The computer would also act as a home search box, it'd index all accessible data sources - network drives, etc. The file browser would give you a simple interface to all of these, again in a document centric manner.
Right, because we all know he average WalMart shopper has a LAN at home and just can't figure out where that midget porn went.
In history we teach kids that people thought the world was once flat, then show evidence that says that idea is wrong.
In chemistry we teach them that people once practised alchemy, then show evidence that that idea was wrong.
We teach the old "plum" model for atoms, then show evidence that that idea was wrong.
I don't see how you can teach biology while omitting the idea that for the longest time almost every culture assumed life came entirely from a super natural being.
Actually, it's pretty easy to say, take a look at any lawless place, like say Iraq,
Invalid... there's still laws in Iraq about killing people. It might look like anarchy on the news, but there's still some semblence of government there.
It's already pretty broad. From Section 802 of the original PATRIOT ACT:
`(5) the term `domestic terrorism' means activities that-- `(A) involve acts dangerous to human life that are a violation of the criminal laws of the United States or of any State; `(B) appear to be intended-- `(i) to intimidate or coerce a civilian population; `(ii) to influence the policy of a government by intimidation or coercion; or `(iii) to affect the conduct of a government by mass destruction, assassination, or kidnapping; and `(C) occur primarily within the territorial jurisdiction of the United States.'.
Bloggers tend to link to the work of real reporters, then offer comments, or worse, just repeat rumors as fact. At best, they are information scavengers, feeding on the facts hunted down by others.
Even worse is when you get the guys that just link to articles with a short summary and let people open up in the comments on that particular blog post.
You know, kinda like Slashdot.:)
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I am, of course, specifically talking about the good ol' US of A. When this killer flu arrives in the US, we all know the government isn't going to step in like some of the Asian governments.
Actually.. the US government -IS- going to step in. There are bills out there that wish to innoculate the population against this "killer" disease, however given that it's the weekend, and I'm tired, I'm unable to recall the specific House bills out there.
Trust me, they're there, and the government WANTS them to pass. They looooove to protect you.
I'm skeptical. I'm not exactly kosher with the idea of the government jabbing a needle into me For My Own good when there's like, what, 80 people that have died from this thing across the world?
Look, I could afford the thing quite easily. I'm not taking it. No way, no how.
All 3 were following the same rules as this bill. This bill was the only one shot down. The ones that passed: HR 4061 (Department of Veterans Affairs Information Technology Mangement Improvement Act) and HR 1691 (John H. Bradley Department of Veterans Affairs Outpatient Clinic).
Dirty dirty Republicans... using their trickses to keep bills from passing. Good thing that the evil scheme failed for the other two! Muahahahaha!
Bingo... and sometimes it's the primary artist themselves that block all their content. Garth Brooks, AC/DC, Lez Zepplin, and Bob Seeger com to mind.
Madonna was a very recent addition to iTunes and other digital content providers, as well as Smashing Pumpkins.
Plenty of the "big names" out there have erected their own barries for digital providers. It's not the record company holding them up, it's the actual artists. Some of them require a "special deal" -- it could be money, or it could be special promotion on your delivery system. Fascinating, really, when you're in the thick of it. Amusing even, at times.
Some other artists, I believe Radiohead, refuse to allow you to sell their albums one track at a time. A quick search on iTunes shows that they don't have any of their content (thought they did at one point) and I'd wager it's that band particular rule that has caused them to be removed.
What I find odd is that iTunes is missing artists that I know other people have, so perhaps they're playing the 800 pound gorilla role with the artists and not giving in to special demands?
I don't watch TV, seriously. I still have cable though for those rare times when I do. My youngest brother got me hooked on Smallville, so I watched the DVDs of past seasons. I got turned onto Firefly too... those are the -only- shows I watch. It's nice to have C-SPAN but I can stream that online for nothing.
Oh, did I mention Smallville isn't carried by my cable co and Firefly is off the air? Yeah... still wondering why I have cable.
The only time I turn the TV on for background information/noise? Gun cleaning time, maybe once every week or two if I'm doing my range work like I should be. I flip it to the History Channel and let it roll around in the background.
For what it costs me to keep up my cable bill for a MONTH I could have a whole year of "Mail Call" sitting there on demand if this idea takes off. Friggen sweet!
I like this idea... if we figure your montly cable bill can buy 15 shows a month, by 12 months in a year we've got 180 shows. If we assume a half an hour on average per show, that's 90 hours of television for the same cost. Televison you actually -wanted- to see.
There's no way I can find that much TV I want to watch. Taken another way that's 12 -series- that I could be watching for the same cost.
I'm kinda geeked about this now... it might make the entertainment industry focus on quality rather than quantity.
there is a reason the 223 is being dropped by the military it is a caliber that mostly wounds, not kills
Just a quick note: The US military runs 62 grain steel cored FMJ (Full Metal Jacket) ammo in their guns mostly. I do believe there's also some 55 grain FMJ running about too, but nowhere do they use soft-point bullets.
Very unfortunate.
Don't even get me started about running 9mm handguns with friggen FMJ ammo in them.
You're probably right.. it's intended for situations more like that - but that's not sniping. That is, at least not in my book. When the spotter has to open up with the M-14... you've just turned into a two man team of designated marksmen, not a sniper team.:)
Presumably most snipers hole up in a reasonably secure, hidden vantage point and remain there.
Negative. Snipers do NOT fire from the same location. Now, a sharpshooter might if they're in a fortified location (like in an urban setting) but a sniper out in the wild gets their behind out of the area once they've taken their shot.
Take a gander at the book 'Marine Sniper' some time. It's the story of Carlos Hathcock in Vietnam. There's some pretty amazing tales in there. I'll give one great example.
He was dropped off to take care of a Vietnamese offical in one of his toughest jobs. He knew it was nuts, but took it because if he didn't he knew they'd get some other guy to do it that wasn't as good as him, and the guy would probably die.
The building where the official would be dropped off was about, IIRC, 2800 meters away from the tree line. It was just a big field after that with tall grass. Hathcock knew he'd only have one shot at this, so he had to get in close -- which for him was 800 meters. He spent about 2 days straight crawling through the weeds out there between the tree line to a depression in the field where he could take his shot and then get out parallel to the way he came in and then await extraction.
He took his shot, saw it was a definate hit and then "booked" outta there.. it took him hours and hours to crawl out of there on his belly. You don't just get up and start running, you still have to maintain stealth.
I see you have made a good point, that the CCTV systems can be used to track back from the incident until the time that they entered the subway station, or at least that's how it would play out in NYC I presume. London has a bit of an advantage as they are slathered in CCTV systems above ground and below.
So, yes, you have a point and I will concede that having a total survelience grid helps out of the police when back tracking a crime where the criminal left no traces of themselves by blowing themselves to smitherines.
Ignorant as I may be... doesn't that seem like a very backwards manner in which to gather intelligence? To survey every citizen, law abiding or not, and work backwards from the crime scene? To collect massive amounts of data on people in the hopes that you catch somebody in the act so you can figure out who was behind it?
Keep in mind, Aswat was named as the "mastermind" behind this whole thing before they had the CCTV footage of the guys entering the subway station. Seems like they already named the mastermind, a known terrorist that had dealings with MI6 earlier on without the aid of the CCTV systems. How?
Easy... you keep track of the known terrorists in the world, figure out who they're talking to, and then monitor those people. I find it hard to believe that the intelligence agencies of the USA and the UK are -clueless- about who's behind all this and need CCTV to figure out the chain of command from the bottom up. When you're going from the bottom up -every- citizen is now a suspect. I don't like that. It doesn't make me feel very cozy.
The USA managed to name bin Laden as the "mastermind" beind the 9/11 attacks in the US pretty darned quick. Certainly not enough time to gather up security tapes from airports, identify the potential hijackers, and to draw the lines back to bin Laden. If they did, I sure wasn't told of it.
Don't you also find it very odd that this CCTV system is being proposed so closely to the London bombings? I'd imagine it'd take a while for Lockheed to put together such a bid, or to suite their technology to this particular situation. They had to have been planning this implementation for some time. Government agencies, and their contractors, are not known to be fast acting bodies. This was in the works for a while, and with the London bombings the public will finally accept/fund the program.
If the public accepts this, the total survelience of the subway system, soon we'll see it in other cities, and it will creep out to every street corner. Total survelience, all the time, anytime you leave your house. You will be tracked, monitored, and profiled.
Terrorism is an international matter, and should be handled by the military and intelligence agencies. If they can't do the job, I'll take my risks rather than subject myself to total survelience.
The cameras in London enabled them to identity who the suicide bombers were. If a suicide bomber jumped on a train on the underground in NYC, and blew himself up, we couldn't even figure out who did it!
Good point. Suicide bombers don't leave ANY evidence behind that might clue people into their identity.
Except their body.
The images captured in the London attacks meant the police could find out who they were, where they lived, who they had contact with, where they had travelled, etc etc etc.
No, it only told them what they looked like. They still had to figure out who they were, where they lived, who they had contact with, where they have travelled, etc.
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We also rounded up people of a certain ethnicity and tossed them into camps for a few years.
I'd like to think that we learned some lessons from WWII. Just because we did it back then doesn't make it any more right to do it now.
Indeed.
I just tried getting the streaming stuff to work with C-SPAN and it doesn't work one bit. Damn!
One of the reasons I went to Mac from Linux was the multimedia support. Now I'm stuck with Real Player to watch the Yahoos in the Senate again? Fuck!
Right, because we all know he average WalMart shopper has a LAN at home and just can't figure out where that midget porn went.
In history we teach kids that people thought the world was once flat, then show evidence that says that idea is wrong.
In chemistry we teach them that people once practised alchemy, then show evidence that that idea was wrong.
We teach the old "plum" model for atoms, then show evidence that that idea was wrong.
I don't see how you can teach biology while omitting the idea that for the longest time almost every culture assumed life came entirely from a super natural being.
Well, yeah, but then they wouldn't have been able to install Microsoft Access on it!
Yes, that's actually the backend to their system. A full Access install with all the handy GUI tools to alter the election data right there for you.
Invalid... there's still laws in Iraq about killing people. It might look like anarchy on the news, but there's still some semblence of government there.
You seem to presume that if murder weren't illegal people would run about doing it all the time.
If murder weren't illegal you'd just kill the murderer yourself if they had taken the life of somebody you cared about.
You might actually see a -decrease- in murders. Hard to say.
You know what to do when the automated system breaks.
I don't think I'll ever run Slackware again, but that's where I cut my teeth back in the 3.6 days. I'm quite happy that I did, too.
You know, kinda like Slashdot.
Trust me, they're there, and the government WANTS them to pass. They looooove to protect you.
I'm skeptical. I'm not exactly kosher with the idea of the government jabbing a needle into me For My Own good when there's like, what, 80 people that have died from this thing across the world?
Look, I could afford the thing quite easily. I'm not taking it. No way, no how.
How about ear plugs with ear muffs over the top?
Shooters do it all the time when they pull out some of the really big boomers.
You're making my brain bleed. There were 3 votes on Nov 2, 2005.
http://clerk.house.gov/evs/2005/ROLL_500.asp
All 3 were following the same rules as this bill. This bill was the only one shot down. The ones that passed: HR 4061 (Department of Veterans Affairs Information Technology Mangement Improvement Act) and HR 1691 (John H. Bradley Department of Veterans Affairs Outpatient Clinic).
Dirty dirty Republicans... using their trickses to keep bills from passing. Good thing that the evil scheme failed for the other two! Muahahahaha!
Bingo... and sometimes it's the primary artist themselves that block all their content. Garth Brooks, AC/DC, Lez Zepplin, and Bob Seeger com to mind.
Madonna was a very recent addition to iTunes and other digital content providers, as well as Smashing Pumpkins.
Plenty of the "big names" out there have erected their own barries for digital providers. It's not the record company holding them up, it's the actual artists. Some of them require a "special deal" -- it could be money, or it could be special promotion on your delivery system. Fascinating, really, when you're in the thick of it. Amusing even, at times.
Some other artists, I believe Radiohead, refuse to allow you to sell their albums one track at a time. A quick search on iTunes shows that they don't have any of their content (thought they did at one point) and I'd wager it's that band particular rule that has caused them to be removed.
What I find odd is that iTunes is missing artists that I know other people have, so perhaps they're playing the 800 pound gorilla role with the artists and not giving in to special demands?
Looks like the opinion has started to change, but I'd imagine there's some logistics problems in there too.
Besides all that, FMJ is considered more reliable in a larger variety of weapons.
Good God you're onto something here...
I don't watch TV, seriously. I still have cable though for those rare times when I do. My youngest brother got me hooked on Smallville, so I watched the DVDs of past seasons. I got turned onto Firefly too... those are the -only- shows I watch. It's nice to have C-SPAN but I can stream that online for nothing.
Oh, did I mention Smallville isn't carried by my cable co and Firefly is off the air? Yeah... still wondering why I have cable.
The only time I turn the TV on for background information/noise? Gun cleaning time, maybe once every week or two if I'm doing my range work like I should be. I flip it to the History Channel and let it roll around in the background.
For what it costs me to keep up my cable bill for a MONTH I could have a whole year of "Mail Call" sitting there on demand if this idea takes off. Friggen sweet!
I like this idea... if we figure your montly cable bill can buy 15 shows a month, by 12 months in a year we've got 180 shows. If we assume a half an hour on average per show, that's 90 hours of television for the same cost. Televison you actually -wanted- to see.
There's no way I can find that much TV I want to watch. Taken another way that's 12 -series- that I could be watching for the same cost.
I'm kinda geeked about this now... it might make the entertainment industry focus on quality rather than quantity.
Very unfortunate.
Don't even get me started about running 9mm handguns with friggen FMJ ammo in them.
You're probably right.. it's intended for situations more like that - but that's not sniping. That is, at least not in my book. When the spotter has to open up with the M-14... you've just turned into a two man team of designated marksmen, not a sniper team. :)
Negative. Snipers do NOT fire from the same location. Now, a sharpshooter might if they're in a fortified location (like in an urban setting) but a sniper out in the wild gets their behind out of the area once they've taken their shot.
Take a gander at the book 'Marine Sniper' some time. It's the story of Carlos Hathcock in Vietnam. There's some pretty amazing tales in there. I'll give one great example.
He was dropped off to take care of a Vietnamese offical in one of his toughest jobs. He knew it was nuts, but took it because if he didn't he knew they'd get some other guy to do it that wasn't as good as him, and the guy would probably die.
The building where the official would be dropped off was about, IIRC, 2800 meters away from the tree line. It was just a big field after that with tall grass. Hathcock knew he'd only have one shot at this, so he had to get in close -- which for him was 800 meters. He spent about 2 days straight crawling through the weeds out there between the tree line to a depression in the field where he could take his shot and then get out parallel to the way he came in and then await extraction.
He took his shot, saw it was a definate hit and then "booked" outta there.. it took him hours and hours to crawl out of there on his belly. You don't just get up and start running, you still have to maintain stealth.
Finally... solid proof that God exists.
Touche.
I see you have made a good point, that the CCTV systems can be used to track back from the incident until the time that they entered the subway station, or at least that's how it would play out in NYC I presume. London has a bit of an advantage as they are slathered in CCTV systems above ground and below.
So, yes, you have a point and I will concede that having a total survelience grid helps out of the police when back tracking a crime where the criminal left no traces of themselves by blowing themselves to smitherines.
Ignorant as I may be... doesn't that seem like a very backwards manner in which to gather intelligence? To survey every citizen, law abiding or not, and work backwards from the crime scene? To collect massive amounts of data on people in the hopes that you catch somebody in the act so you can figure out who was behind it?
Keep in mind, Aswat was named as the "mastermind" behind this whole thing before they had the CCTV footage of the guys entering the subway station. Seems like they already named the mastermind, a known terrorist that had dealings with MI6 earlier on without the aid of the CCTV systems. How?
Easy... you keep track of the known terrorists in the world, figure out who they're talking to, and then monitor those people. I find it hard to believe that the intelligence agencies of the USA and the UK are -clueless- about who's behind all this and need CCTV to figure out the chain of command from the bottom up. When you're going from the bottom up -every- citizen is now a suspect. I don't like that. It doesn't make me feel very cozy.
The USA managed to name bin Laden as the "mastermind" beind the 9/11 attacks in the US pretty darned quick. Certainly not enough time to gather up security tapes from airports, identify the potential hijackers, and to draw the lines back to bin Laden. If they did, I sure wasn't told of it.
Don't you also find it very odd that this CCTV system is being proposed so closely to the London bombings? I'd imagine it'd take a while for Lockheed to put together such a bid, or to suite their technology to this particular situation. They had to have been planning this implementation for some time. Government agencies, and their contractors, are not known to be fast acting bodies. This was in the works for a while, and with the London bombings the public will finally accept/fund the program.
If the public accepts this, the total survelience of the subway system, soon we'll see it in other cities, and it will creep out to every street corner. Total survelience, all the time, anytime you leave your house. You will be tracked, monitored, and profiled.
Terrorism is an international matter, and should be handled by the military and intelligence agencies. If they can't do the job, I'll take my risks rather than subject myself to total survelience.
Good point. Suicide bombers don't leave ANY evidence behind that might clue people into their identity.
Except their body.
No, it only told them what they looked like. They still had to figure out who they were, where they lived, who they had contact with, where they have travelled, etc.
You're being lied to. Wake up.