It's not just internet installations. When our DirecTV was installed, the installer installed the dish directly above the cable box (pointing halfway into the roof) and connected the dish to the cable, letting him use the existing cable wiring. Of course, that meant only one of our dual tuners was actually set up, and the signal strength was 70% (60's the minimum) in good weather. Then, when Comcast figured out we were no longer their customers, they cut all the wires leading to the cable box, turning off our DirecTV.
The main thing I learned from this was not to let my wife sign for the work of installers.
While I may not post to Facebook how cute my wife looks when she's fisting her boyfriend, there's plenty of stuff that is perfectly appropriate for my grandmother, cousins, coworkers, and everyone I used to know in high school.
For the rest, I'll stick to LiveJournal or FetLife.
So when you see a parent spanking a child in public, do you stop them?
No, because parents currently have a legal right to commit assault against their children. I have no grounds to stop them.
Where do parental rights end and the rights of society to intercede begin?
People have kids because it's something they want to do, the lifestyle they want to lead. The kids themselves have their whole lives at stake, with no input. To talk about rights in a case like that, other than those of the kids, strikes me as a sick joke.
Should parents have to be licensed before they have kids?
If I owned a store and had a magazine and book rack, you bet I'd be picky about what I put on the shelves. No censoring involved, just applying my standards of taste to what I, as a store owner, decide to display and sell in my store.
Which is censorship if you're doing it for any reason other than that it wouldn't sell enough.
There is no constitutional right for a smut author to have their crappy book with a crappy title sold by any particular company
I don't anyone suggested it's unconstitutional, but are you opposed to government censorship because you actually think it's a bad idea, or just because the constitution forbids it?
Traffic Jam rush hour is far more typical scenario, where real saving could be found.
I'd be afraid, if this became common, lots of people would wait longer before moving forward, so they can keep the engine off more. That's likely to make the traffic jams a lot worse, and cost more fuel overall.
Too many people know my mother's maiden name, my first car, my high school
And too many of the questions don't have clear answers.
What was your first pet? We had a dog and two cats when I was born. What's your favorite band? Depends when you ask me. What was your first car? Could be any of four, depending on what qualifies as mine. What city were you born in? "Elkins", "Elkins, WV", "Elkins West Virginia"?
Sure, I can just pick one, but am I going to pick the same thing six months from now?
So guess who decides whether or not to prosecute? The police.
Well, Internal Affairs. Unfortunately, we've all seen so many cop shows that we're conditioned to think of Internal Affairs as the enemy, when it should be seen as the single most noble public-service position there is.
Assuming we're talking about a criminal trial, then you find "not guilty".
That's what you should do, yes, but it's not what really happens.
My wife was on a murder jury where everyone agreed that the only witness they didn't think was lying was the medical examiner, and there were several unaddressed questions. The best she could do was to talk them down to second degree.
The investigation has already been done by the prosecution and defense.
And probably poorly. I'm unlikely to ever be enpaneled for any significant criminal case, because if I have any questions that the testimony didn't answer, I'm going to consider that reasonable doubt.
Juries shouldn't be doing their own investigations in secret, but they should be able to ask witnesses questions, and send requests for more testimony. They should also have complete access to transcripts and crime scene photographs.
Sure, for a little while. What you're describing, though, is a case of money completely leaving our economy, and not generally for anything that improves our productivity.
Money is just a proxy, and long-term, we need to be providing roughly as much value to other economies as they provide to us. Otherwise, we're just expecting tribute from all those other countries.
has already stated plans to cut spending on education
How many kids growing up in Iowa (or Michigan, since that's where I live) are actually going to stay there as adults? Maybe it doesn't make sense for us to pay to educate the future of someplace else entirely.
the Democrats had a huge majority in the house and a super majority in the Senate?
They're hardly monolithic. Most of the new southern state democrats are substantially more conservative than either Republican senator from Maine (or the other New England Republicans who got voted out in the last few years).
They could always disperse after a bigger attack and then do that.
Go to a neighborhood like mine, with wooden houses six feet apart on one way streets. Drive slowly down the street in the middle of the night with three people in a jeep. One drives, and the other two throw a Molatov Cocktail into every third house on each side of the street. Space those appropriately, bomb a few local fire stations, and 20 people or so would stand a very good chance of burning down a few square miles of city.
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Actually no, this one is:
The setup:
http://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/cf1n2/holy_fuck_i_just_saw_someone_get_hit_by_a_train/c0s4de4
(Comments in between mention this was in Russia.)
And here it is:
http://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/cf1n2/holy_fuck_i_just_saw_someone_get_hit_by_a_train/c0s4nfi
It's not just internet installations. When our DirecTV was installed, the installer installed the dish directly above the cable box (pointing halfway into the roof) and connected the dish to the cable, letting him use the existing cable wiring. Of course, that meant only one of our dual tuners was actually set up, and the signal strength was 70% (60's the minimum) in good weather. Then, when Comcast figured out we were no longer their customers, they cut all the wires leading to the cable box, turning off our DirecTV.
The main thing I learned from this was not to let my wife sign for the work of installers.
There are radio version that leaves out or change those lines.
While I may not post to Facebook how cute my wife looks when she's fisting her boyfriend, there's plenty of stuff that is perfectly appropriate for my grandmother, cousins, coworkers, and everyone I used to know in high school.
For the rest, I'll stick to LiveJournal or FetLife.
So when you see a parent spanking a child in public, do you stop them?
No, because parents currently have a legal right to commit assault against their children. I have no grounds to stop them.
Where do parental rights end and the rights of society to intercede begin?
People have kids because it's something they want to do, the lifestyle they want to lead. The kids themselves have their whole lives at stake, with no input. To talk about rights in a case like that, other than those of the kids, strikes me as a sick joke.
Should parents have to be licensed before they have kids?
Absolutely.
If I owned a store and had a magazine and book rack, you bet I'd be picky about what I put on the shelves. No censoring involved, just applying my standards of taste to what I, as a store owner, decide to display and sell in my store.
Which is censorship if you're doing it for any reason other than that it wouldn't sell enough.
There is no constitutional right for a smut author to have their crappy book with a crappy title sold by any particular company
I don't anyone suggested it's unconstitutional, but are you opposed to government censorship because you actually think it's a bad idea, or just because the constitution forbids it?
Traffic Jam rush hour is far more typical scenario, where real saving could be found.
I'd be afraid, if this became common, lots of people would wait longer before moving forward, so they can keep the engine off more. That's likely to make the traffic jams a lot worse, and cost more fuel overall.
Then it was discovered that fish didn't vote, so they started naming submarines after constituencies: SSNs were named after cities, SSBNs after states
They want to name important ships after cities and states, and they aren't making heavy cruisers and battleships anymore.
Too many people know my mother's maiden name, my first car, my high school
And too many of the questions don't have clear answers.
What was your first pet? We had a dog and two cats when I was born.
What's your favorite band? Depends when you ask me.
What was your first car? Could be any of four, depending on what qualifies as mine.
What city were you born in? "Elkins", "Elkins, WV", "Elkins West Virginia"?
Sure, I can just pick one, but am I going to pick the same thing six months from now?
So guess who decides whether or not to prosecute? The police.
Well, Internal Affairs. Unfortunately, we've all seen so many cop shows that we're conditioned to think of Internal Affairs as the enemy, when it should be seen as the single most noble public-service position there is.
Assuming we're talking about a criminal trial, then you find "not guilty".
That's what you should do, yes, but it's not what really happens.
My wife was on a murder jury where everyone agreed that the only witness they didn't think was lying was the medical examiner, and there were several unaddressed questions. The best she could do was to talk them down to second degree.
Best Buy is the place to go when you need a cable in a real pinch
No, that's Radio Shack, or a Yahoo yellow pages search for small computer stores.
Best Buy used to be great for CDs, but now most of them only have about two rows. The rest of the space has gone to TVs.
The investigation has already been done by the prosecution and defense.
And probably poorly. I'm unlikely to ever be enpaneled for any significant criminal case, because if I have any questions that the testimony didn't answer, I'm going to consider that reasonable doubt.
Juries shouldn't be doing their own investigations in secret, but they should be able to ask witnesses questions, and send requests for more testimony. They should also have complete access to transcripts and crime scene photographs.
i am assuming that shitty old VGA projectors will continue to cause problems for my presentations well beyond 2015
Sometimes, but a lot will depend on the size of the conference room. At my office, we replaced one of our projectors with a 57" TV earlier this year.
Wasn't that Punky Brewster?
Sure, for a little while. What you're describing, though, is a case of money completely leaving our economy, and not generally for anything that improves our productivity.
Money is just a proxy, and long-term, we need to be providing roughly as much value to other economies as they provide to us. Otherwise, we're just expecting tribute from all those other countries.
And some just get depressed watching cut flowers die.
If you're trying to use anal as birth control, watch out where semen leaks to afterwards. Pregnancies are still quite possibly.
How about "because I am polite"? I open doors for everyone.
Sure, you're paying for it anyway, but what's the point of the extra complexity you get from splitting it out?
has already stated plans to cut spending on education
How many kids growing up in Iowa (or Michigan, since that's where I live) are actually going to stay there as adults? Maybe it doesn't make sense for us to pay to educate the future of someplace else entirely.
the Democrats had a huge majority in the house and a super majority in the Senate?
They're hardly monolithic. Most of the new southern state democrats are substantially more conservative than either Republican senator from Maine (or the other New England Republicans who got voted out in the last few years).
As long as we teach what's really going on the the place value system, not stupid tricks like long division and lining up columns for multiplication.
What's that, they aren't releasing software for a platform that's a decade old?
And still the market leader. There's no way they would ever not release for WinXP if it wasn't the same company.
They could always disperse after a bigger attack and then do that.
Go to a neighborhood like mine, with wooden houses six feet apart on one way streets. Drive slowly down the street in the middle of the night with three people in a jeep. One drives, and the other two throw a Molatov Cocktail into every third house on each side of the street. Space those appropriately, bomb a few local fire stations, and 20 people or so would stand a very good chance of burning down a few square miles of city.