Ok, so we've moved from 'it's a myth' to 'it's a stupid law that people ignore,' yes? I'd assume that the Victoria Police aren't 'utterly clueless' about the law, but I could certainly be mistaken. Another official government reference to plastic knives being considered a controlled weapon and unavailable for sale to minors.
The Age article I have no idea if this is considered a legitimate news source in Australia or not.
Picture of plastic knives requiring ID to purchase
Sidebar: The South Austrailia Police actually refer to a Ka-bar as a 'Marine Core' knife.Somebody is a Farker me thinks.
Sure, there's lots of religiously motivated violence, but then again, there's lots of non-religiously motivated violence.
Somebody who's willing to blow up a building in the name of Allah, God, Jesus, or the FSM is just as likely to blow up that building in the name of freeing the proletariat, exposing the lies of the secret lizard overlords, or whatever. I think that religion is generally an excuse, rather than a causal factor. I could, however, be completely wrong.
Under the new laws it will be illegal for people under 18 to buy any type of knife, including a kitchen knife, or any
other controlled weapon. If they do, they will face a $239 on-the-spot fine or they could face court and a fine of up to
$1,433.
Q: Can I sell any kind of knife to someone under 18? What about kitchen knives or a plastic knife?
A: It's an offence for anyone under 18 to buy any kind of knife, or any other controlled weapon. This includes
kitchen knives, bread and butter knives, box cutters and even plastic knives. If a child needs a knife for a
legitimate reason, such as for work, they will need to get their parent or guardian to purchase the knives for
them. There are no exceptions. If you or one of your staff knowingly sell a knife or other controlled weapon to
a child, you or your staff member can face a fine of up to $2,389.
I'm all for blood tests. Roadside Breathalyzer, on the other hand....
Anecdote time: many years back, late 80s or so, we had some police do some community outreach at my school. Grade five or so. I got to blow in the Breathalyzer. It claimed I was falling down drunk.
These tests are not pseudo science from my understanding, if you have not been drinking they will return that result.
No, not pseudoscience, but a) not necessarily good science, and b) that assumes the Breathalyzers are properly designed, built, maintained, regularly calibrated, used, reported and recorded.
Those are awfully big assumptions to make, especially when so many, like, you, assume that they're infallible magic boxes.
So, to paraphrase, '802.11whatever is a 'listen then talk' protocol, so, logic-ally speaking, if we comment out the 'listen' part of the code, it will just talk, and nothing else will talk! GENIUS!'
Guess what! Ethernet expects only the device who has a given IP to respond to arp requests! If we respond anyway, there will be CHAOS! BWAHAHAHA!
And yet just the other day I read a news article about Australian vendors having trouble with new anti-knife laws passed in the wake of a major upswing in knife crime, after the gun laws reduced gun crime.
For example, needing to card teenagers in order to sell plastic cutlery.
Guess what? Criminals gonna crim. Instead of concentrating on reducing 'gun crime' or 'knife crime,' how about concentrating on reducing crime? Instead of caring about 'gun homicide,' how about reducing homicide? How about identifying and dealing with root causes rather than caring about what tool was used?
Cop: Sir, you are lying across the street.
Guy: Yup.
Cop: You're blocking traffic.
Guy: Yup.
Cop: Please get up and move.
Guy: Nope.
Cop: Damn. Well, we've done all we can. Can't touch him until he touches us. Sir, would you mind touching me?
Guy: Not without dinner and a movie first, sonny Jim.
Sorry, I'm talking Ontario traffic rules; when turning left on a non-advanced green, you advance into the intersection and wait for a break in oncoming traffic to complete the turn.
I think he refers to an old philosophical question. The classic example is 'you're conducting a train. You come around a bend, and there's a track split. One track A is, say, a person. On track B is, say, two people. You don't have time to brake. All you can do is pick which track you take. Which one do you take?
What if Track B has five people? One child? A world-class doctor who saves lives? A scumbag criminal? Your wife?
So, say you're in a self-driving car. The car wants to make a left turn across traffic at a four-way intersection. So it advances into the intersection, stops to wait for a break in oncoming traffic, and waits.
Sensors notice a semi coming up behind you, and not stopping. In front of you is an old person crossing the road. To your right is a kid on a bicycle. To your left is a stead stream of through traffic. Where do you go?
If a wizard suddenly made it impossible for guns to exist in America; they could not pass across any border, the ones inside the country simply turned into nothingness, do you think the rates of assault and murder would instantly go down? Or do you think they'd stay the same, just with different methods?
Say, for example, that ten people are killed per year; five by gun, two by knife, two by baseball bat, and one by strangulation. On Dec 31st, the wizard casts his spell.
What do you think the stats will be one year later? Two by knife, two by baseball bat, and one by strangulation? I don't. I think they'd turn to four by knife, four by baseball bat, and two by strangulation.
Guns are a symptom, not a cause. Unless the root causes in American society are addressed, people will continue to die. The manner of their murder shouldn't even be a point of discussion.
Think about the technology a scientist from a bare fifty years ago, or even thirty, would need to invent, just to be able to BEGIN to work on a sample of wifi communications, or a Blu-ray.
They have to invent the equipment to listen to it, decrypt it, figure out the file formats, and so on. And these technologies are all designed specifically to prevent that.
You assume that a) you'll always be in a situation where you can download things instantly and on demand, and b) that you can decide ahead of time, with perfect accuracy, what you'll need and when.
For example: I bought, and use, the TomTom app for my iPhone, rather than the built-in maps app. One big reason? It's all there, predownloaded. Sure, I'll probably never need, say, the California map. on the other hand, I am safe and secure in the knowledge that, anywhere in North America, I have a reasonably up-to-date and accurate map available to me. I never have to worry about being in the middle of nowhere with crap cellular data, and being unable to load a map.
So basically, it would be exactly like the passage to the New World was, only a) without gravity, b) with far better entertainment and medical options, and c) you can actually phone home.
Think of it as 'taking out the garbage by throwing it out the back window, unless Mom announces that she's watching, in which case you carefully bag it up, walk it out to the garage, and place it into the garbage can, after separating out the compost and recyclables.'
Slashdot Mirror
Ok, so we've moved from 'it's a myth' to 'it's a stupid law that people ignore,' yes? I'd assume that the Victoria Police aren't 'utterly clueless' about the law, but I could certainly be mistaken. Another official government reference to plastic knives being considered a controlled weapon and unavailable for sale to minors.
The Age article I have no idea if this is considered a legitimate news source in Australia or not.
Picture of plastic knives requiring ID to purchase
Sidebar: The South Austrailia Police actually refer to a Ka-bar as a 'Marine Core' knife.Somebody is a Farker me thinks.
Sure, there's lots of religiously motivated violence, but then again, there's lots of non-religiously motivated violence.
Somebody who's willing to blow up a building in the name of Allah, God, Jesus, or the FSM is just as likely to blow up that building in the name of freeing the proletariat, exposing the lies of the secret lizard overlords, or whatever. I think that religion is generally an excuse, rather than a causal factor. I could, however, be completely wrong.
This isn't any different from, well, the entire OT, or quite a bit of the NT, including Revelations.
Well, to be honest, we were just all tacitly ignoring the idea that you can measure, you know, BLOOD alcohol level without drawing blood.
How about a state police bulletin on the subject? New Weapons Laws 2010
I'm all for blood tests. Roadside Breathalyzer, on the other hand....
Anecdote time: many years back, late 80s or so, we had some police do some community outreach at my school. Grade five or so. I got to blow in the Breathalyzer. It claimed I was falling down drunk.
No, not pseudoscience, but a) not necessarily good science, and b) that assumes the Breathalyzers are properly designed, built, maintained, regularly calibrated, used, reported and recorded.
Those are awfully big assumptions to make, especially when so many, like, you, assume that they're infallible magic boxes.
Breathalizer source code analysis. Slashdot discussion thereof
So, to paraphrase, '802.11whatever is a 'listen then talk' protocol, so, logic-ally speaking, if we comment out the 'listen' part of the code, it will just talk, and nothing else will talk! GENIUS!'
Guess what! Ethernet expects only the device who has a given IP to respond to arp requests! If we respond anyway, there will be CHAOS! BWAHAHAHA!
Si vis pacem, para bellum.
And yet just the other day I read a news article about Australian vendors having trouble with new anti-knife laws passed in the wake of a major upswing in knife crime, after the gun laws reduced gun crime.
For example, needing to card teenagers in order to sell plastic cutlery.
Guess what? Criminals gonna crim. Instead of concentrating on reducing 'gun crime' or 'knife crime,' how about concentrating on reducing crime? Instead of caring about 'gun homicide,' how about reducing homicide? How about identifying and dealing with root causes rather than caring about what tool was used?
Cop: Sir, you are lying across the street.
Guy: Yup.
Cop: You're blocking traffic. Guy: Yup.
Cop: Please get up and move.
Guy: Nope.
Cop: Damn. Well, we've done all we can. Can't touch him until he touches us. Sir, would you mind touching me?
Guy: Not without dinner and a movie first, sonny Jim.
Sorry, I'm talking Ontario traffic rules; when turning left on a non-advanced green, you advance into the intersection and wait for a break in oncoming traffic to complete the turn.
I think he refers to an old philosophical question.
The classic example is 'you're conducting a train. You come around a bend, and there's a track split. One track A is, say, a person. On track B is, say, two people. You don't have time to brake. All you can do is pick which track you take. Which one do you take?
What if Track B has five people? One child? A world-class doctor who saves lives? A scumbag criminal? Your wife?
So, say you're in a self-driving car. The car wants to make a left turn across traffic at a four-way intersection. So it advances into the intersection, stops to wait for a break in oncoming traffic, and waits.
Sensors notice a semi coming up behind you, and not stopping. In front of you is an old person crossing the road. To your right is a kid on a bicycle. To your left is a stead stream of through traffic. Where do you go?
Yes, but the spoons have been ground down to sharp points.
Seriously, though, this is awesome. I seem to recall that getting educated in prison is one of the best ways to avoid future prison time.
Sorry we hosed up your Standard Model, eh.
Hey, they could have gone with Ricardo Montelbon or Benedict Cumberbatch, so we're already ahead.
General Image Lossless Format?
World War 2: Loss of Life Visualized
If a wizard suddenly made it impossible for guns to exist in America; they could not pass across any border, the ones inside the country simply turned into nothingness, do you think the rates of assault and murder would instantly go down? Or do you think they'd stay the same, just with different methods?
Say, for example, that ten people are killed per year; five by gun, two by knife, two by baseball bat, and one by strangulation. On Dec 31st, the wizard casts his spell.
What do you think the stats will be one year later? Two by knife, two by baseball bat, and one by strangulation? I don't. I think they'd turn to four by knife, four by baseball bat, and two by strangulation.
Guns are a symptom, not a cause. Unless the root causes in American society are addressed, people will continue to die. The manner of their murder shouldn't even be a point of discussion.
Think about the technology a scientist from a bare fifty years ago, or even thirty, would need to invent, just to be able to BEGIN to work on a sample of wifi communications, or a Blu-ray.
They have to invent the equipment to listen to it, decrypt it, figure out the file formats, and so on. And these technologies are all designed specifically to prevent that.
You assume that a) you'll always be in a situation where you can download things instantly and on demand, and b) that you can decide ahead of time, with perfect accuracy, what you'll need and when.
For example: I bought, and use, the TomTom app for my iPhone, rather than the built-in maps app. One big reason? It's all there, predownloaded. Sure, I'll probably never need, say, the California map. on the other hand, I am safe and secure in the knowledge that, anywhere in North America, I have a reasonably up-to-date and accurate map available to me. I never have to worry about being in the middle of nowhere with crap cellular data, and being unable to load a map.
So get both worlds by using both. Use your local storage applicance for speed, and have it back up to the cloud on it's own time.
That would explain why all of the New World colonies were so successful. Vinland, Jamestown; yup. Stepped off the boats and sat down for a feast.
So basically, it would be exactly like the passage to the New World was, only a) without gravity, b) with far better entertainment and medical options, and c) you can actually phone home.
Think of it as 'taking out the garbage by throwing it out the back window, unless Mom announces that she's watching, in which case you carefully bag it up, walk it out to the garage, and place it into the garbage can, after separating out the compost and recyclables.'