It's patriotic to fight terrorism, right? If you oppose it you're obviously not patriotic and probably hate the country and abuse small children right?
Well gee golly. I'm going to pass a bill called "Child Abuse Prevetion Act" that requires 24/7 video and audio monitoring of every child to ensure they're not abused, molested, bullies, mis-educated,.... I mean, who wouldn't vote for this bill? It's going to ensure that no child can ever be abused! Anyone who votes against this clearly is a sick twisted monster and needs serious psychological help (see my next bill, "The Mental Health Assurance Bill" that will ensure no one is forced to live with a 'mental disorder' and no treatment). What? Are you opposing it? Should I plaster your face across the TV with words like "Voted for Allowing Child Molestation"?
At least this is ONE judge with a brain. Parent poster had it dead right. How about we just rename it to the communist act and be done with the whole thing.
What a bunch of sad geeks we've become. Instead of crying about how it was connected to the 'net i watched the video.
I'd like to know what they did to make a multi-ton generator JUMP like that thing did. After a few jumps there were a couple chunks of black stuff flying around. If you watch the "full" video it's clear they cut it at least once if not more. I'm guessing it took them quite a long while to get the generator to "blow up".
Anyone have thoughts as to how they did it? I'm going to guess they messed with the fuel/air mix or delivery and caused a massive backfire while under/overloading the alternator side. I'd guess for kicks they also forcibly turned off the cooling fans creating an over-temp in the engine. Assuming i'm right and they cut out 95% of the video length that explains it a bit better. The failure seemed two-fold: A failed main-crankshaft seal spewed out white "smoke" (read over-temp coolant) and something up by the valves making black smoke.
This is probably something you could do to a regular car if you were poking around in the engine management computer.
Give it a few more years and robots and computers will do the entire job of a business.
There will be the CEO, his robots and racks of computer of equipment...and a bank vault to keep his goldz safe from the starving unemployed mobs. Oh, and maybe a few menial jobs so he can get those tax breaks.
I'm sure they do, actually. In fact, in NY our LIRR "Ticket Takers" (they call them 'conductors') make somewhere in the neighborhood of 75-100k. Yes, for punching freaking tickets on a train. With fancy custom punch-shapes that change weekly. No. I'm not kidding.
I could train a monkey to do their job. Hell, you could easily build an AUTOMATED system that would totally do away with their jobs and maybe save us yet another transit fare hike we're facing. But no. 100% union.
When I was in college a friend DROPPED OUT OF COLLEGE because his daddy worked at the railroad and scored him a nice cushy job (they all are FYI). Why bother with a college degree when you can start around 40-50k and be guaranteed comfy raises, overtime, and so on for life?
And let's pay our CEO $billions while we're at it and call it a day.
There's a balance here somewhere but some days I fear we've tipped the scale too far. Does a 50 hour work week and another 10-20 commuting really equal out with the "better" life we all live now compared with 20 years ago? I work, live, and breath technology. I often wonder if I'd be happier with the white picked and a simpler life in the 60s or 70s.
Hell, at least there wouldn't be as many rules to protect stupid people from themselves. Oh, and a bit of honesty and integrity in people too. I remember seeing a bit of that when i was younger.
Fuel supply (i.e. reaction mass) is producted as a byproduct of generating power.
In addition, how about the 1000 tons of weapons grade fisile material laying around? (I forget who, france? Bet we have even more) Reactor grade uranium is what...3-5% enriched while weapons grade is as close to 100% as possible. So that's 20,000 tons even if we breed nothing. Just from what's laying around in one country.
As for importing uranium, try canada. Pitchblende is a huge natural source. Someone else mentioned extracting it from seawater. So if you somehow manage to run out (lets drain the oceans, right?) you can still breed it.
As for storing the waste, i agree. Using the excuse of 100% secure storage for 10+ half lives is...stupid. WHy aren't there better options? Well because nuclear power isn't our primary source of energy. Want to bet there would be more research, more options, more ideas if nuclear wasn't "evil magic" to the vast majority of our population?
How about this, build a 10TW cable from a 3rd world country. Pay them to host a farm of nuclear reactors... If only there was a practical way to pipe around power like that. Oh wait, there is. Use the power to create a transportable fuel. Hydrogen, synthetic fuel, synthetic CNG, etc. Not the most efficient, but compared to the impossibility of building a plant somewhere useful...
So "please leave" has to turn into physical violence in under 3 minutes? There was NOTHING else that could have been done? Nothing at all...
Or did they consider Kerry's time to be so important as to justify the immediate and violent removal of someone who they felt was not making the best use of his time? No like anyone ever said "all men are created equal"... maybe politicans are not considered men anymore?
So wait, Are you saying that his resisting arrest was the breach of peace?
Or are you saying that, at a POLITICAL RALLY, what he said was disrupting the peace and quiet? A rally with mics and speakers so I don't see where peace and quiet come in to play.
Hell, if someone wanted to be HONEST they would have cut him off and say "No one here cares about what you're rambling about. Please take it somewhere else or find people who do care. Good day. Please sit down quietly or you will be asked to leave"
Instead they use the cops to attack him because they're too afraid of offending someone and ruining the policital bla bla bla
Are you kidding? Because someone rambles about things you don't like and doesn't hop up and leave when you say BOO it's justification for using force????
He WAS in a public forum. He WAS in a place DESIGNATED for expressing opinions and having a debate. Ok, so you don't like HIS opinions and want him to leave. That's grounds for the cops immediately getting physical?
Good god, i'm going to carry a nightstick and wail on the next kid that comes to my house selling magazines when s/he doesn't leave the instant i say to.
However the police ostensibly have this thing called "training" on handling "difficult" situations. Did they honestly think violence was the ONLY option available to resolve the situation? I'm pretty sure their "training" includes doing everything else first before resorting to a physical altercation. Their job is to uphold the law, not bash someone's head in because s/he is annoying someone.
If he tried to approach kerry or threatened him or similar then i would support their actions as being done to protect someone from physical harm by necessary means.
NO. Police DO NOT handle punative action. That's up to the legal system.
You speak to his intentions. Maybe his intention was to ask heated questions that were not the "norm" for policical rallys. Maybe his intention was to poke at Kerry for as long as he could get away with. Maybe his intention really WAS to cause a scene.
NONE of that "deserves" having 6 cops tackle you and then a tazer shot. At worst, it deserves an appearance ticket for disturbing the peace (which i think is a BS charge to begin with).
No no no. There is a difference between a private place open to the public and a PUBLIC place owned by the gov't, etc.
A privately owned public place (e.g. supermarket, mall, office building) permission to enter is assumed. It can be revolked (i.e. you can be banned from wal-mart) and then you are no longer permitted to be there. Be careful when you talk about rights.
A public place (or your own private place) is where you can ramble poetry, protest, or walk around with a sign painted on your forehead.
Given that, they could make him leave. They couldn't, however, make him shut up. Well, legally at least. And without a taser.
Oh young jedi padawan...you must learn the ways of the force.
Asking our gov't questions can't, itself, be legal - yet. But they will watch you, stalk you, invade your privacy and eventually arrest you for spitting gum on the sidewalk. That or just prevent you from asking the questions in the first place.
You have the right to ASK but you don't have the right to be within 5 miles of the person you want to ask the question to. You get to ask but you don't have the right to stay for the answer. And so on. There's always a loophole somewhere.
Who said he barged in? It was a Q&A. At a rally. He was permitted mic time. Someone decided he took too much and didn't like the way he was questioning. Now, I'm not going to say he has a RIGHT to ramble on using the mic. In fact, i'm going to bet it was a public gathering in a publicly open PRIVATE facility. So no, he had no RIGHT to speak one word to begin with. He had no RIGHT to be admitted even. Bush has proved that in the past by refusing entry to those who didn't support him at his speeches, etc.
That said, arresting him was completly uncalled for. The escalation in violence I blame on the police. Their training is to DEFUSE situations. Protect the peace. Strong-arming and arresting someone for not taking kindly to being strong-armed and arrested is curcular logic at best. This is why I hate cops. If they did their JOB and followed their TRAINING they could have gotten him out of there with a lot less fuss, no arrest, no drama, no TV, no youtube, no news story. Their (police) actions caused far more of a disturbance than the guy did. They caused far more of a disturbance than calmly making him leave could possibly have. He's a journalism student, not a crack-head ex-con. Even Kerry was more of an adult about it - he at least offered to address the question. In my mind that makes the cops wrong from that instant on.
Again, cops are there to protect the peace. If the GUEST SPEAKER is willing to address the question I would expect the police to take a break from pushing the guy around. At least stop long enough for Kerry to answer and then kindly tell the person his time is done and to sit down or leave *OR* the police will be forced to escort you out. Escort out, not gang-tackle, tazer and arrest.
The problem with resisting arrest is that police can walk up to you and decide you smell funny so we're going to arrest you. You, being a good citizen who has done nothing wrong but skip a shower is confused, scared, and angry that s/he is being violated for an unknown reason. Of course the reaction is to struggle.
Now you've been arrested for resisting arrest. Half the time the orig. charges don't stick, are dropped, or just didn't exist to begin with. Brilliant.
Agreed. A tazer is still potentially deadly force and should only be used when there is danger to a police officer or bystander.
There were at LEAST 4 cops and he wasn't ATTACKING anyone (except maybe verbally), he was trying to get them to let go of him. If a cop tazers someone in this situation and they die, he should be charged with, at a minimum, involuntary manslaughter.
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HAHAH...that's hilarious! I actually laughed out loud. I desperately hope this was an attempt at sarcasm that left out the hint.
.0001% inaccuracy would be $1,00,000 "lost" daily. Do you honestly think any "old school" (or new) voting method is 99.9999% accurate?
If you think stock trading has even 1% of the inaccuracy of PAPER VOTING BALLOTS you're delusional. I would know, IAITFAEE (A am IT for an Electronic Exchange). We will never have a bunch of stock trades just 'disappear' like votes can. You will never see a transaction that's not authenticated and tracable from initiation to completion. Ever. We're audited regurlarly. Do you think companies would have trillions of dollars in stock portfolios if it wasn't safe? Our daily volume is in the billions of shares - easily 10's of billions of dollars daily.
Remember the horror show they made from the paper punch ballots in bush's rigged election? I actually remember someone coming to the mall by me (in NY) for a school project. They asked people to do a dummy vote and punch the paper in an attempt to prove it was inconsistent and easy to mis-vote.
Just let everyone vote on ATM machines. Or even better - hire a company that builds slot machines for vegas to make them. I guarantee it's harder to cheat a current vegas slot machine than the old-school paper voting systems.
Because vote buying doesn't happen now anyhow? Maybe not in as much of a 'pull lever - get cash' but the amount spent and given away to essentially buy votes is staggering.
I'll fill in a few things:
1) Vista is fairly difficult to pirate. The draconian activation scheme has gotten fairly hard to avoid. Pirated copies show up on tons of home computers (really, who would spend $400 on an OS when you can buy a computer for that, or less!) and people learn the look, feel and use of the new OS.
2) People complained about 95, 98, ME (yech), 2K, XP. Except maybe for win95 everyone said "we're not upgrading ever". We did...because eventually developers and home users focused on the new OS. Business followed.
3) Corporate activation - MS continues to make it difficult to activate from a corporate perspective. Either use your key or build an activation server. Your key can get out in the wild and be shut down, forcing a re-keying of all your corporate PCs...OR you build an activation server and every PC has to check in EVERY 180 days. 181st day? LImited functionality mode...perfect for home users, eh?
Yeah, I reccomended holding off on deploying vista. How'd you guess?
We're all marketing targets, yet so few realize it.
.... I mean, who wouldn't vote for this bill? It's going to ensure that no child can ever be abused! Anyone who votes against this clearly is a sick twisted monster and needs serious psychological help (see my next bill, "The Mental Health Assurance Bill" that will ensure no one is forced to live with a 'mental disorder' and no treatment). What? Are you opposing it? Should I plaster your face across the TV with words like "Voted for Allowing Child Molestation"?
Of COURSE it's going to be called something like the "patriot act" when it's busy abusing our basic freedoms. It's patriotic to fight terrorism, right? If you oppose it you're obviously not patriotic and probably hate the country and abuse small children right?
Well gee golly. I'm going to pass a bill called "Child Abuse Prevetion Act" that requires 24/7 video and audio monitoring of every child to ensure they're not abused, molested, bullies, mis-educated,
At least this is ONE judge with a brain. Parent poster had it dead right. How about we just rename it to the communist act and be done with the whole thing.
What a bunch of sad geeks we've become. Instead of crying about how it was connected to the 'net i watched the video.
I'd like to know what they did to make a multi-ton generator JUMP like that thing did. After a few jumps there were a couple chunks of black stuff flying around. If you watch the "full" video it's clear they cut it at least once if not more. I'm guessing it took them quite a long while to get the generator to "blow up".
Anyone have thoughts as to how they did it? I'm going to guess they messed with the fuel/air mix or delivery and caused a massive backfire while under/overloading the alternator side. I'd guess for kicks they also forcibly turned off the cooling fans creating an over-temp in the engine. Assuming i'm right and they cut out 95% of the video length that explains it a bit better. The failure seemed two-fold: A failed main-crankshaft seal spewed out white "smoke" (read over-temp coolant) and something up by the valves making black smoke.
This is probably something you could do to a regular car if you were poking around in the engine management computer.
My math puts 7 years 3% compound at 22.987%
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Probably didn't hit the enter key that last time...but compound has to be more than 7 * 3% = 21
Give it a few more years and robots and computers will do the entire job of a business.
There will be the CEO, his robots and racks of computer of equipment...and a bank vault to keep his goldz safe from the starving unemployed mobs. Oh, and maybe a few menial jobs so he can get those tax breaks.
I'm sure they do, actually. In fact, in NY our LIRR "Ticket Takers" (they call them 'conductors') make somewhere in the neighborhood of 75-100k. Yes, for punching freaking tickets on a train. With fancy custom punch-shapes that change weekly. No. I'm not kidding.
I could train a monkey to do their job. Hell, you could easily build an AUTOMATED system that would totally do away with their jobs and maybe save us yet another transit fare hike we're facing. But no. 100% union.
When I was in college a friend DROPPED OUT OF COLLEGE because his daddy worked at the railroad and scored him a nice cushy job (they all are FYI). Why bother with a college degree when you can start around 40-50k and be guaranteed comfy raises, overtime, and so on for life?
And let's pay our CEO $billions while we're at it and call it a day.
There's a balance here somewhere but some days I fear we've tipped the scale too far. Does a 50 hour work week and another 10-20 commuting really equal out with the "better" life we all live now compared with 20 years ago? I work, live, and breath technology. I often wonder if I'd be happier with the white picked and a simpler life in the 60s or 70s.
Hell, at least there wouldn't be as many rules to protect stupid people from themselves. Oh, and a bit of honesty and integrity in people too. I remember seeing a bit of that when i was younger.
Two Words:
Breeder Reactor.
Fuel supply (i.e. reaction mass) is producted as a byproduct of generating power.
In addition, how about the 1000 tons of weapons grade fisile material laying around? (I forget who, france? Bet we have even more) Reactor grade uranium is what...3-5% enriched while weapons grade is as close to 100% as possible. So that's 20,000 tons even if we breed nothing. Just from what's laying around in one country.
As for importing uranium, try canada. Pitchblende is a huge natural source. Someone else mentioned extracting it from seawater. So if you somehow manage to run out (lets drain the oceans, right?) you can still breed it.
As for storing the waste, i agree. Using the excuse of 100% secure storage for 10+ half lives is...stupid. WHy aren't there better options? Well because nuclear power isn't our primary source of energy. Want to bet there would be more research, more options, more ideas if nuclear wasn't "evil magic" to the vast majority of our population?
How about this, build a 10TW cable from a 3rd world country. Pay them to host a farm of nuclear reactors... If only there was a practical way to pipe around power like that. Oh wait, there is. Use the power to create a transportable fuel. Hydrogen, synthetic fuel, synthetic CNG, etc. Not the most efficient, but compared to the impossibility of building a plant somewhere useful...
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Funny though...THEY were grabbing HIM. They were in no danger other than the danger they caused by getting physical.
So "please leave" has to turn into physical violence in under 3 minutes? There was NOTHING else that could have been done? Nothing at all...
... maybe politicans are not considered men anymore?
Or did they consider Kerry's time to be so important as to justify the immediate and violent removal of someone who they felt was not making the best use of his time? No like anyone ever said "all men are created equal"
So wait, Are you saying that his resisting arrest was the breach of peace?
Or are you saying that, at a POLITICAL RALLY, what he said was disrupting the peace and quiet? A rally with mics and speakers so I don't see where peace and quiet come in to play.
Hell, if someone wanted to be HONEST they would have cut him off and say "No one here cares about what you're rambling about. Please take it somewhere else or find people who do care. Good day. Please sit down quietly or you will be asked to leave"
Instead they use the cops to attack him because they're too afraid of offending someone and ruining the policital bla bla bla
Are you kidding? Because someone rambles about things you don't like and doesn't hop up and leave when you say BOO it's justification for using force????
He WAS in a public forum. He WAS in a place DESIGNATED for expressing opinions and having a debate. Ok, so you don't like HIS opinions and want him to leave. That's grounds for the cops immediately getting physical?
Good god, i'm going to carry a nightstick and wail on the next kid that comes to my house selling magazines when s/he doesn't leave the instant i say to.
He may have acted in a less than stellar manner.
However the police ostensibly have this thing called "training" on handling "difficult" situations. Did they honestly think violence was the ONLY option available to resolve the situation? I'm pretty sure their "training" includes doing everything else first before resorting to a physical altercation. Their job is to uphold the law, not bash someone's head in because s/he is annoying someone.
If he tried to approach kerry or threatened him or similar then i would support their actions as being done to protect someone from physical harm by necessary means.
NO. Police DO NOT handle punative action. That's up to the legal system.
You speak to his intentions. Maybe his intention was to ask heated questions that were not the "norm" for policical rallys. Maybe his intention was to poke at Kerry for as long as he could get away with. Maybe his intention really WAS to cause a scene.
NONE of that "deserves" having 6 cops tackle you and then a tazer shot. At worst, it deserves an appearance ticket for disturbing the peace (which i think is a BS charge to begin with).
No no no. There is a difference between a private place open to the public and a PUBLIC place owned by the gov't, etc.
A privately owned public place (e.g. supermarket, mall, office building) permission to enter is assumed. It can be revolked (i.e. you can be banned from wal-mart) and then you are no longer permitted to be there. Be careful when you talk about rights.
A public place (or your own private place) is where you can ramble poetry, protest, or walk around with a sign painted on your forehead.
Given that, they could make him leave. They couldn't, however, make him shut up. Well, legally at least. And without a taser.
Oh young jedi padawan...you must learn the ways of the force.
Asking our gov't questions can't, itself, be legal - yet. But they will watch you, stalk you, invade your privacy and eventually arrest you for spitting gum on the sidewalk. That or just prevent you from asking the questions in the first place.
You have the right to ASK but you don't have the right to be within 5 miles of the person you want to ask the question to. You get to ask but you don't have the right to stay for the answer. And so on. There's always a loophole somewhere.
Hell, if you watch *ONE* of them carried him most of the way out.
They're too busy enforcing their 'authority' to worry about doing their JOB.
Who said he barged in? It was a Q&A. At a rally. He was permitted mic time. Someone decided he took too much and didn't like the way he was questioning. Now, I'm not going to say he has a RIGHT to ramble on using the mic. In fact, i'm going to bet it was a public gathering in a publicly open PRIVATE facility. So no, he had no RIGHT to speak one word to begin with. He had no RIGHT to be admitted even. Bush has proved that in the past by refusing entry to those who didn't support him at his speeches, etc.
That said, arresting him was completly uncalled for. The escalation in violence I blame on the police. Their training is to DEFUSE situations. Protect the peace. Strong-arming and arresting someone for not taking kindly to being strong-armed and arrested is curcular logic at best. This is why I hate cops. If they did their JOB and followed their TRAINING they could have gotten him out of there with a lot less fuss, no arrest, no drama, no TV, no youtube, no news story. Their (police) actions caused far more of a disturbance than the guy did. They caused far more of a disturbance than calmly making him leave could possibly have. He's a journalism student, not a crack-head ex-con. Even Kerry was more of an adult about it - he at least offered to address the question. In my mind that makes the cops wrong from that instant on.
Again, cops are there to protect the peace. If the GUEST SPEAKER is willing to address the question I would expect the police to take a break from pushing the guy around. At least stop long enough for Kerry to answer and then kindly tell the person his time is done and to sit down or leave *OR* the police will be forced to escort you out. Escort out, not gang-tackle, tazer and arrest.
The problem with resisting arrest is that police can walk up to you and decide you smell funny so we're going to arrest you. You, being a good citizen who has done nothing wrong but skip a shower is confused, scared, and angry that s/he is being violated for an unknown reason. Of course the reaction is to struggle.
Now you've been arrested for resisting arrest. Half the time the orig. charges don't stick, are dropped, or just didn't exist to begin with. Brilliant.
Agreed. A tazer is still potentially deadly force and should only be used when there is danger to a police officer or bystander.
There were at LEAST 4 cops and he wasn't ATTACKING anyone (except maybe verbally), he was trying to get them to let go of him. If a cop tazers someone in this situation and they die, he should be charged with, at a minimum, involuntary manslaughter.