Laws like that were passed quite possibly in good faith, to give an officer the ability to stop somthing that clearly SHOULD be illegal but that there wasn't a law on the books at the time. It shifts the job of the officer from enforcing the law to creating and interpreting it. Senators create laws. Juries and judges interpret laws. Officers enforce laws. When you create a law that permits or requires the officer to interpret it, it's a Bad Law. And if you can't figure out a way to word a law to make only exactly what you want to be judged illegal, that's no excuse for creating a Bad Law. Either word it to give more benefit of the doubt, or DON'T make it in the first place.
I totally agree with you in theory. It would be great if laws could be written in a way that was clear cut and officers didn't have to make judgment calls. The problem is that, in domestic cases in particular, this is damn near impossible to do. Granted in the example in this article the officers clearly were out of line though.
With that particular gem, they basically can tell you to do practically anything (short of something unconstitutional) and if you don't do it, bam, failure to obey, cuff 'im Dano.
If he was really too fat to fly they never should have sold him a ticket.
And they'd better damn well have given him a full refund or a free transfer or it's fraud.
I understand where you are coming from as I have to fly frequently and am tired of everything that the airlines have taken away from their customers over the years. However I also find it annoying when I'm stuck sitting next to someone who clearly should be forced to purchased two seats for their fat ass. Why should I have to deal with their fat ass spilling over into my already cramped space? If they choose to be the size of two people I nor someone else that is stuck sitting next to them should have to suffer for it.
We also don't know the entire story. There may have been weight or weight balance issues. It's common on smaller planes to have to move people to the back of the plane for balance issues. Perhaps he didn't want to give up his first class seat (not that I fly Southwest so I don't know if they even have it) or just refused to move to the back of the plane. Perhaps the captain chose to boot one fat person rather than two normal sized people. That would make sense to me. This probably happens all of the time to regular people. I get tired of celebrities who get treated like everyone else and then use their status to make a big deal about it.
Do you realize just how far away the moon is from Earth?
From the link: Scale model of the Earth and the Moon, with a beam of light travelling [sic] between them at the speed of light. It takes approximately 1.26 seconds.
1.26 seconds. That's less than the space between me and the car in front of me.
does Alt+PrtSc allow you to manually select any *section* of screen ? didn't think so..
No, but it's simple enough to paste into Paint and do so. Unless you are doing this multiple time a day, I don't see the justification for spending money to do this.
Don't forget, the US already shot a satellite out of the sky. They tried to rationalize an attempt to get the satellite to hit water instead of land, but if you think it was anything less than a weapons test, you're being a bit naive. I was quite disappointed that this angle didn't get more play in the news.
As far as I know the satellite you mentioned is, in fact, now out of the sky. Unlike the prior Chinese anti-satellite test or what the device in the article will do.
The Terror Pussies - that'd be a good name for a band. Unfortunately, it's also a description of most of our Congress and a lot of our fellow citizens (especially the ones with Rs after their names).
If you kick someone in the balls and they smile and give you a $100 bill then eventually you will not only do a LOT of kicking but you also come to hate that stupid smiling face.
Yes, but they make medication for that, and with that kind of salary it's affordable too.
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Everyone has stories to tell about their car that made it past 200k. Shit, I drive a 2002 Chevy Astrovan with 239k miles. Doesn't mean it's a good van.
Indeed. I had an 86 Cadillac Seville that I traded in at 320K miles (it still ran fine). However this was a oddity as that particular engine was known for shaving the lobes off of the cam in less than 100K miles. But I always use synthetic oil and change it at 5K miles no matter what I drive.
I'm not sure what capitalist society you're talking about, but you need to visit some inner-city schools and spend some time in those neighborhoods and tell me about how children born there have the ability to create their own happiness.
I have and have known many who have been very successful. I don't think it's the capitalist society that is the problem so much as the societal mindset in the inner-cities.
No it's not. Car analogy: You are running at full speed, about to hit a tree; the two people in the front seat now start squabbling whether to turn the steering wheel left or right while still pumping the throttle...
What type of car is this? If it's a laden VW bus in need of a tune-up going up hill I don't think there's much to worry about. Also, can you please explain what the tree represents in your analogy?
Except in the all-too-common case when the Organs of the State kill the wrong person.
As for the deterrent effect: Texas has the death penalty and has for a long time, and the State of Texas is aggressive about killing people on Death Row. Texas has one of the highest murder rates in the US.
North Dakota does not have the death penalty, and as far as I know never has. It has one of the lowest murder rates in the US.
Anyone who is not batshit insane will look at those facts and ask, "What is it about North Dakota that keeps the murder rate so low, and what can we do to make Texas more like that?" Instead, ideological idiots distract everyone from the debate with their data-free imaginings.
Texas has the second highest population of the US states and North Dakota is the second lowest.
Population of Texas: 24,326,974 Pop. of North Dakota: 641,481
So we should just execute 23.5 million people, or so, in Texas and the problem's solved. Oh, and maybe carve some presidents faces in a mountain or something in Mexico (since there's no state directly south of Texas) just for good measure.
In short, this sort of thing isn't about making cash, it's about taking yet another small step for mankind. Yes, that requires looking past your lifetime, but that doesn't mean it's not worth doing.
I totally agree with you, unfortunately until you figure out how this can be used to win in the next election cycle it's just not going to happen any time soon.
... what happened to 3com. Some of us remember "back in the day" when 3com was one of the top brands for network cards (3c503 or 3c509 anyone?). Then their cards disappeared from the market some years ago, apparently they decided to focus on other areas. I guess it isn't a huge surprise that they would become a target for acquisition.
That's ancient history. My most recent memory of 3com is a 3C16470 switch that needed to be power cycled on a weekly basis.
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Anyone who watches Star Trek knows that any time you want to solve technical problems or achieve new developments, all you need to do is reverse the polarity or invert the phase.
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So, my choices went from iPad vs Courier to iPad vs nothing else on the market, and this helped Microsoft in some way.
When they went from XP vs. OSX to Vista vs. XP and OSX it sure didn't do much for their reputation, or stock prices for that matter.
Laws like that were passed quite possibly in good faith, to give an officer the ability to stop somthing that clearly SHOULD be illegal but that there wasn't a law on the books at the time. It shifts the job of the officer from enforcing the law to creating and interpreting it. Senators create laws. Juries and judges interpret laws. Officers enforce laws. When you create a law that permits or requires the officer to interpret it, it's a Bad Law. And if you can't figure out a way to word a law to make only exactly what you want to be judged illegal, that's no excuse for creating a Bad Law. Either word it to give more benefit of the doubt, or DON'T make it in the first place.
I totally agree with you in theory. It would be great if laws could be written in a way that was clear cut and officers didn't have to make judgment calls. The problem is that, in domestic cases in particular, this is damn near impossible to do. Granted in the example in this article the officers clearly were out of line though.
With that particular gem, they basically can tell you to do practically anything (short of something unconstitutional) and if you don't do it, bam, failure to obey, cuff 'im Dano.
BTW it's "Book'm Danno".
And just how do you manage to maintain an average speed of 168 km/h (104 mph) in the middle of Boston
Considering his was probably the only vehicle along the route I don't think traffic was a problem.
Sure, though in the interests of disclosure I didn't say the virgins were particularly attractive, or even female.
So you have members of Slashdot working for you eh?
If he was really too fat to fly they never should have sold him a ticket.
And they'd better damn well have given him a full refund or a free transfer or it's fraud.
I understand where you are coming from as I have to fly frequently and am tired of everything that the airlines have taken away from their customers over the years. However I also find it annoying when I'm stuck sitting next to someone who clearly should be forced to purchased two seats for their fat ass. Why should I have to deal with their fat ass spilling over into my already cramped space? If they choose to be the size of two people I nor someone else that is stuck sitting next to them should have to suffer for it.
We also don't know the entire story. There may have been weight or weight balance issues. It's common on smaller planes to have to move people to the back of the plane for balance issues. Perhaps he didn't want to give up his first class seat (not that I fly Southwest so I don't know if they even have it) or just refused to move to the back of the plane. Perhaps the captain chose to boot one fat person rather than two normal sized people. That would make sense to me. This probably happens all of the time to regular people. I get tired of celebrities who get treated like everyone else and then use their status to make a big deal about it.
I guess the US will be exporting space exploration to China now as well.
has a photo of the jet.
So not *that* stealthy then ? Of course, I guess if it was that good, the pilot would never be able to find where he parked the thing.
That was in the original plans. However there were design problems in the magic lasso department and a serious shortage of qualified Amazon pilots.
Do you realize just how far away the moon is from Earth?
From the link: Scale model of the Earth and the Moon, with a beam of light travelling [sic] between them at the speed of light. It takes approximately 1.26 seconds.
1.26 seconds. That's less than the space between me and the car in front of me.
Even when he will eventually resign, he will still be remembered as the chairman of Microsoft. Now THAT's a legacy!
Don't you mean Chair-Man?
Not that we'll ever forget Ballmer's 'developers, developers, developers' rant."
Or flying chairs.
does Alt+PrtSc allow you to manually select any *section* of screen ?
didn't think so..
No, but it's simple enough to paste into Paint and do so. Unless you are doing this multiple time a day, I don't see the justification for spending money to do this.
Don't forget, the US already shot a satellite out of the sky. They tried to rationalize an attempt to get the satellite to hit water instead of land, but if you think it was anything less than a weapons test, you're being a bit naive. I was quite disappointed that this angle didn't get more play in the news.
As far as I know the satellite you mentioned is, in fact, now out of the sky. Unlike the prior Chinese anti-satellite test or what the device in the article will do.
The "God Mode" is just a different view for the many things available in the control panel.
Plus it keeps you from getting fragged by a shambler.
http://xkcd.com/303/
The Terror Pussies - that'd be a good name for a band. Unfortunately, it's also a description of most of our Congress and a lot of our fellow citizens (especially the ones with Rs after their names).
What's your problem with registered nurses?
If you kick someone in the balls and they smile and give you a $100 bill then eventually you will not only do a LOT of kicking but you also come to hate that stupid smiling face.
Yes, but they make medication for that, and with that kind of salary it's affordable too.
Everyone has stories to tell about their car that made it past 200k. Shit, I drive a 2002 Chevy Astrovan with 239k miles. Doesn't mean it's a good van.
Indeed. I had an 86 Cadillac Seville that I traded in at 320K miles (it still ran fine). However this was a oddity as that particular engine was known for shaving the lobes off of the cam in less than 100K miles. But I always use synthetic oil and change it at 5K miles no matter what I drive.
I'm not sure what capitalist society you're talking about, but you need to visit some inner-city schools and spend some time in those neighborhoods and tell me about how children born there have the ability to create their own happiness.
I have and have known many who have been very successful. I don't think it's the capitalist society that is the problem so much as the societal mindset in the inner-cities.
I'm imagining someone selling the Navy fake ships.
I was thinking that someone had sold them Pringles.
given what they want to do, that's a good thing.
No it's not. Car analogy: You are running at full speed, about to hit a tree; the two people in the front seat now start squabbling whether to turn the steering wheel left or right while still pumping the throttle...
What type of car is this? If it's a laden VW bus in need of a tune-up going up hill I don't think there's much to worry about. Also, can you please explain what the tree represents in your analogy?
Sure stops re-offending,
Except in the all-too-common case when the Organs of the State kill the wrong person.
As for the deterrent effect: Texas has the death penalty and has for a long time, and the State of Texas is aggressive about killing people on Death Row. Texas has one of the highest murder rates in the US.
North Dakota does not have the death penalty, and as far as I know never has. It has one of the lowest murder rates in the US.
Anyone who is not batshit insane will look at those facts and ask, "What is it about North Dakota that keeps the murder rate so low, and what can we do to make Texas more like that?" Instead, ideological idiots distract everyone from the debate with their data-free imaginings.
Texas has the second highest population of the US states and North Dakota is the second lowest.
Population of Texas: 24,326,974
Pop. of North Dakota: 641,481
So we should just execute 23.5 million people, or so, in Texas and the problem's solved. Oh, and maybe carve some presidents faces in a mountain or something in Mexico (since there's no state directly south of Texas) just for good measure.
In short, this sort of thing isn't about making cash, it's about taking yet another small step for mankind. Yes, that requires looking past your lifetime, but that doesn't mean it's not worth doing.
I totally agree with you, unfortunately until you figure out how this can be used to win in the next election cycle it's just not going to happen any time soon.
... they also make a DVD player that lasts 1000 years?
At $4995 for the burner it better last 1K years too.
... what happened to 3com. Some of us remember "back in the day" when 3com was one of the top brands for network cards (3c503 or 3c509 anyone?). Then their cards disappeared from the market some years ago, apparently they decided to focus on other areas. I guess it isn't a huge surprise that they would become a target for acquisition.
That's ancient history. My most recent memory of 3com is a 3C16470 switch that needed to be power cycled on a weekly basis.
Anyone who watches Star Trek knows that any time you want to solve technical problems or achieve new developments, all you need to do is reverse the polarity or invert the phase.
You forgot to reroute through the main deflector.