You can judge people with your intuition, but I prefer to judge people based on my intelligence and logic skills. I don't need to know what you look like in order to judge you, I can tell merely by the type of arguments and reasoning you use.
Precisely why Lady Liberty is often shown wearing a blindfold.
Of course, she had no way of knowing he was coming back.
According to the report, she stated that she knew he would come back.
He was in her room 2 different times on that night and he had previously been known to come into her room while she slept: “she had woken up to find him standing in her room before, and felt that it was about to happen again”.
He also told her to leave her door “open”. I am not sure if this means wide open or only unlocked... my inclination would be to expect that it means unlocked, but in that case I don’t know why she wouldn’t have at least tried to lock her door after fighting him off the first time. Now I wonder if she might not have had a lock on her door at all, and leaving the door open might have been so that he could check up on her more easily (making sure she was still in bed?).
At least in the neighborhoods around where I am this will get police to your (approximate) location even if all you do is dial it and hang up.
Probably within a half-hour to a few hours, depending on how busy they are. Maybe even the next day.
Since he was quite possibly right outside her door she probably didn’t want to be making any noise, so talking to a 911 operator would’ve also been less desirable than sending a silent text-message.
Of course, as others have already pointed out, she didn’t have the cell phone anyway – but her assailant hadn’t realised she could get on the internet using her iPod.
More significant IMHO was the fact that although he had confiscated her cell phone he failed to realise that she had an iPod and/or that it was internet-connected.
In short, a child of age 12 cannot possess a firearm without a parent or guardian being around or giving explicit permission.
Unless done for target practice or in self-defense, or on land owned by or occupied as the principle residence of the parent or guardian of the child. According to your own words and quotations. Just saying.
In other words, your kid can know that you have a handgun, be trained in its proper and safe use, and even use it in self-defense if they are ever threatened in their own home while you’re not there.
The only people who are going to voluntarily come and hand over their guns are the grannies, and then you’ll just have 10 grannies who were raped by an assailant with a gun and one granny who was raped by an assailant with a knife.
Your argument is a slippery slope. Owning a gun does not inevitably mean that you’ll be tempted to use it to murder someone (much less actually use it to murder someone), nor does it inevitably mean that it’ll be used on you eventually.
You could replace “guns” with butcher knives, baseball bats, crowbars, or just about any other weapon and your statement would be just as fallacious.
In the meantime, <strike>र</strike> is a pretty fair representation (or would be, if Slashdot allowed HTML strike-through text decoration or HTML character entities).
I wasn’t counting them because quotation marks really aren’t used so much for emphasis as they are to set something off as a distinct thing. I suppose that could be used as a form of emphasis but it didn’t really strike me as one when I read his comment.
If we are going to count them, we might as well count ‘single’ and “double” quotes as two distinct ways (and count parentheses and exclamation marks as well!).
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That's the bare minimum if you are using 1 GB = 8,000,000,000 bits.
Actually I was using 1 gigabyte = 8 gigabits. Then divide by 1 Gbps to get seconds, then by 3,600 to get hours.
So yeah, I had forgotten that 1 Gbps = 1,000,000,000 bits per second but 1 GB = 1,073,741,824 bits.
Actually it replaces a select few with their HTML character code equivalents, then strips out everything else so that it is 8-bit text. For some reason it also strips out unrecognised HTML character codes (even if they should render a recognised character, such as A).
Some of the ones which I know of that it recognises: a variety of accented letters (e.g. â ü ý), en- and em-dashes (– and —), Euro and Pound currency signs (€ and £), basic fractions (¼, ½, ¾), curly quotation marks (‘ ’ “ ”). However it irritatingly does not recognise the degree symbol (°) or the horizontal ellipsis (…). The angle brackets ( < > ) typically should be encoded as their character code equivalents to avoid them being interpreted as HTML (a lone < will be stripped out to avoid breaking the HTML whereas a lone > is rendered normally). Of course, the ampersand (&) does not usually need to be encoded but if it is necessary it can be encoded as a character code (&), and the quotation mark (") never really needs to be encoded in Slashdot postings but you could if you wanted (").
To see the encoding of the characters in my post, press Reply and then Quote Parent.
The proper abbreviation is Rp, and it has its own Unicode character, U+20A8. If Slashdot supported it, you could type it as the HTML character code ₨.
As far as the new symbol, it is a composite of the Devanagari letter Ra (the first letter of the Hindi word for “rupee” in the Devanagari script) superimposed with the Roman letter R (the first letter of the word in the International Alphabet of Sanskrit Transliteration scheme) without the vertical bar.
The word “rupee” itself is derived from a Sanskrit word which meant a wrought piece of silver or a silver coin.
P.S. AltGr is mapped to the right Alt key and is actually a Ctrl+Alt key. This also means, naturally, that any Ctrl+Alt hotkey combination (except Ctrl+Alt+Delete) can be typed with the AltGr key instead.
If your keyboard doesn’t say “AltGr” on the right Alt key you can still assign a European layout in the system language settings and the right Alt will become the AltGr key. The left Alt key will still be the normal Alt key.
So they figure they’re giving you a full week’s worth of news for only the price of the Sunday edition of the paper. Good deal, no?
Or you could look at it differently. For £2, you can get: (a) week-long access to the online edition of the paper (b) week-long access to the online edition plus a physical copy of each Sunday edition
Yeah, they want you to pay the same amount and get less. Not seeming like such a good deal anymore...
From “arrow, ctrl, +, and - keys”, I get the impression he thinks you just give them a massive JPEG and let their browser handle the panning and zooming rather than using “extra software” such as a Javascript app or a Silverlight or Flash object.
It means that your brain isn’t trying to recombine the sounds properly. Switch the audio mode to mono and playback the same file to have the computer combine the tracks and if you still can’t hear a beat then you must have broken the universe.
The brain tries to recombine the sounds from the left and right ear to form one panorama of sound with a sense of direction. Just like it tries to recombine the images from the left and right eye to form one image with a sense of depth.
To deliver 800 GB worth of stitched-together composite images to users in a fashion that doesn’t result in them dying of old age before they can identify and zoom in on a portion worth seeing up-close?
Playing devil's advocate -- it's pretty trivial to make a Silverlight interface to pan and zoom around a giant image like this. It's less trivial to do the same thing with, say, JavaScript or Flash.
Only until someone writes a Javascript library that does it. Then it becomes trivially easy to do it in Javascript.
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The man is 100% to blame for his actions.
The mom is 100% to blame for having her daughter where the scumbag could get his hands on her.
You can judge people with your intuition, but I prefer to judge people based on my intelligence and logic skills. I don't need to know what you look like in order to judge you, I can tell merely by the type of arguments and reasoning you use.
Precisely why Lady Liberty is often shown wearing a blindfold.
Of course, she had no way of knowing he was coming back.
According to the report, she stated that she knew he would come back.
He was in her room 2 different times on that night and he had previously been known to come into her room while she slept: “she had woken up to find him standing in her room before, and felt that it was about to happen again”.
He also told her to leave her door “open”. I am not sure if this means wide open or only unlocked... my inclination would be to expect that it means unlocked, but in that case I don’t know why she wouldn’t have at least tried to lock her door after fighting him off the first time. Now I wonder if she might not have had a lock on her door at all, and leaving the door open might have been so that he could check up on her more easily (making sure she was still in bed?).
At least in the neighborhoods around where I am this will get police to your (approximate) location even if all you do is dial it and hang up.
Probably within a half-hour to a few hours, depending on how busy they are. Maybe even the next day.
Since he was quite possibly right outside her door she probably didn’t want to be making any noise, so talking to a 911 operator would’ve also been less desirable than sending a silent text-message.
Of course, as others have already pointed out, she didn’t have the cell phone anyway – but her assailant hadn’t realised she could get on the internet using her iPod.
More significant IMHO was the fact that although he had confiscated her cell phone he failed to realise that she had an iPod and/or that it was internet-connected.
In short, a child of age 12 cannot possess a firearm without a parent or guardian being around or giving explicit permission.
Unless done for target practice or in self-defense, or on land owned by or occupied as the principle residence of the parent or guardian of the child. According to your own words and quotations. Just saying.
In other words, your kid can know that you have a handgun, be trained in its proper and safe use, and even use it in self-defense if they are ever threatened in their own home while you’re not there.
How? Fucking magic?
The only people who are going to voluntarily come and hand over their guns are the grannies, and then you’ll just have 10 grannies who were raped by an assailant with a gun and one granny who was raped by an assailant with a knife.
Your argument is a slippery slope. Owning a gun does not inevitably mean that you’ll be tempted to use it to murder someone (much less actually use it to murder someone), nor does it inevitably mean that it’ll be used on you eventually.
You could replace “guns” with butcher knives, baseball bats, crowbars, or just about any other weapon and your statement would be just as fallacious.
He had planned far enough ahead to have taken away her cell phone; she was still able to get on Facebook from her iPod. That is the real story here.
Her mom was actually already on the way by the time she called because she’d already gotten the message via Facebook.
Finally, since the guy had threatened to “use” her whenever he wanted, time was of prime importance to prevent a possible second attack.
On an unrelated note... sexually assaulting a 12-year-old girl only gets you a $175,000 bail? That’s all?
In the meantime, <strike>र</strike> is a pretty fair representation (or would be, if Slashdot allowed HTML strike-through text decoration or HTML character entities).
Another possibility is र̵.
I wasn’t counting them because quotation marks really aren’t used so much for emphasis as they are to set something off as a distinct thing. I suppose that could be used as a form of emphasis but it didn’t really strike me as one when I read his comment.
If we are going to count them, we might as well count ‘single’ and “double” quotes as two distinct ways (and count parentheses and exclamation marks as well!).
That's the bare minimum if you are using 1 GB = 8,000,000,000 bits.
Actually I was using 1 gigabyte = 8 gigabits. Then divide by 1 Gbps to get seconds, then by 3,600 to get hours.
So yeah, I had forgotten that 1 Gbps = 1,000,000,000 bits per second but 1 GB = 1,073,741,824 bits.
I honestly can’t tell if you’re being sarcastic or not.
Actually it replaces a select few with their HTML character code equivalents, then strips out everything else so that it is 8-bit text. For some reason it also strips out unrecognised HTML character codes (even if they should render a recognised character, such as A).
Some of the ones which I know of that it recognises: a variety of accented letters (e.g. â ü ý), en- and em-dashes (– and —), Euro and Pound currency signs (€ and £), basic fractions (¼, ½, ¾), curly quotation marks (‘ ’ “ ”). However it irritatingly does not recognise the degree symbol (°) or the horizontal ellipsis (…). The angle brackets ( < > ) typically should be encoded as their character code equivalents to avoid them being interpreted as HTML (a lone < will be stripped out to avoid breaking the HTML whereas a lone > is rendered normally). Of course, the ampersand (&) does not usually need to be encoded but if it is necessary it can be encoded as a character code (&), and the quotation mark (") never really needs to be encoded in Slashdot postings but you could if you wanted (").
To see the encoding of the characters in my post, press Reply and then Quote Parent.
The proper abbreviation is Rp, and it has its own Unicode character, U+20A8. If Slashdot supported it, you could type it as the HTML character code ₨.
As far as the new symbol, it is a composite of the Devanagari letter Ra (the first letter of the Hindi word for “rupee” in the Devanagari script) superimposed with the Roman letter R (the first letter of the word in the International Alphabet of Sanskrit Transliteration scheme) without the vertical bar.
The word “rupee” itself is derived from a Sanskrit word which meant a wrought piece of silver or a silver coin.
P.S. AltGr is mapped to the right Alt key and is actually a Ctrl+Alt key. This also means, naturally, that any Ctrl+Alt hotkey combination (except Ctrl+Alt+Delete) can be typed with the AltGr key instead.
If your keyboard doesn’t say “AltGr” on the right Alt key you can still assign a European layout in the system language settings and the right Alt will become the AltGr key. The left Alt key will still be the normal Alt key.
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Not even Alcohol 120%?
So they figure they’re giving you a full week’s worth of news for only the price of the Sunday edition of the paper. Good deal, no?
Or you could look at it differently. For £2, you can get:
(a) week-long access to the online edition of the paper
(b) week-long access to the online edition plus a physical copy of each Sunday edition
Yeah, they want you to pay the same amount and get less. Not seeming like such a good deal anymore...
From “arrow, ctrl, +, and - keys”, I get the impression he thinks you just give them a massive JPEG and let their browser handle the panning and zooming rather than using “extra software” such as a Javascript app or a Silverlight or Flash object.
It means that your brain isn’t trying to recombine the sounds properly. Switch the audio mode to mono and playback the same file to have the computer combine the tracks and if you still can’t hear a beat then you must have broken the universe.
The brain tries to recombine the sounds from the left and right ear to form one panorama of sound with a sense of direction. Just like it tries to recombine the images from the left and right eye to form one image with a sense of depth.
To deliver 800 GB worth of stitched-together composite images to users in a fashion that doesn’t result in them dying of old age before they can identify and zoom in on a portion worth seeing up-close?
I count four: *asterisks*, bold, Title Case, and ALL CAPITALS. Five if you count permutations of more than one (Bold Title Case).
£1 per day, or £2 per week for the website alone – no clue what the actual paper subscription costs. Does anybody know? Also, is it weekly or daily?
Playing devil's advocate -- it's pretty trivial to make a Silverlight interface to pan and zoom around a giant image like this. It's less trivial to do the same thing with, say, JavaScript or Flash.
Only until someone writes a Javascript library that does it. Then it becomes trivially easy to do it in Javascript.