Not really new by any stretch. It is part of our Puritan heritage at this point. The social media sites all have those policies so that they can censor what they find objectionable, they aren't the government so while we can ridicule them for it they aren't legally beholden to anyone to empower this kind of speech. That said this article is about a news agency, errr I mean entertainment company, hosting the video online. I haven't actually seen any links hosted by any of the social media web sites, and I wouldn't expect them to last long if they showed up there.
If his grades weren't stellar then an entire week of suspension could easily tank his grade for a semester if the timing was bad. Some teachers assign grade proportions differently but I remember a few in particular that pegged 30% of a semesters grade on an exam. If you are under suspension then you aren't usually allowed to make up any grading activities that fall in that time.
Suspension, in my opinion, has to be the most idiotic form of punishment in school. It only actually punishes kids that care.
This strikes me as a great opportunity to use delivery via cheap drone. Although I suppose that would mean you'd need a delivery person of your own on the customers end which kills the advantage of an online seller. And it wouldn't have saved this guy anyways since he was busted picking up his product.
I hadn't heard about this previously. If the owners of those businesses can't use banks what are they doing with all that money? Or is it just that they can't use banks for the transactions but are still able to make deposits at the end of the day?
I would add that it also doesn't matter whether or not the cream of the crop includes females, although I see no legitimate reason it wouldn't. It isn't like you have to land a job at Google or some other huge tech company to be successful. I don't know a single programmer that was honing their craft at a young age unless you mean learning to think in a logical fashion. My Father has worked writing assembly code for mainframes for most of his career and all of the really succesful places he worked focused on hiring people based on practically everything other than their technical programming skills.
Muslim vs Muslim can still play into their favor if they can define it as one sect vs another. It may not be as effective as Muslim vs foreign christian invaders, but it could still be considered a win.
I'm not a fan of the Koch brothers but no one is all evil or all goodness and light. I disagree with the Koch's political spending, but we can still acknowledge the good some of their charitable giving does. As a parent of small children I've noticed that focusing solely on the negative behaviours does nothing to prevent it, while a more balanced approach seems to get better results.
It's been a few years but the US military used to require the flu vaccine every year. And it's not like you could just opt out and take an admin discharge.
Disney is for idiots and children. I don't think that being rich or poor has much to do with it. I've known plenty of poor people that spent far more than I would judge appropriate on trips to disney. Disney also employes a ton of poor people to work at their parks, and enough of them not being vaccinated probably helped spread the measles. I obviously am not a fan of disney, so maybe I'm a little biased, but trust me, they draw in customers from all social classes.
Sadly in my experience none of that really works until the child does actually burn themselves. They may get sneakier about whatever behaviour it is you're trying to curb but until they hurt themselves they'll usually keep on doing it. Kids can be oh so smart and incredibly stupid all at the same time, I'm convinced it's part of their charm.
It depends. The state I live in forces all home schooling to be done through a religous institution. There are a number of churches that will gladly take your money to sanction your homeschooling, but there is no option for someone who doesn't want to pay that tax to a church to home school. I'll grant you that a lot of home schoolers are doing it to avoid evolution and whatever other things they disagree with. But I can tell you that all of the public high schools where I live are complete shit except the "Magnet" schools which are extremely competitive, focused on specific disciplines, and will give you the boot for a single non excellent grade or disciplinary action. So far as private schools go the same is true in my observations they are all tied directly to some religous institution or another. In the end if any one of my children doesn't seem to be able to hack it at the Magnet schools I'll probably relocate to anywhere else that doesn't have a completely broken school system.
My kids are vacinated for most everything they can be. But even if you look at measles, which is the current panic disease, the mortality rates are a joke. Something like 1 in a thousand cases in the years before vaccination was mortal. With modern health care I would expect it to be even less. The risk that non-vacinated kids pose is laughable at best, and it's not like vaccination results in 100% immunity anyways. If you're immune compromised, that sucks, but let's face it you are incredibly likely to die from something like the flu anyways. The massive amounts of public panic over that risk going up a few percentage points is completely unwarranted in my opinion.
I'm always bemused by the bad quality of live performances and recordings, and that's mainly because I've heard plenty of really good ones as well. I went to a concert once where 3 acts were playing. For the first and last act the sound guys seemed to be right on point, but for the middle act it was borked all to hell. That act needed the vocals to be louder than the instruments but as it was you could barely hear the singer at all.
A few years ago my wife was pretty into America's Got Talent and I'd watch it periodically with her because some of the acts were actually amusing. But several times they'd have a singer that sounded awful or at best mediocre, but the crowd and the judges went wild for them and praised them to no end. All I could figure was that the sound guys scewed it up and the recording didn't do the performance justice.
Sadly not really an option in all states. Where I live all cars have to be currently plated and registered. Even if you've had it parked in your backyard under a tarp for the last decade it in theory has to have a plate on it. That plate is also not supposed to be covered by anything, even those translucent plastic plate covers are a violation. That said though you could always just slap one of those white cardboard "tag applied for" things over your plate, and probably avoid detection by the automated readers or arousing suspicion.
I don't really know that it's all that unjustified of a paranoia. The California Legislature a few years back expanded the list of convictions that prohibited gun ownership. They did not notify registered gun owners which were affected by this change and instead started serving warrants with SWAT teams.
They chalked it up as plausible because there are historical accounts of it being done succesfully. They were not able to replicate the results but that of course doesn't mean it isn't possible. Using a thermal lance would probably work in some cases and not in others depending on the construction of the safe. In the Mythbusters case it took longer with the lance than they expected and the heat from the lance destroyed the contents of the safe. Their safe was also very leaky such that just filling it with water was problematic, meaning a lot of the pressure from the detonation was probably able to escape without doing any damage. Provided you can fill the safe with water without destroying the contents and minimal leakage, I'd give the method a good chance of success.
So what you're saying is that the internet has always been an internet of things? From its earliest implementation a terminal would sense input (usually from a human), relay that information if appropriate to a remote computer over a network. The remote computer would receive the traffic and respond in whatever way it was programed.
To me this is just another stupid buzzword/phrase just like the cloud. People, usually marketers just keep coming up with new words for things that have been around for a while in an attempt to drum up more business.
Meh, there really aren't that many social obstacles that I can see. I haven't had a cell phone for over six years and very rarely have I missed it, primarily when I'm at the store and can't remeber if we need something or not. That very minor inconveince is certainly not worth the excessive cost of a cell phone, in my opinion.
I did own a cell phone for many years mainly because I had the money and it was the cool thing to have. Looking back at it now though I really wish I had just saved that money and used it for pretty much anything else. I've a landline at home so telemarketers can call to annoy me, and so that family can contact me via voice if they really must. Actually now that I think of it my work requires that I have a phone number, I wonder if that means I can deduct the minimal cost of my landline as a business expense.
I think the risk is overblown, honestly. I looked up the FBI stats recently and they only managed to identify 50% or so of the suspects, that's not even apprehend, just identify. The money while not awesome is tax free so goes a bit further than a salary of the same amount. It also doesn't preclude having a regular job or earning money through other means.
I think the safer bet though would be to steal armored cars transporting large sums of money. Take out the guards using tear gas and bean bag shotguns. Load the whole truck into a faraday cage in a larger truck and take it somewhere safe to unload and sort out the dye packs.
Headshots are a bad idea for legal reasons as well as practical.
1. It's a much smaller target. 2. Armor piercing rounds, or rounds that are more likely to penetrate aren't that hard to come by. 3. In the event you deliberately shoot someone in the head the lawyers will want to know why you risked your life on a much harder shot. If you were so skilled that a headshot would be as likely to succede as a body shot, then why did you not aim for an arm or leg to disable instead of kill. Even if you avoid criminal charges you can be sure you'll spend all your money defending a wrongful death civil suit.
If you really think you are that good then you should be able to place a couple chest shots with a third in the head zippering up, and claim that the headshot was just muzzle rise.
It isn't always about making a ton of money in the short term. Many people do things that boggle the mind purely out of egotism. Although in this case it can lead to wealth as well. If you had polled gamers here on/. a day before this all started you might have seen a 1% result showing that they knew who Quinn was or had even heard of her before. And you might have gotten as high as 10% for Grayson seeing as how he is a writer for RPS, I doubt it'd be that high, but I'm being generous with my guess.
If you did a poll now I'd bet the results for Quinn would be over 50% at the very least, if not closer to 80%. Grayson would probably only poll around 40% as his name isn't brought up as frequently in all the vitrol. People in the business of selling things know that name recognition is a huge part of increasing sales. You can bet dollars to donuts that whatever either one of them touches from now on will get a lot more attention. Honestly it's a genius move on Quinn's part, even if only a small fraction of people who hear about the whole mess look favorably on her that represents a huge increase in people who know who she is and have a positive view of her.
It wouldn't stop the spread in a binary fashion but it would reduce the amount of spreading. Usually when you start getting the full blown symptoms for whatever disease you become much more contagious.
On top of that if they had good healthcare options they would likely end up diagnosed much faster. Which would lead to the outbreak being recognized faster. I wouldn't be surprised if an employer like Disney doing those two things could reduce the spread of disease and illness through their parks by a factor of ten or better. And this outbreak may just provide them with the commercial interest in finally doing that.
Not completely true. When a chip draws less power to perform the same functions you can the push the clock, because consuming less power means less waste heat. As you raise the clock you get more speed. There is of course a balance to be struck, but ragardless figuring out how to accomplish the same work with less power will allow you to push the performance before hitting the limit of your heat disipation capabilities.
I've been using a 550 Ti for the last three years and it's been great. It could be better I suppose but I'm not some elite gamer that needs 60 FPS no matter what, or photo realistic video quality.
That said I just worked a weekend and holiday so had a little extra cash coming this paycheck so I ordered my EVGA 960 lastnight. While the performance may not be spectacularly better than the previous generation it will be a big upgrade for me, and with it's lower power requirements it'll fit nicely in my computer without disrupting anything. Since it is newer it'll also be supported for longer and I can use some of the newer stuff like nVidia's free screen recording software. In a couple years I expect I'll want to upgrade the rest of my computer and I should be able to reuse this 960, and I'll be able to put the 550 back in and hand the old PC to the kids.
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Not really new by any stretch. It is part of our Puritan heritage at this point. The social media sites all have those policies so that they can censor what they find objectionable, they aren't the government so while we can ridicule them for it they aren't legally beholden to anyone to empower this kind of speech. That said this article is about a news agency, errr I mean entertainment company, hosting the video online. I haven't actually seen any links hosted by any of the social media web sites, and I wouldn't expect them to last long if they showed up there.
If his grades weren't stellar then an entire week of suspension could easily tank his grade for a semester if the timing was bad. Some teachers assign grade proportions differently but I remember a few in particular that pegged 30% of a semesters grade on an exam. If you are under suspension then you aren't usually allowed to make up any grading activities that fall in that time.
Suspension, in my opinion, has to be the most idiotic form of punishment in school. It only actually punishes kids that care.
This strikes me as a great opportunity to use delivery via cheap drone. Although I suppose that would mean you'd need a delivery person of your own on the customers end which kills the advantage of an online seller. And it wouldn't have saved this guy anyways since he was busted picking up his product.
I hadn't heard about this previously. If the owners of those businesses can't use banks what are they doing with all that money? Or is it just that they can't use banks for the transactions but are still able to make deposits at the end of the day?
I would add that it also doesn't matter whether or not the cream of the crop includes females, although I see no legitimate reason it wouldn't. It isn't like you have to land a job at Google or some other huge tech company to be successful. I don't know a single programmer that was honing their craft at a young age unless you mean learning to think in a logical fashion. My Father has worked writing assembly code for mainframes for most of his career and all of the really succesful places he worked focused on hiring people based on practically everything other than their technical programming skills.
Muslim vs Muslim can still play into their favor if they can define it as one sect vs another. It may not be as effective as Muslim vs foreign christian invaders, but it could still be considered a win.
I'm not a fan of the Koch brothers but no one is all evil or all goodness and light. I disagree with the Koch's political spending, but we can still acknowledge the good some of their charitable giving does. As a parent of small children I've noticed that focusing solely on the negative behaviours does nothing to prevent it, while a more balanced approach seems to get better results.
It's been a few years but the US military used to require the flu vaccine every year. And it's not like you could just opt out and take an admin discharge.
Disney is for idiots and children. I don't think that being rich or poor has much to do with it. I've known plenty of poor people that spent far more than I would judge appropriate on trips to disney. Disney also employes a ton of poor people to work at their parks, and enough of them not being vaccinated probably helped spread the measles. I obviously am not a fan of disney, so maybe I'm a little biased, but trust me, they draw in customers from all social classes.
Sadly in my experience none of that really works until the child does actually burn themselves. They may get sneakier about whatever behaviour it is you're trying to curb but until they hurt themselves they'll usually keep on doing it. Kids can be oh so smart and incredibly stupid all at the same time, I'm convinced it's part of their charm.
It depends. The state I live in forces all home schooling to be done through a religous institution. There are a number of churches that will gladly take your money to sanction your homeschooling, but there is no option for someone who doesn't want to pay that tax to a church to home school. I'll grant you that a lot of home schoolers are doing it to avoid evolution and whatever other things they disagree with. But I can tell you that all of the public high schools where I live are complete shit except the "Magnet" schools which are extremely competitive, focused on specific disciplines, and will give you the boot for a single non excellent grade or disciplinary action. So far as private schools go the same is true in my observations they are all tied directly to some religous institution or another. In the end if any one of my children doesn't seem to be able to hack it at the Magnet schools I'll probably relocate to anywhere else that doesn't have a completely broken school system.
My kids are vacinated for most everything they can be. But even if you look at measles, which is the current panic disease, the mortality rates are a joke. Something like 1 in a thousand cases in the years before vaccination was mortal. With modern health care I would expect it to be even less. The risk that non-vacinated kids pose is laughable at best, and it's not like vaccination results in 100% immunity anyways. If you're immune compromised, that sucks, but let's face it you are incredibly likely to die from something like the flu anyways. The massive amounts of public panic over that risk going up a few percentage points is completely unwarranted in my opinion.
I'm always bemused by the bad quality of live performances and recordings, and that's mainly because I've heard plenty of really good ones as well. I went to a concert once where 3 acts were playing. For the first and last act the sound guys seemed to be right on point, but for the middle act it was borked all to hell. That act needed the vocals to be louder than the instruments but as it was you could barely hear the singer at all.
A few years ago my wife was pretty into America's Got Talent and I'd watch it periodically with her because some of the acts were actually amusing. But several times they'd have a singer that sounded awful or at best mediocre, but the crowd and the judges went wild for them and praised them to no end. All I could figure was that the sound guys scewed it up and the recording didn't do the performance justice.
Sadly not really an option in all states. Where I live all cars have to be currently plated and registered. Even if you've had it parked in your backyard under a tarp for the last decade it in theory has to have a plate on it. That plate is also not supposed to be covered by anything, even those translucent plastic plate covers are a violation. That said though you could always just slap one of those white cardboard "tag applied for" things over your plate, and probably avoid detection by the automated readers or arousing suspicion.
I don't really know that it's all that unjustified of a paranoia. The California Legislature a few years back expanded the list of convictions that prohibited gun ownership. They did not notify registered gun owners which were affected by this change and instead started serving warrants with SWAT teams.
They chalked it up as plausible because there are historical accounts of it being done succesfully. They were not able to replicate the results but that of course doesn't mean it isn't possible. Using a thermal lance would probably work in some cases and not in others depending on the construction of the safe. In the Mythbusters case it took longer with the lance than they expected and the heat from the lance destroyed the contents of the safe. Their safe was also very leaky such that just filling it with water was problematic, meaning a lot of the pressure from the detonation was probably able to escape without doing any damage. Provided you can fill the safe with water without destroying the contents and minimal leakage, I'd give the method a good chance of success.
So what you're saying is that the internet has always been an internet of things? From its earliest implementation a terminal would sense input (usually from a human), relay that information if appropriate to a remote computer over a network. The remote computer would receive the traffic and respond in whatever way it was programed.
To me this is just another stupid buzzword/phrase just like the cloud. People, usually marketers just keep coming up with new words for things that have been around for a while in an attempt to drum up more business.
Meh, there really aren't that many social obstacles that I can see. I haven't had a cell phone for over six years and very rarely have I missed it, primarily when I'm at the store and can't remeber if we need something or not. That very minor inconveince is certainly not worth the excessive cost of a cell phone, in my opinion.
I did own a cell phone for many years mainly because I had the money and it was the cool thing to have. Looking back at it now though I really wish I had just saved that money and used it for pretty much anything else. I've a landline at home so telemarketers can call to annoy me, and so that family can contact me via voice if they really must. Actually now that I think of it my work requires that I have a phone number, I wonder if that means I can deduct the minimal cost of my landline as a business expense.
Every time I pass an obvious vehicle like that I'm tempted to find a tarp or something to drape over it.
I think the risk is overblown, honestly. I looked up the FBI stats recently and they only managed to identify 50% or so of the suspects, that's not even apprehend, just identify. The money while not awesome is tax free so goes a bit further than a salary of the same amount. It also doesn't preclude having a regular job or earning money through other means.
I think the safer bet though would be to steal armored cars transporting large sums of money. Take out the guards using tear gas and bean bag shotguns. Load the whole truck into a faraday cage in a larger truck and take it somewhere safe to unload and sort out the dye packs.
When I read your comment I heard it internally in the voice of ZeFrank nd couldn't stop giggling.
Headshots are a bad idea for legal reasons as well as practical.
1. It's a much smaller target.
2. Armor piercing rounds, or rounds that are more likely to penetrate aren't that hard to come by.
3. In the event you deliberately shoot someone in the head the lawyers will want to know why you risked your life on a much harder shot. If you were so skilled that a headshot would be as likely to succede as a body shot, then why did you not aim for an arm or leg to disable instead of kill. Even if you avoid criminal charges you can be sure you'll spend all your money defending a wrongful death civil suit.
If you really think you are that good then you should be able to place a couple chest shots with a third in the head zippering up, and claim that the headshot was just muzzle rise.
It isn't always about making a ton of money in the short term. Many people do things that boggle the mind purely out of egotism. Although in this case it can lead to wealth as well. If you had polled gamers here on /. a day before this all started you might have seen a 1% result showing that they knew who Quinn was or had even heard of her before. And you might have gotten as high as 10% for Grayson seeing as how he is a writer for RPS, I doubt it'd be that high, but I'm being generous with my guess.
If you did a poll now I'd bet the results for Quinn would be over 50% at the very least, if not closer to 80%. Grayson would probably only poll around 40% as his name isn't brought up as frequently in all the vitrol. People in the business of selling things know that name recognition is a huge part of increasing sales. You can bet dollars to donuts that whatever either one of them touches from now on will get a lot more attention. Honestly it's a genius move on Quinn's part, even if only a small fraction of people who hear about the whole mess look favorably on her that represents a huge increase in people who know who she is and have a positive view of her.
It wouldn't stop the spread in a binary fashion but it would reduce the amount of spreading. Usually when you start getting the full blown symptoms for whatever disease you become much more contagious.
On top of that if they had good healthcare options they would likely end up diagnosed much faster. Which would lead to the outbreak being recognized faster. I wouldn't be surprised if an employer like Disney doing those two things could reduce the spread of disease and illness through their parks by a factor of ten or better. And this outbreak may just provide them with the commercial interest in finally doing that.
Not completely true. When a chip draws less power to perform the same functions you can the push the clock, because consuming less power means less waste heat. As you raise the clock you get more speed. There is of course a balance to be struck, but ragardless figuring out how to accomplish the same work with less power will allow you to push the performance before hitting the limit of your heat disipation capabilities.
I've been using a 550 Ti for the last three years and it's been great. It could be better I suppose but I'm not some elite gamer that needs 60 FPS no matter what, or photo realistic video quality.
That said I just worked a weekend and holiday so had a little extra cash coming this paycheck so I ordered my EVGA 960 lastnight. While the performance may not be spectacularly better than the previous generation it will be a big upgrade for me, and with it's lower power requirements it'll fit nicely in my computer without disrupting anything. Since it is newer it'll also be supported for longer and I can use some of the newer stuff like nVidia's free screen recording software. In a couple years I expect I'll want to upgrade the rest of my computer and I should be able to reuse this 960, and I'll be able to put the 550 back in and hand the old PC to the kids.