Yeah, you could. But you still escalated the situation by introducing the firearm into it. Was it really necessary to do so over a case of simple trespass?
Depends on how intimidating they seem. With most people it would be sufficient to keep it just inside the door, out of sight but handy if things seem to be getting violent.
More to the point, do you really want to have to shoot somebody?
No.
Is that something you want to live with for the rest of your life over some jackass whose only crime was refusing to leave your property when asked?
The gun wouldn't come out from behind the door if I didn't feel threatened.
If your answer to those questions is "no", then why the hell would you introduce a firearm into a situation where your life isn't being threatened?
What's that quote from AVP? "I'd rather have one and not need it, than need it and not have one."
I suspect that the people who are bragging that they'd shoot someone over trespassing are teenage armchair internet warriors trying to convince themselves that they are tough. Personally I could not point a firearm at another human being and pull the trigger unless it was the only way to save my life or the life of another.
You can point down. Whether pointing and/or shooting at them becomes necessary is up to them.
What are you going to do if you "brandish" it and they call your bluff and still refuse to leave? Worse yet, what are you going to do if they make a grab for it? Shoot them? Have fun explaining to the jury why you escalated the situation to one of life and death when your life wasn't in danger to begin with.
My life was in danger when they attempted to grab it. If they manage to take it from me, there is little chance that they won't kill me or at least threaten to. Why else would they need my gun? If they don't have hostile intentions the most peaceful way for them to defuse the situation is to leave.
If I shoot to maim, it doesn't give them that chance.
I'm as pro-gun as they come but if I was on your jury I'd convict your ass in a heartbeat if that was the way it went down.
Legal ramifications are not going to be a high priority at the time. Convict if you must, it's better than the alternative for me.
You hopefully won't have much more than a dozen computers in an area that is not geographically distinct from other sections. At work, there are 6 distinct 'regions' within the largest single room.
Also, in America, commas and periods go inside quotes.
It's a completely unintuitive convention. The end of (or pause in) my sentence was not part of what the person I'm quoting said. Disregarding that rule is a conscious choice for some of us.
How many countries have "America" in its name? Mexico is formally known as the "United Mexican States", and as far as I can tell Canada is just "Canada".
On Friday Microsoft filed an emergency motion to stop the judgment and waive the bond requirement, according to court filings. The actual document was filed under seal, so the full contents of the request have not yet been made public.
Why on Earth does a way seal court documents even exist?
If i4i has a better product, they have nothing to worry about. If Microsoft is interested in adding that functionality to word, then they can acquire i4i for a fair price.
It doesn't matter whether or not i4i has a better product. They own the patent on the method their product uses. Microsoft is using that same method in Office without having licensed it from i4i. If they can't reach an agreement on a license fee or buy the patent outright, MS must wait about twenty years for the patent to expire if they want to use this method again.
"Just"? Negotiating tactic is most certainly at least the consolation prize, but they seem to be doing well with their Ubuntu systems.
It seems to me that this is more a case of not keeping all of one's eggs in the MS-x86 basket. Using Linux now gives them a head start in developing a polished interface over their competitors and experience in migrating platforms.
Using ARM now gives them time to work the kinks out of the hardware integration so their ARM laptops can be more stable than the competition's when everyone else starts jumping on the bandwagon.
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If there was, that would mean the ratio can be exactly defined by a finite amount of information.
And the problem with that is...?
Yeah, you could. But you still escalated the situation by introducing the firearm into it. Was it really necessary to do so over a case of simple trespass?
Depends on how intimidating they seem. With most people it would be sufficient to keep it just inside the door, out of sight but handy if things seem to be getting violent.
More to the point, do you really want to have to shoot somebody?
No.
Is that something you want to live with for the rest of your life over some jackass whose only crime was refusing to leave your property when asked?
The gun wouldn't come out from behind the door if I didn't feel threatened.
If your answer to those questions is "no", then why the hell would you introduce a firearm into a situation where your life isn't being threatened?
What's that quote from AVP? "I'd rather have one and not need it, than need it and not have one."
I suspect that the people who are bragging that they'd shoot someone over trespassing are teenage armchair internet warriors trying to convince themselves that they are tough. Personally I could not point a firearm at another human being and pull the trigger unless it was the only way to save my life or the life of another.
You can point down. Whether pointing and/or shooting at them becomes necessary is up to them.
10lb-or-under robots its personnel can throw into dangerous situations
You mean like the I-Ball?
...if they make the mistake of calling me they are going to hear every four letter word in the English language.
There are some words one just can't justify spewing at even the lowest scum. Words like GOTO.
What are you going to do if you "brandish" it and they call your bluff and still refuse to leave? Worse yet, what are you going to do if they make a grab for it? Shoot them? Have fun explaining to the jury why you escalated the situation to one of life and death when your life wasn't in danger to begin with.
My life was in danger when they attempted to grab it. If they manage to take it from me, there is little chance that they won't kill me or at least threaten to. Why else would they need my gun? If they don't have hostile intentions the most peaceful way for them to defuse the situation is to leave. If I shoot to maim, it doesn't give them that chance.
I'm as pro-gun as they come but if I was on your jury I'd convict your ass in a heartbeat if that was the way it went down.
Legal ramifications are not going to be a high priority at the time. Convict if you must, it's better than the alternative for me.
1 point per minute you keep them from calling other people.
How many points for forwarding them to the last guy that called you?
A PDF reader than can only display a single PDF file. It is immune to rm but is difficult to back up and doesn't have a search feature.
Yes, its vaguely-but-not-really interesting stuff like this that belongs in Idle.
Know the subject you write about.
This will lead to people indulging in arbitrage.
You say that like that's a bad thing.
He never said the VM wouldn't be on an Apple machine...
It's free to download on the internets!
So's Linux, but people still pay for it.
How can anything that runs on The Holy Mac be bad?
Bootcamp
You hopefully won't have much more than a dozen computers in an area that is not geographically distinct from other sections. At work, there are 6 distinct 'regions' within the largest single room.
So name each region to a different theme.
I'd suggest zps000001 as a naming convention as it allows a million servers into your cluster.
68,719,476,736 to be precise, assuming you leave the ZPS prefix alone.
I doubt it can even run "Hello World!" at this point.
Also, in America, commas and periods go inside quotes.
It's a completely unintuitive convention. The end of (or pause in) my sentence was not part of what the person I'm quoting said. Disregarding that rule is a conscious choice for some of us.
How many countries have "America" in its name? Mexico is formally known as the "United Mexican States", and as far as I can tell Canada is just "Canada".
Why?
I find your ideas intriguing and would like to subscribe to your newsletter.
In fact, if you ever want to write a book I know a great Publisher.
On Friday Microsoft filed an emergency motion to stop the judgment and waive the bond requirement, according to court filings. The actual document was filed under seal, so the full contents of the request have not yet been made public.
Why on Earth does a way seal court documents even exist?
Kind of like how letting wood rot is not burning it.
If i4i has a better product, they have nothing to worry about. If Microsoft is interested in adding that functionality to word, then they can acquire i4i for a fair price.
It doesn't matter whether or not i4i has a better product. They own the patent on the method their product uses. Microsoft is using that same method in Office without having licensed it from i4i. If they can't reach an agreement on a license fee or buy the patent outright, MS must wait about twenty years for the patent to expire if they want to use this method again.
At the bottom of Mathcad's Wikipedia page you'll find 9 open source options.
"Just"? Negotiating tactic is most certainly at least the consolation prize, but they seem to be doing well with their Ubuntu systems.
It seems to me that this is more a case of not keeping all of one's eggs in the MS-x86 basket. Using Linux now gives them a head start in developing a polished interface over their competitors and experience in migrating platforms.
Using ARM now gives them time to work the kinks out of the hardware integration so their ARM laptops can be more stable than the competition's when everyone else starts jumping on the bandwagon.