These days? It may be more common now, but thirty years ago, I heard two professors remark how "[this] University would be a great place to work, if we didn't have to deal with students", and they were not trying to be funny. They were having some kind of carp-and-moan session about their research projects being impacted by having to teach classes. I realize these two clowns don't represent all professors at all universities, and they didn't represent a majority of the professors I had, but the "Money, please. Screw you very much!" attitude has been around for a long time.
Same experience, different word. There is a transportation company in, I think, Puerto Rico, called "Kike Transportation." The filters don't like that either.
If it was an opt-in, I might, might, be interested. Not for my family, but for NPOs that can't afford a subscription to a commercial service. For the kids, I found that age appropriate supervision and education worked best.
Go read my post again. I said NOTHING about the accuracy of the machine. I said that a good operator can tell if you are trying to prevent them from establishing a baseline. That does not imply that the operator can tell when you are lying.
Actually, I agree with you. Our office was considering polygraph testing at one point, and I told them that I would not take it. My limited exposure to them in college psychology class convinced me they were not reliable. That is where I determined the operator can tell if you try to screw up the baseline, and not by some stupid "Scotty, Lie to me. How old are you?" bullshit. Flex muscles, change breathing, clamp the sensor for skin conductivity, as subtle as possible, and the man picked it up on every attempt. Three of us tried it, and nobody but us knew ahead of time we were going to try.
Dr. Phil is a dick.
The real failure of the machine, and what was shown the in psychology class, is that if you are an actor, pathological liar, or equivalent, you don't have the same reaction as someone that is afraid of the machine, and because it does not directly detect lies, it is easily fooled.
About the images, you are quite right. I was joking. I participated in tests on subliminal messages in college too.
I dunno. If I were on my way to a rendezvous with 72 virgins, "happy" might describe it, but "calm" sure would not. Well, it would not have when I was in college. At my age, I have to take half a Viagra just to talk dirty. Maybe they need to develop a machine that detects if someone is going through the line while gettin' chubby.
Yep. Also, depth of respiration, skin resistance, and blood pressure.
A good operator can usually tell if someone is deliberately trying to prevent them from establishing a baseline, but people with something to hide used to carry a thumbtack to poke their fingers with during questioning. It was supposed to allow them to concentrate on the pain instead of the questions, and prevent, or mask, the emotional/physical response that the machine could pick up. Then someone got caught and the operators would check for poke marks in the skin.
I guess one could concentrate on a mental image of Sarah Palin in a nipple bra to counter the Bin Laden image. Or, Dick Cheney as a Chippendale dancer.
I always thought that in America, a jury was a jury of peers
Flapping was too much of a problem, so now only the jury foreman gets an AS number.
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Sorry, but I can not go along with that. If the city I live in ran everything like they do the water system, I would have limited phone, cable TV, and power on weekends. May work some places, but not here.
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No, your view is not flawed. HOAs can act as another form of government, but without the expected restraints because they are private organizations. When I am in the market for a home, a HOA is a deal killer. Restrictive covenants are bad enough. I will not live in a house where someone can tell me that my mower deck is set too high, or too low. When you have a person that will go around measuring the height of lawns, there is no end to the trouble they could cause with a network.
I thought this (hijacked) discussion hinged on already being under attack by the bear. If I was not under attack, I would not shoot the bear.
However, if I was in a position where I had to shoot a bear with a 12ga, I would expect it to die, not continue the attack. While I have never seen a bear shot at close range with a shotgun, I have seen a variety of other animals, both thick skinned and thin skinned, on the receiving end. I have seen a lion shot in the face with buckshot, and it removed ears, most of the skin, nose, both eyes, several of the teeth, and parts of the tongue. I have seen a hog shot in the neck with a shotgun where the trachea, esophagus, and arteries were severed. I was not there when it happened, but I saw the results, and the people that were there said the animals dropped like rocks.
People think of a shotgun as a "bird gun", but the shotgun is one of the most powerful guns there is. I lost the link, but the Alaska state park web site says that if you want a gun for bear protection, get something that will stop one, such as a 12ga or.300 magnum. That should give some idea of the close range power of a shotgun.
Shotguns effective range is less than that of a rifle, but at 15 to 20 yards they can be far more devastating. An ounce and a half of lead coming out a pipe three-quarters of an inch in diameter, moving at 1200 feet per second might bounce off a bear skull, but it will also rip his face off. All of it. A shot in the throat would remove most of it, and probably damage the spinal column. Never underestimate a shotgun at close range.
What about reversing it? Like make a water tower above it funneling down to a spicket with a fitting for the tube in the end?
Possibly. A better solution would be to use a larger filter, as Tastecicles described. Even with a high end filter like those sold by REI and others, I like to use a coffee filter as the first stage to get as much grit as possible out first. But, I still found the straws useless in real life.
Have you ever tried one of these straws? Even with clean water, you will collapse your asshole trying to suck anything through them. I used to think they were a slick idea, until I tried one.
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Analogies form in the mind of submitters and editors of slashdot the same way driftwood washes up in the beaches of South Carolina.
Soaking wet, and surrounded by syringes and condoms?
No, thanks. The last thing I would ever do is voluntarily is, go to The Huffington Post.
Ok, that's not strictly true. Tubgirl, goatse, and the like are tied for the last place, but THP is not that far away.
These days? It may be more common now, but thirty years ago, I heard two professors remark how "[this] University would be a great place to work, if we didn't have to deal with students", and they were not trying to be funny. They were having some kind of carp-and-moan session about their research projects being impacted by having to teach classes. I realize these two clowns don't represent all professors at all universities, and they didn't represent a majority of the professors I had, but the "Money, please. Screw you very much!" attitude has been around for a long time.
That's a warning from management to the screeners, not the people waiting to be screened.
Same experience, different word. There is a transportation company in, I think, Puerto Rico, called "Kike Transportation." The filters don't like that either.
... or the FBI (who knows about those magazines under your bed too).
Why does the FBI care about "Information Week"? I sure as hell don't, but it just keeps on showing up in the mail box no matter how much I ignore it.
I believe the douche you are looking for is Carl Icahn.
If it was an opt-in, I might, might, be interested. Not for my family, but for NPOs that can't afford a subscription to a commercial service. For the kids, I found that age appropriate supervision and education worked best.
Go read my post again. I said NOTHING about the accuracy of the machine. I said that a good operator can tell if you are trying to prevent them from establishing a baseline. That does not imply that the operator can tell when you are lying.
Actually, I agree with you. Our office was considering polygraph testing at one point, and I told them that I would not take it. My limited exposure to them in college psychology class convinced me they were not reliable. That is where I determined the operator can tell if you try to screw up the baseline, and not by some stupid "Scotty, Lie to me. How old are you?" bullshit. Flex muscles, change breathing, clamp the sensor for skin conductivity, as subtle as possible, and the man picked it up on every attempt. Three of us tried it, and nobody but us knew ahead of time we were going to try.
Dr. Phil is a dick.
The real failure of the machine, and what was shown the in psychology class, is that if you are an actor, pathological liar, or equivalent, you don't have the same reaction as someone that is afraid of the machine, and because it does not directly detect lies, it is easily fooled.
About the images, you are quite right. I was joking. I participated in tests on subliminal messages in college too.
I dunno. If I were on my way to a rendezvous with 72 virgins, "happy" might describe it, but "calm" sure would not. Well, it would not have when I was in college. At my age, I have to take half a Viagra just to talk dirty. Maybe they need to develop a machine that detects if someone is going through the line while gettin' chubby.
Yep. Also, depth of respiration, skin resistance, and blood pressure.
A good operator can usually tell if someone is deliberately trying to prevent them from establishing a baseline, but people with something to hide used to carry a thumbtack to poke their fingers with during questioning. It was supposed to allow them to concentrate on the pain instead of the questions, and prevent, or mask, the emotional/physical response that the machine could pick up. Then someone got caught and the operators would check for poke marks in the skin.
I guess one could concentrate on a mental image of Sarah Palin in a nipple bra to counter the Bin Laden image. Or, Dick Cheney as a Chippendale dancer.
Must...poke...out...mind's...eye....
Interesting choice of words when talking about getting better grades. :)
I always thought that in America, a jury was a jury of peers
Flapping was too much of a problem, so now only the jury foreman gets an AS number.
Sorry, but I can not go along with that. If the city I live in ran everything like they do the water system, I would have limited phone, cable TV, and power on weekends. May work some places, but not here.
No, your view is not flawed. HOAs can act as another form of government, but without the expected restraints because they are private organizations. When I am in the market for a home, a HOA is a deal killer. Restrictive covenants are bad enough. I will not live in a house where someone can tell me that my mower deck is set too high, or too low. When you have a person that will go around measuring the height of lawns, there is no end to the trouble they could cause with a network.
New acronym? HOAN?
Because it is so difficult to tell the waitperson, "Separate checks please" before you order. What's next, a patent on belching words?
I thought this (hijacked) discussion hinged on already being under attack by the bear. If I was not under attack, I would not shoot the bear.
However, if I was in a position where I had to shoot a bear with a 12ga, I would expect it to die, not continue the attack. While I have never seen a bear shot at close range with a shotgun, I have seen a variety of other animals, both thick skinned and thin skinned, on the receiving end. I have seen a lion shot in the face with buckshot, and it removed ears, most of the skin, nose, both eyes, several of the teeth, and parts of the tongue. I have seen a hog shot in the neck with a shotgun where the trachea, esophagus, and arteries were severed. I was not there when it happened, but I saw the results, and the people that were there said the animals dropped like rocks.
People think of a shotgun as a "bird gun", but the shotgun is one of the most powerful guns there is. I lost the link, but the Alaska state park web site says that if you want a gun for bear protection, get something that will stop one, such as a 12ga or .300 magnum. That should give some idea of the close range power of a shotgun.
Shotguns effective range is less than that of a rifle, but at 15 to 20 yards they can be far more devastating. An ounce and a half of lead coming out a pipe three-quarters of an inch in diameter, moving at 1200 feet per second might bounce off a bear skull, but it will also rip his face off. All of it. A shot in the throat would remove most of it, and probably damage the spinal column. Never underestimate a shotgun at close range.
Guitar amps go to 11.
Virus warnings go to 0xF
Frozen stiff?
Of course it was in my mouth. What do you think I was trying to do? Smuggle it into prison? :-)
What about reversing it? Like make a water tower above it funneling down to a spicket with a fitting for the tube in the end?
Possibly. A better solution would be to use a larger filter, as Tastecicles described. Even with a high end filter like those sold by REI and others, I like to use a coffee filter as the first stage to get as much grit as possible out first. But, I still found the straws useless in real life.
Have you ever tried one of these straws? Even with clean water, you will collapse your asshole trying to suck anything through them. I used to think they were a slick idea, until I tried one.
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