As for your logic, back away, before you even start on the opposing forces in this Greenie Vs Anti-Greenie situation, this is slashdot. Unless your logic comes in the form of a car analogy, it might well be lost in your words.
Personally I prefer the term "Paver" to "Anti-Greenie". Plus this sort of fulfills the car analogy logic you mention.
Better yet, just claim that you have things set up so your camera automatically uploads all photos to the Internet and so deleting them will do no good.
Accept for in the case of the Women on the Jet Blue flight. Admitting that you are knowingly operating a wireless device on a plane while in flight would probably be a bad idea. I can't say I ever saw anyone charged for it, though I believe it is a federal offense. If you're already in a pissing match with the flight attendants with the way things are these days, I'm not sure it's worth the potential legal hassles. At the very least you could get black listed.
The most benign project I've seen is to attempt to spur plankton growth by seedy the oceans with iron.
I actually thought that was a pretty decent experiment since it would most likely be a slow run up to the growth of the plankton, there would be time to modify it before we found ourselves in an ice age.
Can you provide a link? I'm asking because my initial thought is that iron would be more likely to accelerate growth of the wrong kind of algae (presumably the thought is to boost phytoplankton levels) or worse, cyanobacteria.
You can probably find an OK mouse from under $10.00 It will probably be mechanical (mouse ball moves a 2 wheel where there are 2 contacts per wheel and its pattern of contact 1 and 2 makes it decide where the mouse is going) and last 4 years. Or the Mouse that works great except for at 4:00pm in the afternoon where the afternoon Sun goes threw the windows at the correct angle threw the mouse buttons and floods the optical sensors. Or you can find a simple 2 button mouse no wheel, that glides nicely with the ball, and is just a work horse, you just need to clean the junk out every 3 months.
I don't doubt that you can still get a mechanical mouse but I have to say that I haven't seen one in years, let alone a new one. I just assumed that the electronic components for optical mice have become cheaper than what they are for a mechanical one. I typically attend a dozen medical conferences per year and there are always at least two vendors that are giving away mice and they've always been optical. The last couple of times there were nice little wireless ones that had a push button to release the receiver from a spring loaded compartment.
A lawsuit @ Nintendo because someone (or rather, plural someones) was (were) dumb enough to toss a remote hard enough to crack a television set!?...
Seriously.
WTF?
I'll admit that I didn't read the article, nor have I ever held a Wii remote. But depending on the type of TV, it's certainly plausible. I don't think anything short of a hammer could break my 10 year old Trinitron screen. But the screen on my LCD is a different story I think. I don't believe the screen on a plasma would fair much better, and a rear projection screen would fair pretty bad as well. I do agree with you about the stupidity of the lawsuit though.
Yeah! I didn't read the article or the summary and I can tell you I have the following strong opinion: There's no need for breathalizers for computers because if I pour alochol onto my computer it would short out.
And to my knowledge, in the US search warrants usually have to specify what in particular they're looking for and where they're looking.
Times may have changed, but years ago I remember some friends in law enforcement told me something that I found interesting. They said that when in doubt it was better to get a warrant for drugs because it pretty much gave them carte blanche and anything that was found would be admissible.
In a serious nuclear war you can get a lot more material into the air than that. Here is some very recent analysis on the subject, using one of the latest climate models. (Try this paper and this one.) This research group also does work on volcanic events, which the model's response has been tested on. They find that even a regional Indian-Pakistan exchange, each country using 50 Hiroshima-sized bombs, can have pretty significant global climate impacts (almost 1.5 C cooling).
Hmm... I think we may have discovered the solution to global warming.
Yep, the only reason the police tell someone their 5th amendment rights is to make sure they don't confess to things they don't have to due to fear of authority reprisal. If you don't know the individual is police, there is no possible way you think they'll put you in jail for not telling them something.
I guess you think that any evidence gathered by an undercover officer is a violation of the 5th amendment and should not be admissible either.
Wow good link. I find this surprising in that I was always told that once you are in the parking lot, the security for the store wont do anything and call the police on you. The security weren't even allowed to leave the building in case of a grab 'n dash. I know a couple people who shoplifted frequently a few years ago and walmarts and targets, they were never caught, but they were also under the impression that security wont leave the building to snatch up a shoplifter.
I worked for security (Loss Prevention) at Walmart when I was younger and I can tell you that you and your friends couldn't be more wrong. We usually apprehended in the parking lot as it leaves no doubt about passing the last point of purchase when it comes time to go to court. Plus when someone resisted or tried to run we didn't have to worry about making a scene in the store. As an added bonus, it is much more satisfying to slam someone onto an asphalt parking lot than a tile floor. However once you are out of the parking lot you are no longer on the stores property so a store employee no longer has any authority. The official laws in most states will say you're free. In reality if security chooses to give chase and catches you the court will treat it the same as if you were caught on the property.
Well they won't keep making recreations of NES era games when nobody remembers NES anymore. They'll make recreations of newer games that people still remember playing as a kid.
I'm not sure I agree with you. My 5 year old really enjoys Atari 2600 games as well as Pac-man and other old arcade games. There's something to be said about the simplicity of many of the older games. She also loves playing Spore, so it's not like she can only handle simple games.
When I get a bad Cheesburger, I don't blame the Server, I dont blame the Cook, I don't blame the store manager. No I blame Ronald. He is the figurehead that represents everthing about McDonalds so he is to blame. Also, when I get nice tasty fresh fries, he gets my high-five.
When the Government is out of control, the President is accountable. Just like Ronald.
So instead of faulting anyone who had a hand in the making of your cheeseburger, you place the blame solely on a fictional clown that was invented by marketing people? That's an interesting philosophy you have.
like asking a workman whether a new hammer would make his job any more profitable. That doesn't mean it's not an investment anyway.
Yes, if the new hammer improves ergonomics to the point where the workman can do more work in less time, or the old hammer was so non-ergonomic it was going to cost him dearly in medical bills late in life, profit is not necessarily going to be immediately measurable in dollars.
Eventually, though, the money spent on the new hammer might pay off in happier children (Dad has more time for his kids) or a happier retirement (Dad does not have a useless right arm at age 70). I'd consider that a good investment, myself.
If you go to a construction site an find a worker using a hammer to actually drive in nails in the US, you better start looking for a blue police box or something. Pneumatic nail guns have replaced the hammer for this long ago.
"But a standalone fact is that racism is indeed terrorism. When you call a Black person "nigger", you are referring to a long history of abuse, often lethal (and worse) of Black people. You are saying it to terrorize them. Not just personally, but as part of a whole group of people that you are trying to intimidate. That's an instance of using threats for political effects: suppressing Black people by singling one out as a representative of all Black people, then attacking them as that representative."
No, it's a word and nothing more. I'm so tired of of this one in particular. The media and just about the entire US is starting to sound like a bunch of little school children by constantly reffering to it as "The 'N' word". How is it that the word "Nigger" has become so offensive that it's no longer PC to say it when it's not even being used in a derogatory manner. It's not even acceptable to say it even when explaining how ignorant a person or group is for using it. (E g. I can't believe that women called my friend a nigger!) However if you are black, it is perfectly acceptable to refer to other "black" people as, "Nigga". What the fuck is that about! It's either offensive or it's not. You can't "reclaim" word simply by changing the way it's spelled. It's either a new word, or you're accepting it as being non-offensive. Furthermore, shouldn't it be considered racist to have a word that only a certain race is allowed to use? If "nigga" is supposed to be some way of making the term acceptable, then everyone should be free to use it. I've had idiots call me by stereo-typical racial terms many times in my life and frankly I just don't care. To me it's simply a word and has not power over me unless I choose to give it such. I just don't get why so many people allow this kind of stupidity to bother them. In doing so, it simply encourages it.
"Crows have been observed making tools and using them.
Birds are in general a lot smarter than we've given them credit for. It might be time to rethink the term 'bird brain'."
Agreed. When I was a kid I found a crow with an injured wing and brought it home. After it's wing healed (or should have been at least)my mother wanted me to let it go. When I took it outside and it would not fly and would only hop around on the ground with it's wing extended like it was still broken. As the months went by it would let it's wing hang like it was broken anytime my mother said it needed to go. Finally after over a year of this, she tossed him out the third story window and he of course flew. It took him all of a day to figure out that ringing the door bell would get us to open the door and he would fly into the house from a tree he waited on after ringing it.
As far as birds recognizing themselves, I would not have thought this unusual as I had a friend years ago that had a blue front amazon parrot. It would stand on the fireplace mantel and look in the mirror while telling himself (by name) that he was a pretty bird.
Where do you suggest they go to get "proper training" for a motorized office chair?;-)
Since they were using it on the streets, they could start by getting a driving license like everyone else that operates a motorized method of transport in public.
Now I am not sure about this, but I think in Germany you can't get a drivers license until you are 18 (and they were 17). Ironically, it probably would be safer for these guys to be driving a car on the streets than that contraption they built.
I am all for inventing things like that and having fun with it - but on private property where they can only hurt themselves and their own property not other people if something happens to go wrong.
I don't know what the laws are like in Germany for something like this. I remember years ago mopeds had small enough engines that they did not require a license in many states. Granted that has probably changed by now. Of course it used to be OK to drive a go-kart on the streets in many areas when I was a kid too. Where I live now it was fine for kids to drive those motorized scooters around w/o a license as well. I haven't seen too many this summer though. My guess is that that had to do more with the noise if there has been a law passed for those.
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As for your logic, back away, before you even start on the opposing forces in this Greenie Vs Anti-Greenie situation, this is slashdot. Unless your logic comes in the form of a car analogy, it might well be lost in your words.
Personally I prefer the term "Paver" to "Anti-Greenie". Plus this sort of fulfills the car analogy logic you mention.
http://www.geocities.com/SouthBeach/1380/pave.html
THE CREED (tm) of the PAVERS (traditional version)
We believe in a completely Paved Earth.
Earth is cursed with trees, shrubs, grass,
and scurrying creatures. With every breath
We act to right this terrible wrong.
We believe in The Plan (tm).
The Plan (tm) is the final word; it brings us
the knowledge of the twin pleasures:
Speed and Convenience.
We believe food should be enjoyed.
"Nutrition" is an aberration of human nature.
The juicy Burger and hearty Beer are Our sacrament.
We believe in the Depletion of scarce natural resources.
Some see the vessel as half full; others see it as
half-empty; We pour it out on the floor and laugh.
We believe in a sky roiling with Smog.
The color blue should appear nowhere but the paint
on Our HyperCars (tm).
Better yet, just claim that you have things set up so your camera automatically uploads all photos to the Internet and so deleting them will do no good.
Accept for in the case of the Women on the Jet Blue flight. Admitting that you are knowingly operating a wireless device on a plane while in flight would probably be a bad idea. I can't say I ever saw anyone charged for it, though I believe it is a federal offense. If you're already in a pissing match with the flight attendants with the way things are these days, I'm not sure it's worth the potential legal hassles. At the very least you could get black listed.
The most benign project I've seen is to attempt to spur plankton growth by seedy the oceans with iron.
I actually thought that was a pretty decent experiment since it would most likely be a slow run up to the growth of the plankton, there would be time to modify it before we found ourselves in an ice age.
Can you provide a link? I'm asking because my initial thought is that iron would be more likely to accelerate growth of the wrong kind of algae (presumably the thought is to boost phytoplankton levels) or worse, cyanobacteria.
Well, we all know Vets are smarter than people doctors -- after all, the dog can't tell the doctor where it hurts.
Actually it's more than that. They also have to deal with the anatomy of more than just one species.
It dosent matter what browser replaces it, but version 6 still has enough market share to be annoying.
IE 6 is obsolete. If you know anyone with IE6, upgrade them so the web 2.0 can really mean 2.0 and not 2.0 "beta".
Yes, please upgrade my Windows 2K systems to IE7.
You can probably find an OK mouse from under $10.00 It will probably be mechanical (mouse ball moves a 2 wheel where there are 2 contacts per wheel and its pattern of contact 1 and 2 makes it decide where the mouse is going) and last 4 years. Or the Mouse that works great except for at 4:00pm in the afternoon where the afternoon Sun goes threw the windows at the correct angle threw the mouse buttons and floods the optical sensors. Or you can find a simple 2 button mouse no wheel, that glides nicely with the ball, and is just a work horse, you just need to clean the junk out every 3 months.
I don't doubt that you can still get a mechanical mouse but I have to say that I haven't seen one in years, let alone a new one. I just assumed that the electronic components for optical mice have become cheaper than what they are for a mechanical one. I typically attend a dozen medical conferences per year and there are always at least two vendors that are giving away mice and they've always been optical. The last couple of times there were nice little wireless ones that had a push button to release the receiver from a spring loaded compartment.
A lawsuit @ Nintendo because someone (or rather, plural someones) was (were) dumb enough to toss a remote hard enough to crack a television set!?...
Seriously.
WTF?
I'll admit that I didn't read the article, nor have I ever held a Wii remote. But depending on the type of TV, it's certainly plausible. I don't think anything short of a hammer could break my 10 year old Trinitron screen. But the screen on my LCD is a different story I think. I don't believe the screen on a plasma would fair much better, and a rear projection screen would fair pretty bad as well. I do agree with you about the stupidity of the lawsuit though.
Yeah! I didn't read the article or the summary and I can tell you I have the following strong opinion: There's no need for breathalizers for computers because if I pour alochol onto my computer it would short out.
Either that or attain sentience.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0087197/synopsis
And to my knowledge, in the US search warrants usually have to specify what in particular they're looking for and where they're looking.
Times may have changed, but years ago I remember some friends in law enforcement told me something that I found interesting. They said that when in doubt it was better to get a warrant for drugs because it pretty much gave them carte blanche and anything that was found would be admissible.
In a serious nuclear war you can get a lot more material into the air than that. Here is some very recent analysis on the subject, using one of the latest climate models. (Try this paper and this one.) This research group also does work on volcanic events, which the model's response has been tested on. They find that even a regional Indian-Pakistan exchange, each country using 50 Hiroshima-sized bombs, can have pretty significant global climate impacts (almost 1.5 C cooling).
Hmm... I think we may have discovered the solution to global warming.
Yep, the only reason the police tell someone their 5th amendment rights is to make sure they don't confess to things they don't have to due to fear of authority reprisal. If you don't know the individual is police, there is no possible way you think they'll put you in jail for not telling them something.
I guess you think that any evidence gathered by an undercover officer is a violation of the 5th amendment and should not be admissible either.
Yes, life imitates art. 24 is about 35 years too young for it to be vice versa.
Actually it is vice-versa in this case, or I just came down with a bad case of dyslexia.
...you know what a Phoenix does when it dies, right?
rj
Now that you mention it, maybe it's no coincidence that Martian soil looks like cinnamon.
Wow good link. I find this surprising in that I was always told that once you are in the parking lot, the security for the store wont do anything and call the police on you. The security weren't even allowed to leave the building in case of a grab 'n dash. I know a couple people who shoplifted frequently a few years ago and walmarts and targets, they were never caught, but they were also under the impression that security wont leave the building to snatch up a shoplifter.
I worked for security (Loss Prevention) at Walmart when I was younger and I can tell you that you and your friends couldn't be more wrong. We usually apprehended in the parking lot as it leaves no doubt about passing the last point of purchase when it comes time to go to court. Plus when someone resisted or tried to run we didn't have to worry about making a scene in the store. As an added bonus, it is much more satisfying to slam someone onto an asphalt parking lot than a tile floor. However once you are out of the parking lot you are no longer on the stores property so a store employee no longer has any authority. The official laws in most states will say you're free. In reality if security chooses to give chase and catches you the court will treat it the same as if you were caught on the property.
Preventing people like acting like pricks? Someone has to design the crowd control system, you know.
I believe that tear gas will take care of both of those.
Well they won't keep making recreations of NES era games when nobody remembers NES anymore. They'll make recreations of newer games that people still remember playing as a kid.
I'm not sure I agree with you. My 5 year old really enjoys Atari 2600 games as well as Pac-man and other old arcade games. There's something to be said about the simplicity of many of the older games. She also loves playing Spore, so it's not like she can only handle simple games.
Bush is like Ronald McDonald.
When I get a bad Cheesburger, I don't blame the Server, I dont blame the Cook, I don't blame the store manager. No I blame Ronald. He is the figurehead that represents everthing about McDonalds so he is to blame. Also, when I get nice tasty fresh fries, he gets my high-five.
When the Government is out of control, the President is accountable. Just like Ronald.
So instead of faulting anyone who had a hand in the making of your cheeseburger, you place the blame solely on a fictional clown that was invented by marketing people? That's an interesting philosophy you have.
Maybe it's resource intensive at the tower? I really don't know.
It's just that we get 22000 messages for around 2 USD equivalent here in India.
Dammit, why can't my provider outsource their towers instead of their call center!
Perhaps they should re-evaluate their slogan of, "Less talk, more action" in their IT security meetings.
Well, he is the bigger evil. The bigger and the better evil(I mean, he could be the devil's great-great-grandfather).
That's why he gets my vote. Because Obama is a lesser evil and I don't like to vote for lesser.
If you take that thought to it's conclusion, I believe you'll find a preferable candidate here: http://www.cthulhu.org/
like asking a workman whether a new hammer would make his job any more profitable. That doesn't mean it's not an investment anyway.
Yes, if the new hammer improves ergonomics to the point where the workman can do more work in less time, or the old hammer was so non-ergonomic it was going to cost him dearly in medical bills late in life, profit is not necessarily going to be immediately measurable in dollars.
Eventually, though, the money spent on the new hammer might pay off in happier children (Dad has more time for his kids) or a happier retirement (Dad does not have a useless right arm at age 70). I'd consider that a good investment, myself.
If you go to a construction site an find a worker using a hammer to actually drive in nails in the US, you better start looking for a blue police box or something. Pneumatic nail guns have replaced the hammer for this long ago.
"But a standalone fact is that racism is indeed terrorism. When you call a Black person "nigger", you are referring to a long history of abuse, often lethal (and worse) of Black people. You are saying it to terrorize them. Not just personally, but as part of a whole group of people that you are trying to intimidate. That's an instance of using threats for political effects: suppressing Black people by singling one out as a representative of all Black people, then attacking them as that representative."
No, it's a word and nothing more. I'm so tired of of this one in particular. The media and just about the entire US is starting to sound like a bunch of little school children by constantly reffering to it as "The 'N' word". How is it that the word "Nigger" has become so offensive that it's no longer PC to say it when it's not even being used in a derogatory manner. It's not even acceptable to say it even when explaining how ignorant a person or group is for using it. (E g. I can't believe that women called my friend a nigger!) However if you are black, it is perfectly acceptable to refer to other "black" people as, "Nigga". What the fuck is that about! It's either offensive or it's not. You can't "reclaim" word simply by changing the way it's spelled. It's either a new word, or you're accepting it as being non-offensive. Furthermore, shouldn't it be considered racist to have a word that only a certain race is allowed to use? If "nigga" is supposed to be some way of making the term acceptable, then everyone should be free to use it. I've had idiots call me by stereo-typical racial terms many times in my life and frankly I just don't care. To me it's simply a word and has not power over me unless I choose to give it such. I just don't get why so many people allow this kind of stupidity to bother them. In doing so, it simply encourages it.
Agreed. When I was a kid I found a crow with an injured wing and brought it home. After it's wing healed (or should have been at least)my mother wanted me to let it go. When I took it outside and it would not fly and would only hop around on the ground with it's wing extended like it was still broken. As the months went by it would let it's wing hang like it was broken anytime my mother said it needed to go. Finally after over a year of this, she tossed him out the third story window and he of course flew. It took him all of a day to figure out that ringing the door bell would get us to open the door and he would fly into the house from a tree he waited on after ringing it. As far as birds recognizing themselves, I would not have thought this unusual as I had a friend years ago that had a blue front amazon parrot. It would stand on the fireplace mantel and look in the mirror while telling himself (by name) that he was a pretty bird.
Since they were using it on the streets, they could start by getting a driving license like everyone else that operates a motorized method of transport in public.
Now I am not sure about this, but I think in Germany you can't get a drivers license until you are 18 (and they were 17). Ironically, it probably would be safer for these guys to be driving a car on the streets than that contraption they built.
I am all for inventing things like that and having fun with it - but on private property where they can only hurt themselves and their own property not other people if something happens to go wrong.
I don't know what the laws are like in Germany for something like this. I remember years ago mopeds had small enough engines that they did not require a license in many states. Granted that has probably changed by now. Of course it used to be OK to drive a go-kart on the streets in many areas when I was a kid too. Where I live now it was fine for kids to drive those motorized scooters around w/o a license as well. I haven't seen too many this summer though. My guess is that that had to do more with the noise if there has been a law passed for those.
Where do you suggest they go to get "proper training" for a motorized office chair? ;-)