Someone tell us what the "ton" is that Westlaw and LexisNexis charge.
The currency in the UK is called the "Pound". (The UK wisely stayed out of the Euro mess). If UK "barristers" and "solicitors" (the Old English term for lawyers) are anything like American lawyers, if you just walk into their offices for a quick chat, you will need to bring a ton of pounds with you.
However, being a barrister or solicitor in the UK is a much more stressful job as the one of a lawyer in the US. Whenever I see UK barristers and solicitors on television, they all have prematurely grey hair.
And they can't even afford proper clothing, and instead just wrap themselves in a black bed sheet for court appearances!
I've had more success, with inserting them in the spine of the person borrowing the book. Then I tell them the "Escape from New York" story, and that if I don't get the book back . . . they will be missing a few disks in their backs . . .
All you need to cause a whole city to lose service, is a "Loose Nut" behind the steering wheel of a backhoe. You can put up a big sign saying "Do Not Drill or Dig Here!" . . . which the "Loose Nut" will interpret as an invitation to do some investigative fracking.
what does this say about the redundancy of their infrastructure?
"Loose Nuts" tend to be like Quantum entangled pairs of Schrodinger's cats: They are both digging where they shouldn't be digging at the same time, but in difference places. In highly redundant systems, "Loose Nuts" are like an Abstract Hilbert Space full of Schrodinger's cats.
This is why Einstein quipped about Quantum Mechanics, "Niels Bohr and his pals must be smoking some weird shit, because I can't make heads or tails of it." And then Bohr answered, "Chill out Al, . . . it's not heads or tails . . . it's both . . . at the same time! Hey, is von Neumann Bogarting the bong again!?"
Well . . . I was wondering what the dollar value of a human life is these days. So now, I guess that it is about $600K . . . in the UK. The value of human lives might vary in other countries.
You might want to consider that when planning where to put your data center . . .
Except for all the gun folk that actually shoot people dead you mean?
Gun folks don't shoot people dead, unless, they are doing the killing in their duty as a soldier or as an officer of the law. People who shoot other people dead are not gun folks. Those folks are criminals. Your average NRA member doesn't do a drive-by shooting in the ghetto, or hold up a liquor store, or shoot another rapper because the other rapper "dissed" him.
Your average NRA member would not perform any criminal acts because they would face a punishment worse than anything the government could dish out:
They would be kicked out of the NRA!
"Cruel and Unusual Punishment", indeed, as defined by the US Constitution.
Well, if your yard has 6 other yards along the borders, and you like to fly your whirligig in your backyard, is it a problem for you to neighborly wander by their homes, and say:
"Hello there! I'm your neighbor! I like to fly a whirligig in my backyard. If that annoys you in any way, please just call me, or just come by. Wanna beer?"
But you've certainly down that, haven't you . . . ?
If he could hit a flying drone with a 9mm, he was either an extremely good shooter . . . or incredibly lucky. At the gun club ("Schützenverein") that I visit there are some ex German Army folks who could shoot the ears off a fly. They would not be able to do this to a drone with a 9mm.
The defendant in this case used a shotgun with bird shot: totally innocuous over long range.
This was a very dangerous action.
No, it wasn't. And this is what prevents serious gun legislation in the US: Too many people talking about something they know nothing about. This is a free lunch for the NRA: The people proposing new gun legislation don't even know the difference between bird shot or a 9mm. When these folks get around being unable to know the difference between their asses and their elbows, they could propose tighter gun restriction legislation that even the NRA would agree to.
Actually, serious drone pilots and gun folks have something in common: They follow a simple rule of "Don't be an asshole!" I don't fly my RC critters anywhere which would bother other folks. Gun folks don't shoot in any areas that could put other folks in danger.
Really simple, actually, and could be applied to virtually any device that two-legged critters can control or carry: "Don't be an asshole!"
But, apparently, that is too difficult for a lot of folks.
The IRS is not just about collecting taxes anymore. It's about hindering political movements that the current administration doesn't like. The IRS chief in charge of the persecution of Tea Party groups, more or less, flipped the bird at Congress, and walked off with a juicy pension. Not that I like Tea Party groups, but I'm just wondering where Hilary will strike next.
I think all this depends on the behavior of the male mice . ..did they stay around to take care and nurture their offspring? Did they pass off the stress to the mouse mother, who in turn, passed it off to the mouse child . . . ?
The behavior of a human male, after the birth of a child has more affect on the baby, then anything that happened before the birth.
But as soon as you say "fracking", the swarms of small earthquakes that lubrication of shallow rock strata can create suddenly become much more important than other threats that are historically worse in the region. You can get the same effect by dropping "nuclear" into any discussion.
. . . and there I was, thinking that I could get rich with "Nuclear Fracking"
The US Army doesn't like USB port on laptops, and the like, so they are physically disabled. US Army Dental Surgeons, specialists in things like peritonitis, my want to leave the army later, and go into a private practice. For that they need pictures of patients, documenting what they have done. They have the pictures on their machines, but can't copy them onto a USB stick, because the military does not want that.
So what does a smart US Army Dental Surgeon do . . . ? Well, he figures out that he can send a picture to their printer . . . which happens to have a USB port for a memory stick. And then he can just save the pictures using this method.
Really? Sounds like this judge had his/her verdict in mind before anyone stepped into the courtroom.
. . . so the judge gets delivered a National Security Letter. The first thing, that is very clearly stated in the letter, is that he is not allowed to talk about the National Security Letter. Then the letter instructs him how to rule on the case.
All, legal, no problem . . .
. . . or . . . ?
What if you received a National Security Letter instructing you to kill somebody . . . what would you do . . . ?
Does the US government issue issue letters like this? Who knows? There is no oversight from anyone on what these letters require you to do. Maybe Snowden knows . . .
But did you actually spend any time trying to hit targets?
We used old telephone books, at a distance of about 20 meters . . . which was limited by the size of my friend's basement. Full automatic weapons were illegal in the state in the US where I was living . . . so we needed to be a bit discrete about this. Back then, you could buy MAC-10 "parts kits" in the back of Shotgun News". On the next page you could order a lower receiver to convert it to full auto. Those days are probably over now in the US now.
The "spray of bullets" method is actually dramatically less effective in the real world, even against a crowd, than people expect.
The first thing that your are taught about firing a fully automatic weapon, is that you need to judge your usage of ammunition, as opposed to the damaged that your do to your target.
Barring extreme training,
Hello?!?!?! Are you one on those Muslim creeps, who is going to say that Islamic Terrorists are just innocent boys, who spend all day reading the Koran, and then practice with an AK when they don't have anything else better to do?
If you take a look at the crowd that held the folks in Mumbai in terror during their attacks, they were very well trained with their weapons. Probably even better with any US troops, aside from the "Secret Squirrels"; the SEALs and their retinue. During the terrorist attack in Paris, one of the terrorist knew exactly how to clear a jammed AK.
These terrorists are no amateurs.
full auto really only has one application, and that's convincing someone who is shooting at you to take cover,
It was sad when I saw some new footage of a US soldier trying to give some suppressing fire. He had an M-* that was obviously limited to three round bursts. So, he just kept pumping it like a water pistol.
because without extensive training you can't hit the broad side of a barn with a fully-automatic rifle and machine pistols are even worse.
Islamic Terrorists have all the time in the world for extensive training.
If I were a terrorist leader
. . . we wouldn't have to worry about terrorism any more . . .
So, why do you think that folks like the GSG 9 in Germany or the US Navy SEALs use MP7s . . . ? Because they are quote effective at what they were designed for: Close quarters, anti-terrorism combat.
Haw! You think an AK is a good choice in a packed train? Look what happened to the jerk on the train from Amsterdam to Paris!
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If you don't want to pay taxes then go somewhere with no taxes (Somalia?)
You misspelled Greece . . .
Someone tell us what the "ton" is that Westlaw and LexisNexis charge.
The currency in the UK is called the "Pound". (The UK wisely stayed out of the Euro mess). If UK "barristers" and "solicitors" (the Old English term for lawyers) are anything like American lawyers, if you just walk into their offices for a quick chat, you will need to bring a ton of pounds with you.
However, being a barrister or solicitor in the UK is a much more stressful job as the one of a lawyer in the US. Whenever I see UK barristers and solicitors on television, they all have prematurely grey hair.
And they can't even afford proper clothing, and instead just wrap themselves in a black bed sheet for court appearances!
If you are so concerned about privacy, how about don't break the fucking law in the first place.
You don't need to break the law to get sued by a patent troll or some other wacko.
they were inserted in the spine of the book.
I've had more success, with inserting them in the spine of the person borrowing the book. Then I tell them the "Escape from New York" story, and that if I don't get the book back . . . they will be missing a few disks in their backs . . .
when was the last time a whole city lost service?
All you need to cause a whole city to lose service, is a "Loose Nut" behind the steering wheel of a backhoe. You can put up a big sign saying "Do Not Drill or Dig Here!" . . . which the "Loose Nut" will interpret as an invitation to do some investigative fracking.
what does this say about the redundancy of their infrastructure?
"Loose Nuts" tend to be like Quantum entangled pairs of Schrodinger's cats: They are both digging where they shouldn't be digging at the same time, but in difference places. In highly redundant systems, "Loose Nuts" are like an Abstract Hilbert Space full of Schrodinger's cats.
This is why Einstein quipped about Quantum Mechanics, "Niels Bohr and his pals must be smoking some weird shit, because I can't make heads or tails of it." And then Bohr answered, "Chill out Al, . . . it's not heads or tails . . . it's both . . . at the same time! Hey, is von Neumann Bogarting the bong again!?"
Whats the solution? Wish I knew.
Soylent Green Szechuan.
Try it with the soy sauce dip . . .
. . . Hollywood even made a movie about it, titled: "Crack in the World": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
As films tend to go in Hollywood with nukes and the Earth's crust, things go terribly, and viewed now, hilariously wrong.
I guess a re-make of this film today would be titled, "Frack in in the World" . . . ?
Well . . . I was wondering what the dollar value of a human life is these days. So now, I guess that it is about $600K . . . in the UK. The value of human lives might vary in other countries.
You might want to consider that when planning where to put your data center . . .
Except for all the gun folk that actually shoot people dead you mean?
Gun folks don't shoot people dead, unless, they are doing the killing in their duty as a soldier or as an officer of the law. People who shoot other people dead are not gun folks. Those folks are criminals. Your average NRA member doesn't do a drive-by shooting in the ghetto, or hold up a liquor store, or shoot another rapper because the other rapper "dissed" him.
Your average NRA member would not perform any criminal acts because they would face a punishment worse than anything the government could dish out:
They would be kicked out of the NRA!
"Cruel and Unusual Punishment", indeed, as defined by the US Constitution.
Well, if your yard has 6 other yards along the borders, and you like to fly your whirligig in your backyard, is it a problem for you to neighborly wander by their homes, and say:
"Hello there! I'm your neighbor! I like to fly a whirligig in my backyard. If that annoys you in any way, please just call me, or just come by. Wanna beer?"
But you've certainly down that, haven't you . . . ?
If he could hit a flying drone with a 9mm, he was either an extremely good shooter . . . or incredibly lucky. At the gun club ("Schützenverein") that I visit there are some ex German Army folks who could shoot the ears off a fly. They would not be able to do this to a drone with a 9mm.
The defendant in this case used a shotgun with bird shot: totally innocuous over long range.
This was a very dangerous action.
No, it wasn't. And this is what prevents serious gun legislation in the US: Too many people talking about something they know nothing about. This is a free lunch for the NRA: The people proposing new gun legislation don't even know the difference between bird shot or a 9mm. When these folks get around being unable to know the difference between their asses and their elbows, they could propose tighter gun restriction legislation that even the NRA would agree to.
Actually, serious drone pilots and gun folks have something in common: They follow a simple rule of "Don't be an asshole!" I don't fly my RC critters anywhere which would bother other folks. Gun folks don't shoot in any areas that could put other folks in danger.
Really simple, actually, and could be applied to virtually any device that two-legged critters can control or carry: "Don't be an asshole!"
But, apparently, that is too difficult for a lot of folks.
DoT?
Department of Transportation
In this case, since it involves RC stuff, I think DoT == Department of Toys . . .
The IRS is not just about collecting taxes anymore. It's about hindering political movements that the current administration doesn't like. The IRS chief in charge of the persecution of Tea Party groups, more or less, flipped the bird at Congress, and walked off with a juicy pension. Not that I like Tea Party groups, but I'm just wondering where Hilary will strike next.
I think all this depends on the behavior of the male mice . . .did they stay around to take care and nurture their offspring? Did they pass off the stress to the mouse mother, who in turn, passed it off to the mouse child . . . ?
The behavior of a human male, after the birth of a child has more affect on the baby, then anything that happened before the birth.
Unless humans women are breeding with male mice
I'm sure that there is a Tube for that, but you'll have to google it yourself.
I think we are all missing the Earth-shattering first-ever event here:
A judge in a court in the US has decided that something posted on Facebook, has value !
But as soon as you say "fracking", the swarms of small earthquakes that lubrication of shallow rock strata can create suddenly become much more important than other threats that are historically worse in the region. You can get the same effect by dropping "nuclear" into any discussion.
. . . and there I was, thinking that I could get rich with "Nuclear Fracking"
. . .
The US Army doesn't like USB port on laptops, and the like, so they are physically disabled. US Army Dental Surgeons, specialists in things like peritonitis, my want to leave the army later, and go into a private practice. For that they need pictures of patients, documenting what they have done. They have the pictures on their machines, but can't copy them onto a USB stick, because the military does not want that.
So what does a smart US Army Dental Surgeon do . . . ? Well, he figures out that he can send a picture to their printer . . . which happens to have a USB port for a memory stick. And then he can just save the pictures using this method.
What do I win . . . ?
Really? Sounds like this judge had his/her verdict in mind before anyone stepped into the courtroom.
. . . so the judge gets delivered a National Security Letter. The first thing, that is very clearly stated in the letter, is that he is not allowed to talk about the National Security Letter. Then the letter instructs him how to rule on the case.
All, legal, no problem . . .
. . . or . . . ?
What if you received a National Security Letter instructing you to kill somebody . . . what would you do . . . ?
Does the US government issue issue letters like this? Who knows? There is no oversight from anyone on what these letters require you to do. Maybe Snowden knows . . .
. . . as in "Bags of mostly water" . . . ?
Anyway, 3D printing is yesterday's technology . . . the pros are using 4D printing now: https://www.heidelberg.com/glo...
Whatever the Hell that means . . .
Obviously, an accident with a contraceptive in a time machine . . .
Whether the governments like it or not, the use of VPN and encryption is on the rise by businesses around the world
. . . it's not just businesses . . . but governments, as well, who use VPNs.
So when those Eurocrats in Belgium realize that their VPN is being throttled, they will suddenly change their minds.
But did you actually spend any time trying to hit targets?
We used old telephone books, at a distance of about 20 meters . . . which was limited by the size of my friend's basement. Full automatic weapons were illegal in the state in the US where I was living . . . so we needed to be a bit discrete about this. Back then, you could buy MAC-10 "parts kits" in the back of Shotgun News". On the next page you could order a lower receiver to convert it to full auto. Those days are probably over now in the US now.
The "spray of bullets" method is actually dramatically less effective in the real world, even against a crowd, than people expect.
The first thing that your are taught about firing a fully automatic weapon, is that you need to judge your usage of ammunition, as opposed to the damaged that your do to your target.
Barring extreme training,
Hello?!?!?! Are you one on those Muslim creeps, who is going to say that Islamic Terrorists are just innocent boys, who spend all day reading the Koran, and then practice with an AK when they don't have anything else better to do?
If you take a look at the crowd that held the folks in Mumbai in terror during their attacks, they were very well trained with their weapons. Probably even better with any US troops, aside from the "Secret Squirrels"; the SEALs and their retinue. During the terrorist attack in Paris, one of the terrorist knew exactly how to clear a jammed AK.
These terrorists are no amateurs.
full auto really only has one application, and that's convincing someone who is shooting at you to take cover,
It was sad when I saw some new footage of a US soldier trying to give some suppressing fire. He had an M-* that was obviously limited to three round bursts. So, he just kept pumping it like a water pistol.
because without extensive training you can't hit the broad side of a barn with a fully-automatic rifle and machine pistols are even worse.
Islamic Terrorists have all the time in the world for extensive training.
If I were a terrorist leader
. . . we wouldn't have to worry about terrorism any more . . .
So, why do you think that folks like the GSG 9 in Germany or the US Navy SEALs use MP7s . . . ? Because they are quote effective at what they were designed for: Close quarters, anti-terrorism combat.
Haw! You think an AK is a good choice in a packed train? Look what happened to the jerk on the train from Amsterdam to Paris!
So . . . I now need to upgrade my tinfoil hat to a lead hat?
I'd like to have a little pocket X-Ray detector to keep with me when I am wandering around public places. The results might be frightening . . .
Or, just give it to the "Radioactive Boy Scout": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Now, for a hilarious film about the whole incident, check out: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...