Unnecessary hyperbole. One drink isn’t drunk, not the drunk who’s going to rear-end someone because he’s too pissed to drive anyway.
You’re just as bad as MADD: Drunk drivers are committing premeditated attempted murder; one drink is drunk; the legal limit should be anything above 0.000. Yeah... gimme a break. There’s a law of diminishing returns, and besides, it’s completely hypocritical if you don’t also revoke the license of just about everyone over the age of 55 since a twenty-something has better reflexes after 1 drink than they have completely sober and with 10 hours of sleep.
Yeah. Not to mention, we can force drivers to submit to an invasive search (“either we force this phallic object into your mouth and you blow it, or we take blood”) based on no cause whatsoever under the guise that catching a dozen or two people who were not noticeably intoxicated justified violating hundreds, if not thousands, of people’s rights.
I wish it was harder to find examples, but it’s not:
A sobriety checkpoint Saturday night yielded 16 arrests for driving under the influence, Colorado Springs police said. The checkpoint stopped drivers in the southbound lanes of Academy Boulevard just north of Maizeland Road.
In all, 1,176 people were contacted by police at the checkpoint (i.e. 1,176 people had their rights violated by an unconstitutional search). Of those people, 33 were evaluated for driving drunk, nearly half of which were arrested.
At a 0.08 BAC, it’s more like firing a gun in an apparently deserted forest and risking the slightly-above-zero possibility that there was someone else there.
Usually you’re correct in assuming that, if that was the case, the problem was in the software. However it is possible to have a hardware problem that only occurs in some bizarre set of circumstances and you didn’t find it until the software was changed.
Um, it can’t because the 1s and 0s in a.mp3 (or whatever it is that audiophiles listen to) are fundamentally no different from the 1s and 0s of your operating system’s core kernel, and it’s a hell of a lot more vitally important that the 1s and 0s in your operating system’s core kernel can be read correctly with no errors. So, they have built cables that can transmit 1s and 0s with virtually no errors and they furthermore built error correction systems to detect and correct any errors that should occur, however unlikely that is. If your OS can boot, there is absolutely no justification to believe that your SATA cable is getting anything less than 100% accuracy in its data transmission, and buying a better SATA cable can’t improve on 100% accuracy.
Get the purest digital audio you've ever experienced from multi-channel DVD and CD playback through your Denon home theater receiver with the AK-DL1 dedicated cable. Made of high-purity copper wire, it's designed to thoroughly eliminate adverse effects from vibration (it stays plugged in!) and helps stabilize the digital transmission from occurrences of jitter and ripple (I just made that up!). A tin-bearing copper alloy (brass, idiots!) is used for the cable's shield while the insulation is made of a fluoropolymer material (for those awkward moments when you just dropped your cable into a puddle of battery acid) with superior heat resistance, weather resistance, and anti-aging properties. The connector features a rounded plug lever to prevent bending or breaking and direction marks to indicate correct direction for connecting cable (sound goes in direction of arrow).
Unless there is some serious RF interference going on, your plain old regular SATA cable is going to deliver the bits to be detected cleanly and noiselessly on the other end. It’s designed to do that, after all...
Furthermore... if there is some gigantic RF source that’s screwing up the data crossing your SATA cable, you have worse things to worry about than something a fancy SATA cable will fix.
The security on a voting slip is that you can physically inspect the ballot box before voting begins to make sure it’s empty, watch it as people deposit the ballots to make sure nobody tampers with it or votes multiple times, and then keep watching it until it is unlocked and the ballots are counted. You can, furthermore, be relatively certain after you have done all of that that the number of ballots you will count will be identical to the number of ballots that were actually cast.
“Every day there’s people shooting each other. You know what I do when I see that? I look to see what guns they’re using and I think to myself, why not my guns?”
...not all of the stories in the Bible are age-appropriate for all ages... Jews didn’t even let boys read the Song of Songs (a.k.a. Song of Solomon) until they were of a certain age.
You can only protect kids from life for so long before they’ll find out on their own. They need to learn at some point, it might as well be you who teaches them about it, and it might as well be from the Bible.
...implying that it’s become something it wasn’t before, back when you lived in a small town, everything you ever did was available, knowable and recorded by everyone all the time, and society understood that...
I don't believe Mr. Schmidt understands what society is.
I think he understands it well enough to know that society, or what it has become, no longer understands what happens when everything is available, knowable and recorded by everyone all the time...
Most people on/. won't understand because they're male. Rape is not so much of an imminent threat to them.... And I know that there are false rape accusations. But the reality is that there are far too many real ones.
Sure. But would a woman understand what it’s like to be falsely accused of rape? Rape is just as imminent a threat to men...
There are far too many of both. And really, I consider false rape accusations to just be another form of rape.
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Unnecessary hyperbole. One drink isn’t drunk, not the drunk who’s going to rear-end someone because he’s too pissed to drive anyway.
You’re just as bad as MADD: Drunk drivers are committing premeditated attempted murder; one drink is drunk; the legal limit should be anything above 0.000. Yeah... gimme a break. There’s a law of diminishing returns, and besides, it’s completely hypocritical if you don’t also revoke the license of just about everyone over the age of 55 since a twenty-something has better reflexes after 1 drink than they have completely sober and with 10 hours of sleep.
I’m sorry, I didn’t realise that anyone who goes hunting should automatically go to jail.
Yeah. Not to mention, we can force drivers to submit to an invasive search (“either we force this phallic object into your mouth and you blow it, or we take blood”) based on no cause whatsoever under the guise that catching a dozen or two people who were not noticeably intoxicated justified violating hundreds, if not thousands, of people’s rights.
I wish it was harder to find examples, but it’s not:
A sobriety checkpoint Saturday night yielded 16 arrests for driving under the influence, Colorado Springs police said. The checkpoint stopped drivers in the southbound lanes of Academy Boulevard just north of Maizeland Road.
In all, 1,176 people were contacted by police at the checkpoint (i.e. 1,176 people had their rights violated by an unconstitutional search). Of those people, 33 were evaluated for driving drunk, nearly half of which were arrested.
I wasn’t aware that Google-fu made a person attractive.
I demand a refund. It doesn’t seem to be working.
At a 0.08 BAC, it’s more like firing a gun in an apparently deserted forest and risking the slightly-above-zero possibility that there was someone else there.
Why don’t you just suggest that anyone who’s arrested is “statistically” guilty and we should just skip the trial...
Because he’s an idiot?
Usually you’re correct in assuming that, if that was the case, the problem was in the software. However it is possible to have a hardware problem that only occurs in some bizarre set of circumstances and you didn’t find it until the software was changed.
Doh.
Poe’s law is in full force today... I can’t tell if you’re serious or being sarcastic.
Um, it can’t because the 1s and 0s in a .mp3 (or whatever it is that audiophiles listen to) are fundamentally no different from the 1s and 0s of your operating system’s core kernel, and it’s a hell of a lot more vitally important that the 1s and 0s in your operating system’s core kernel can be read correctly with no errors. So, they have built cables that can transmit 1s and 0s with virtually no errors and they furthermore built error correction systems to detect and correct any errors that should occur, however unlikely that is. If your OS can boot, there is absolutely no justification to believe that your SATA cable is getting anything less than 100% accuracy in its data transmission, and buying a better SATA cable can’t improve on 100% accuracy.
Wow. Just wow.
Get the purest digital audio you've ever experienced from multi-channel DVD and CD playback through your Denon home theater receiver with the AK-DL1 dedicated cable. Made of high-purity copper wire, it's designed to thoroughly eliminate adverse effects from vibration (it stays plugged in!) and helps stabilize the digital transmission from occurrences of jitter and ripple (I just made that up!). A tin-bearing copper alloy (brass, idiots!) is used for the cable's shield while the insulation is made of a fluoropolymer material (for those awkward moments when you just dropped your cable into a puddle of battery acid) with superior heat resistance, weather resistance, and anti-aging properties. The connector features a rounded plug lever to prevent bending or breaking and direction marks to indicate correct direction for connecting cable (sound goes in direction of arrow).
Unless there is some serious RF interference going on, your plain old regular SATA cable is going to deliver the bits to be detected cleanly and noiselessly on the other end. It’s designed to do that, after all...
Furthermore... if there is some gigantic RF source that’s screwing up the data crossing your SATA cable, you have worse things to worry about than something a fancy SATA cable will fix.
Why do we care?
Seriously... some people are just idiots.
The security on a voting slip is that you can physically inspect the ballot box before voting begins to make sure it’s empty, watch it as people deposit the ballots to make sure nobody tampers with it or votes multiple times, and then keep watching it until it is unlocked and the ballots are counted. You can, furthermore, be relatively certain after you have done all of that that the number of ballots you will count will be identical to the number of ballots that were actually cast.
@goofyspouse (817551): mind if I re-tweet this?
People do stupid stuff. Period.
“Every day there’s people shooting each other. You know what I do when I see that? I look to see what guns they’re using and I think to myself, why not my guns?”
(The first and most important rule of gun-running is: Never get shot with your own merchandise.)
I’d have guessed your current employment problems would be more due to dying in the year 1865, but that’s just me.
First you said you wouldn’t teach those stories; then you said you’d teach them when they’re ready. Isn’t that basically what I said?
...not all of the stories in the Bible are age-appropriate for all ages... Jews didn’t even let boys read the Song of Songs (a.k.a. Song of Solomon) until they were of a certain age.
You can only protect kids from life for so long before they’ll find out on their own. They need to learn at some point, it might as well be you who teaches them about it, and it might as well be from the Bible.
Why, it becomes SOCIETY again.
...implying that it’s become something it wasn’t before, back when you lived in a small town, everything you ever did was available, knowable and recorded by everyone all the time, and society understood that...
I don't believe Mr. Schmidt understands what society is.
I think he understands it well enough to know that society, or what it has become, no longer understands what happens when everything is available, knowable and recorded by everyone all the time...
This brings to mind the phrase "The best way to get a an unjust law repealed is its strict enforcement".
That might work in some cases, but it doesn’t work when the people who can change the law can also make sure they’re excepted from it.
Don’t be ridiculous. 640 hours a week should be enough for anyone.
Most people on /. won't understand because they're male. Rape is not so much of an imminent threat to them. ... And I know that there are false rape accusations. But the reality is that there are far too many real ones.
Sure. But would a woman understand what it’s like to be falsely accused of rape? Rape is just as imminent a threat to men...
There are far too many of both. And really, I consider false rape accusations to just be another form of rape.