Except for the part where the police told Zimmerman to observe and not interfere. He had already called the cops for the kid being "suspicious" but doesn't seem to have stated ANY ACTUAL LAW that would justify the police driving over.
I still haven't heard any argument that the suspect THREATENED any person (protecting property does not count as self defense) PRIOR to Zimmerman confronting him... Again, after the police told him NOT to cause a confrontation. And it wasn't even "his" property, it was the STREET where the incident occurred.
this is the trouble with the "stand your ground" laws. They basically mean you can start a fight as long as the other person is mad enough, then you can shoot them. The kid was a minor, and no weapons were reported. The man had an SUV and a handgun... Calling a fistfight "self defense" is a stretch at best. But the law TAKES AWAY the prosecutors ability to ask. This would be murder in many states without that silly law...
And dropping off a severe goat head on somebody's doorstep is just a "present"? Might as well just mail a brown envelope to the guys house with a picture of his daughter with a black "x" in marker... It's just art??
Just remember kids, in certain states protecting your child's reputatution is considered "self defense". Many Western states still make shooting somebody that defames you in the bar only a misdemeanor. Talk about "hold your ground laws"!
Why do you think Apple keeps so few SKUs? The only need 1-2 of each processor and model and they keep the individual parts on hand for upgrades or repairs. Gateway could have worked if they did something similar... Ten different cases should have been their first hint it wasnt going to work.
That is how Sears ruled in their heyday. You could look up in the catalog and they would have the item on the next truck to your town. Had the catalog business not already been dead before 1990 we might have had Sears as our overlords instead of Amazon.
My company is switching to ONLY Blackberries. Except we can't have.......Messenger, because the company std is Lynk/OCS...web browsing, making the phone useless for even checking flights at the airport... Apps are totally locked out... With no rule to even update the default apps.... So they TOOK AWAY modern Android phones, and even the ability to use any device with Active Sync because that exchange component is now "unsecure".
When I don't feel like having two phones, guess who's gets left home??
It also puts some of the users "skin" in the game. If you get banned, then you have to get a new Facebook login too to get back on the site. Those sites don't take kindly to making many fake accounts.
Just keeping the data around is not hard, but expensive. How much of the data is PERSONAL data? Media like movies and songs is pretty easy to replace (for the time being) and if you wanted to back it up, you really only need it once... Something like just putting all your iTunes purchases to a DVD every few months would be enough.
Personal data is more complicated. There are several parts. "the cloud" works for stuff you are using right now. But what tools are available to collect files from computers, or even better collect files from a bunch of disks?
Then how do you skim off all the useless downloads, pref files , etc?
You miss two points. First, nothing has to do with the SUPPLY of oil, the problem OS that it is being HEAVILY used as "hard currency" by investors everywhere. It's the rush to move money in and out of oil that causes most of the price problems.
Second, "gasoline" is really 50+ different products depending on local laws, season, price of ingredients, etc. it's all decided by states (and some cities) so the oil companies have "captured" the regulation on it. Meaning when a refinery gets behind on production, they can't "legally" sell cheaper gas from the next state because it isn't certified. Remember top that gas is bought at "market" price. So YOUR gas station (even though it's all chains) is competing for that gas with some bored millionaire that wants to pad their books this week. In the name of not being "monopolies" the oil companies have arranged it so they don't "own" any oil at all. THEY just get fees for processing it... They don't "set" the price, they just control all the spicots.
I'd say also, we need to jack up the gas taxes more. The highest taxes are only about $.50 a gallon for state and federal taxes. In many places sales tax is higher now. Clearly, the government isn't capturing as much revenue as the market will bear. Then we could have better roads and pad some state budgets. States can do something else to ease fuel for business use... Note that has is LESS expensive than diesel which means that cars are using considerably less since the crash in 08. It also builds incentives for more efficient personal cars.
One could argue that the phone company technically "owns" more of the phone than you do because of subsidies. So in that case, "somebody" has to pay for a new SIM card so the phone company gets a customer.
Although in the USA every boyfriend would be reporting their girlfriends phone "stolen" when she left them and it would be a support nightmare trying to keep it all straight.
God is like the ocean, vast and infinite. Jesus is like an ice sculpture, one physical form at a place and time. The holy spirit is like 2000psi steam, that is invisible, and you can't touch, but you know it's there when a train whistles.
But they are all water.. From the same sea... Not really different at all.
The real problem is that universities act more lola patent trolls than schools now. The publishers cut University-wide deals... So the "best" researchers get everything in the library for free... And the lower students and faculty have to pay in large wads of money.... And the university makes contribution of their coursework to the publisher mandatory... So the publisher has a built in monopoly on getting more stuff.
"TLDR; iFixit is stuck in the past because their business model depends on it. Boo hoo."
Look at it another way... There is enough DEMAND to hang on to devices that their services are needed. And Apple is essentially trying to REFUSE to support the repair process because of a few bucks. It's that attitude that if WE don't feel like supporting something it's WRONG for ANYBODY ELSE to do it too.... That change in society is the bigger problem.
I think you still point out the other side of the issue. Look how FEW parts are actually in there. If the stuff is well-tested then little can really go wrong. When you plan to make twenty million of something, and make it reliable all those little pieces add up.
The main problem is one or long term resource management. The original iPad already has been kicked from the new iPhoto app... When iPad has the same processor as iphone4 and can easily caputre pictures with something like an eye-fi card in your camera. For all the thousands of watts of energy it takes to make this stuff, two years is a little insulting... So Apple is being generous for original owners and will let them slide for another whole year. So what? use a crippled device? Or throw it away? I understand that 90% of the mass of an iPad is glass, battery, and aluminum... Very recyclable. I also know from working in a steel company that 60% of the cost of making a steel part from recycling to machining is ENERGY COST for furnaces, machines, treatments, machining, and a factory to work in.
Places like iFixit make good money keeping devices functional and out of a landfill for another year or three after Apple would want to sell you a new one. The same goes for Linux... Keeping unsupported things working. That companies are starting to use "copyright" to essentially send stuff to the landfill so you face to buy new is the real problem here. We need some exceptions to copyright tha when a company stops supporting a device with upgrades they have to issue a patch to "unlock" the device so modders and repair shops can legally fix them.
Motivation MAKES the crime. A small kid chases a ball in the street and you don't see and kill him, that is an accident. Hit the same kid over the legal limt of alochol it's now YOUR fault because you did not intend to drive safely in the first place.
Shoot your buddy hunting in the woods, that's an accident. Draw a gun on your buddy drinking beers and that's assualt with a deadly weapon.
Think of "bias intimidation" as the same thing as running from the cops. Every single blown stop sign become "intent" to harm the other drivers on the road to save your ass.
This is a fancy way of saying you INTENDED to causing the NEXT situation that did violate the law... Throwing a punch, etc. it's much like "road rage". The LAW expects YOU to go somewhere and deal with your anger issues... Not do stupid passive-agrees sine shit...
And what is Murder? Killing somebody with INTENT to do so. OR causing an UNSAFE condition that is identified in the law. Like drunk driving.
Prior to these laws a common argument was that you know now the act was wrong, but at the time you were "overcome righteous indignation" momma told me being the gays is wrong an they're going to hell and I had to protect myself...that's the argument STILL brought up in most police cases like this...
Hiding a camera, recording video (over multiple days), editing and posting is some SERIOUS intent. And the kid added gay comments on top of that... That adds EXTRA intent to harm THIS person and not just a childish gag.
Take everything else away... The webcam just happend to take a picture of your roommate and his boyfriend. Taken in the pricacy of your dorm room, why would you post that online and not just delete it like an honorable roommate?
And if the roommate took video of the guy bringing a GIRL home instead? As side from still being illegal what would have been the point of that?
But the kid felt the need to record boy-boy... And name names... If the roommate wasn't gay, then it would not have been an "interesting" prank. Right?
"bias intimidation" proves INTENT.. And THAT is one of the key points in US law. For instance auto accidents that kill people are not "illegal"... You drive after drinking and you have just "intended" to disregard the safety of others.
The protection from being spied on (except by the govt) is expremely HIGH in your own home. It is mostly because pervy adult men felt the need to spy on their daughters' friends and such.. of course we hang "sex offender" on you for that, but how is this really different?
The roommate broke that trust making the recording. The comments about being gay and identifying the roommate push this from a "prank" to intent to cause the person HARM because you didn't like their lifestyle choice.
The person hiding the camera, editing the video, and posting it online with the roomate's name INTENDED to do emotional harm... The law says the Intent causes the nexta action to be a felony also.
Of course that list represents your historical chance of being "randomly" accused of a crime and ass-raped by the police.... An establishment (and US GOVERNMENT in general) that is overwhelmingly group #14 (WASP) and feels the need to prove it.
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Except for the part where the police told Zimmerman to observe and not interfere. He had already called the cops for the kid being "suspicious" but doesn't seem to have stated ANY ACTUAL LAW that would justify the police driving over.
I still haven't heard any argument that the suspect THREATENED any person (protecting property does not count as self defense) PRIOR to Zimmerman confronting him... Again, after the police told him NOT to cause a confrontation. And it wasn't even "his" property, it was the STREET where the incident occurred.
this is the trouble with the "stand your ground" laws. They basically mean you can start a fight as long as the other person is mad enough, then you can shoot them. The kid was a minor, and no weapons were reported. The man had an SUV and a handgun... Calling a fistfight "self defense" is a stretch at best. But the law TAKES AWAY the prosecutors ability to ask. This would be murder in many states without that silly law...
And dropping off a severe goat head on somebody's doorstep is just a "present"? Might as well just mail a brown envelope to the guys house with a picture of his daughter with a black "x" in marker... It's just art??
Just remember kids, in certain states protecting your child's reputatution is considered "self defense". Many Western states still make shooting somebody that defames you in the bar only a misdemeanor. Talk about "hold your ground laws"!
That's called blackmail is it not?? Or does the law only apply to "illegal" activities? It's clearly extortion because she is asking for money.
The real world has plenty of unemployed willing to break some kneecaps. It's mean to say that, but sometimes things need some "real world" reminders.
Fixed-format RPGIII rules!!!!
Why do you think Apple keeps so few SKUs? The only need 1-2 of each processor and model and they keep the individual parts on hand for upgrades or repairs. Gateway could have worked if they did something similar... Ten different cases should have been their first hint it wasnt going to work.
That is how Sears ruled in their heyday. You could look up in the catalog and they would have the item on the next truck to your town. Had the catalog business not already been dead before 1990 we might have had Sears as our overlords instead of Amazon.
My company is switching to ONLY Blackberries. Except we can't have.... ...Messenger, because the company std is Lynk/OCS ...web browsing, making the phone useless for even checking flights at the airport ... Apps are totally locked out... With no rule to even update the default apps. ... So they TOOK AWAY modern Android phones, and even the ability to use any device with Active Sync because that exchange component is now "unsecure".
When I don't feel like having two phones, guess who's gets left home??
It also puts some of the users "skin" in the game. If you get banned, then you have to get a new Facebook login too to get back on the site. Those sites don't take kindly to making many fake accounts.
Guess what backs up the Cloud?
Worked well on my iPad. I think there might be some keyboard commands I can't get to? Enough to play the game pretty well.
The real issue is de-duplication.
Just keeping the data around is not hard, but expensive. How much of the data is PERSONAL data? Media like movies and songs is pretty easy to replace (for the time being) and if you wanted to back it up, you really only need it once... Something like just putting all your iTunes purchases to a DVD every few months would be enough.
Personal data is more complicated. There are several parts. "the cloud" works for stuff you are using right now. But what tools are available to collect files from computers, or even better collect files from a bunch of disks?
Then how do you skim off all the useless downloads, pref files , etc?
You miss two points. First, nothing has to do with the SUPPLY of oil, the problem OS that it is being HEAVILY used as "hard currency" by investors everywhere. It's the rush to move money in and out of oil that causes most of the price problems.
Second, "gasoline" is really 50+ different products depending on local laws, season, price of ingredients, etc. it's all decided by states (and some cities) so the oil companies have "captured" the regulation on it. Meaning when a refinery gets behind on production, they can't "legally" sell cheaper gas from the next state because it isn't certified. Remember top that gas is bought at "market" price. So YOUR gas station (even though it's all chains) is competing for that gas with some bored millionaire that wants to pad their books this week. In the name of not being "monopolies" the oil companies have arranged it so they don't "own" any oil at all. THEY just get fees for processing it... They don't "set" the price, they just control all the spicots.
I'd say also, we need to jack up the gas taxes more. The highest taxes are only about $.50 a gallon for state and federal taxes. In many places sales tax is higher now. Clearly, the government isn't capturing as much revenue as the market will bear. Then we could have better roads and pad some state budgets. States can do something else to ease fuel for business use... Note that has is LESS expensive than diesel which means that cars are using considerably less since the crash in 08. It also builds incentives for more efficient personal cars.
One could argue that the phone company technically "owns" more of the phone than you do because of subsidies. So in that case, "somebody" has to pay for a new SIM card so the phone company gets a customer.
Although in the USA every boyfriend would be reporting their girlfriends phone "stolen" when she left them and it would be a support nightmare trying to keep it all straight.
Look up the Brick Testement!
A much easier explanation...
God is like the ocean, vast and infinite. Jesus is like an ice sculpture, one physical form at a place and time. The holy spirit is like 2000psi steam, that is invisible, and you can't touch, but you know it's there when a train whistles.
But they are all water.. From the same sea... Not really different at all.
The real problem is that universities act more lola patent trolls than schools now. The publishers cut University-wide deals... So the "best" researchers get everything in the library for free... And the lower students and faculty have to pay in large wads of money.... And the university makes contribution of their coursework to the publisher mandatory... So the publisher has a built in monopoly on getting more stuff.
"TLDR; iFixit is stuck in the past because their business model depends on it. Boo hoo."
Look at it another way... There is enough DEMAND to hang on to devices that their services are needed. And Apple is essentially trying to REFUSE to support the repair process because of a few bucks. It's that attitude that if WE don't feel like supporting something it's WRONG for ANYBODY ELSE to do it too.... That change in society is the bigger problem.
I think you still point out the other side of the issue. Look how FEW parts are actually in there. If the stuff is well-tested then little can really go wrong. When you plan to make twenty million of something, and make it reliable all those little pieces add up.
The main problem is one or long term resource management. The original iPad already has been kicked from the new iPhoto app... When iPad has the same processor as iphone4 and can easily caputre pictures with something like an eye-fi card in your camera. For all the thousands of watts of energy it takes to make this stuff, two years is a little insulting... So Apple is being generous for original owners and will let them slide for another whole year. So what? use a crippled device? Or throw it away? I understand that 90% of the mass of an iPad is glass, battery, and aluminum... Very recyclable. I also know from working in a steel company that 60% of the cost of making a steel part from recycling to machining is ENERGY COST for furnaces, machines, treatments, machining, and a factory to work in.
Places like iFixit make good money keeping devices functional and out of a landfill for another year or three after Apple would want to sell you a new one. The same goes for Linux... Keeping unsupported things working. That companies are starting to use "copyright" to essentially send stuff to the landfill so you face to buy new is the real problem here. We need some exceptions to copyright tha when a company stops supporting a device with upgrades they have to issue a patch to "unlock" the device so modders and repair shops can legally fix them.
Motivation MAKES the crime. A small kid chases a ball in the street and you don't see and kill him, that is an accident. Hit the same kid over the legal limt of alochol it's now YOUR fault because you did not intend to drive safely in the first place.
Shoot your buddy hunting in the woods, that's an accident. Draw a gun on your buddy drinking beers and that's assualt with a deadly weapon.
Think of "bias intimidation" as the same thing as running from the cops. Every single blown stop sign become "intent" to harm the other drivers on the road to save your ass.
This is a fancy way of saying you INTENDED to causing the NEXT situation that did violate the law... Throwing a punch, etc. it's much like "road rage". The LAW expects YOU to go somewhere and deal with your anger issues... Not do stupid passive-agrees sine shit...
And what is Murder? Killing somebody with INTENT to do so. OR causing an UNSAFE condition that is identified in the law. Like drunk driving.
Prior to these laws a common argument was that you know now the act was wrong, but at the time you were "overcome righteous indignation" momma told me being the gays is wrong an they're going to hell and I had to protect myself...that's the argument STILL brought up in most police cases like this...
Hiding a camera, recording video (over multiple days), editing and posting is some SERIOUS intent. And the kid added gay comments on top of that... That adds EXTRA intent to harm THIS person and not just a childish gag.
Take everything else away... The webcam just happend to take a picture of your roommate and his boyfriend. Taken in the pricacy of your dorm room, why would you post that online and not just delete it like an honorable roommate?
And if the roommate took video of the guy bringing a GIRL home instead? As side from still being illegal what would have been the point of that?
But the kid felt the need to record boy-boy... And name names... If the roommate wasn't gay, then it would not have been an "interesting" prank. Right?
"bias intimidation" proves INTENT.. And THAT is one of the key points in US law. For instance auto accidents that kill people are not "illegal"... You drive after drinking and you have just "intended" to disregard the safety of others.
The protection from being spied on (except by the govt) is expremely HIGH in your own home. It is mostly because pervy adult men felt the need to spy on their daughters' friends and such.. of course we hang "sex offender" on you for that, but how is this really different?
The roommate broke that trust making the recording. The comments about being gay and identifying the roommate push this from a "prank" to intent to cause the person HARM because you didn't like their lifestyle choice.
The person hiding the camera, editing the video, and posting it online with the roomate's name INTENDED to do emotional harm... The law says the Intent causes the nexta action to be a felony also.
Of course that list represents your historical chance of being "randomly" accused of a crime and ass-raped by the police.... An establishment (and US GOVERNMENT in general) that is overwhelmingly group #14 (WASP) and feels the need to prove it.
I call BS. I have had the personal free version on my machines for years with none of that behavior.