rmdingler wasn't objecting to the high salaries paid to professional athletes. S/He was just saying they thought it is funny that those athletes are essentially unionized.
For the vast majority of Americans that will never matter. Sure I would like to tour Europe at some point in my life and maybe see some of the worlds wonders. But traveling is crazy expensive and most people couldn't afford it even if it was their dream to do so. And even if an American does decide it is worth the money to do some tourism it's likely to be short duration and so dealing with the hassle of cash isn't an issue.
So did I, and I even know exactly where my original disk is. GoG is providing real value for my purchase and I resent the amount of mountain moving they have to do in order to sell us these repackaged games.
I've never seen someone with a clearance that wasn't allowed to have a social network account because of the job. I have however known a lot of people that don't have such accounts because it is just one more thing to worry about when a clearance review rolls around. Technically speaking though I think that even accounts like the ones we are using here are supposed to be disclosed as "Alliases" in your clearance paperwork.
Yeah, I always figured they were public record but never realized how easy it was to find for free online until I bought a house. I periodically google my own name and one of the hits was a government site for figuring out if your home was in a flood zone. You could feed the site any address and it would list the property owner. Now that isn't to say that you couldn't use a dummy corporation or something to hold ownership of the house for you but I doubt many people go that far.
The original plans for the Model S actually included a small built in generator for extending the range. The idea was scraped though at least in part because they wanted to stick with keeping it 100% electric with no ICE at all. If I ever own a Model S I will definitely build my own small Generator trailer for it. Heck it might not even need to be a trailer, you might be able to get away with something that just hung on a trailer hitch. If plug in electrics ever catch on without huge improvements in batteries I expect some company will start building these kinds of things and selling them to companies that do rentals or something.
A purpose built generator will likely be more efficient fuel wise than a normal ICE engine for propelling the car. This is because the generators ICE could be built to run at it's peak efficiency range and its power output would be just enough to charge the batteries. A normal ICE for a car spends most of its time operating significantly outside its peak efficiency range.
Bullshit, the cost of being prepared would be minimal compared to this cluster fuck. They don't even need plows or specialized trucks. They needed salt spreaders that bolt onto the back of a pickup truck in a matter of minutes and a few hundred pounds of salt per spreader. When it looks like you might have ice in the next few hours you send out the trucks to salt the major intersections and places like bridges and overpasses where ice will form first. Then once the salting is well underway you tell people to go home and stay until it is safe. This is a highly likely event compared to plenty of other things like terrorism. How much you want to bet that Atlanta spends millions of dollars a year for anti terrorism.
I the same vein anyplace with average temperatures in the 80's for any more than a week or two at a time isn't some place that I really want to live. But we all do what we need to get by. The weather is one of the last considerations when I pick a place to live. Cost of living and employment being the top concerns for me, with quality of schools after that. So far it always seems to be one of those situations where you can pick two of the three while all abandoning hope for the third.
Unless of course the new colony is in an environment filled with new wildlife that also uses DNA. If that happened to be the case then we could possibly see evolution in progress.
I'm curious though as to how many people there actually are counted as subscribers. Internet cafe's are much more popular in those parts of the world already because of the cost of having your own equipment and connection.
One of the things I kind of miss from going to the library is having a curated collection of books to peruse. When I try and find a good book to read on Amazon there is such an enormous collection of stuff that finding a new book is a serious challenge. When I was a kid I would just go to the relatively small section of the library and look through that. I could take a book off the shelf and read a few pages to see if it appealed at all. With online book stores I'm mostly left to buying books by authors I already know, exploring new authors is an fiscal gamble. So thus far I've bought very few ebooks, instead I've stuck to the public domain works.
Since the turn of the century I have lived in the Midwest, California and the Deep South. So far every place I have been people have been far friendlier than you seem to assume. People talk all the time when waiting in checkout lines and other random places. When someone walks up and voices a salutation, as a normal sane person you would expect they are speaking to you, if no one else is right there to speak to. It doesn't really matter what the hell you are doing, if someone approaches you and gives some salutation or asks a question that seems pertinent to what you are doing most people will think they are being engaged in conversation. Which like I said can be annoying when it turns out they are just talking on a phone. But it goes up a level when the person on the phone cops an attitude about it, like the rest of us are responsible for keeping track of their status and magically knowing they are on the phone.
Two people having a conversation near me is not the same as a typical cell phone caller. Typically the cell phone user is more obnoxious, being more oblivious or their suroundings and speaking louder than normal.
What annoys me the most though is when people are using small hands free kits and appear to be attempting to start a conversation with you. Until you respond and they then get visibly annoyed at you for bothering them while they are on the phone. This gets even more frustrating when you are in a situation where you would expect social interaction like a checkout counter.
That said I think the animosity for Glass comes from the idea that it can be used to record at anytime on a whim. People get visibly upset if you just walk around holding up a video camera to random people. Heck I've been threatened with trespassing for taking a photogragh of a friend at a large retailer.
My principle reason for wanting a painless and relatively low stress execution method is that we have an imperfect justice system. Which means we periodically commit murder in the name of executing criminals. Other than some sense of vindication we as a society gain very little from a condemned persons suffering. So in the event of an innocent person being put to death I would at the least hope that there last few minutes of life are not spent in agonizing pain.
So far as deterance goes I don't think that it really works very well because that only works when people make logical decisions about what they are doing. When murder is involved there is rarely much sound reasoning happening. Additionally I think it makes more sense for such a criminal to meet a quiet ignominous end.
Purpose of the Criminal Justice System (in theory):
Also to hopefully reform criminals so that they can rejoin society as productive individuals.
Also remember that biblically speaking an eye for an eye is given as a limiting example. That is to say that the punishment may not be any more severe at it's worst than the crime that was commited, and a lesser punishment should be used in most cases.
If I am not mistaken that is generally what has been done for a long time. Most of those drugs though are imported from other countries, typically in the EU. The EU just recently passed a law forbidding export of those drugs if they will be used for the purpose of killing people. Which is the whole reason that they tried this new drug mix in Ohio.
What amazes me is why they don't just use a massive heroin overdose or something like that. I'm pretty sure we can find plenty of that stuff locally whether or not other countries decide not to import it.
Well destroying evidence is going to get the individial in trouble regardless of the means, although the means could me a bit of extra trouble. But sometimes destroying that data could be more important to the individual than avoiding prosecution. A good example could be additional evidence that would implicate accomplices currently unknown to the authorities
It doesn't even go so far as "calling anyone they want" Under the 3 steps rule all of your crap could be scrutinized with an eye towards charging you with something if you went to grade school with a guy who had a college course with someone that was a grade school classmate of a person of interest in a terrorism related case. And now according to the president they are going to cut that back to only two jumps instead of three, how come I don't really feel any relief in that.
One of the things that has really amazed me over the last decade is how often abuse of the patriot act shows up in regular network TV shows. And not as in they bust someone abusing the law but where the main characters deliberately misuse the law in order to further their investigation. But somehow it always ends up being justified because because they always get the real badguy. What a crock.
I don't know about destruction being slow. I guess the more safely you want to accomplish the destruction the longer it would take. But lighting thermite on it should do the job pretty damn fast, not as fast as explosives granted. Most hard drives I've seen have casings made of aluminum and plastic, which thermite would melt through very quickly.
I remember a couple decades ago a city near mine had some gas explosions in the sewer tunnels that caused manhole covers to pop 15 to 20 feet into the air. The local news ran footage of neighborhood kids eagerly crowding onto manhole covers that hadn't pop'd yet waiting for a free ride.
Charter Schools are typically funded via public money. So while they are not public in that they can pick and choose who they let in, they are public in the sense that they are publicly funded.
To me this is a clear violation of the seperation of church and state. If these were private schools it would be completely different, but charter schools are not private schools.
They own most radio stations in the USA. You can actually drive all over the country and find that similar music is played on very similar frequencies most of the time. This has been true for at least a decade or two. I remember noticing it as a kid and thinking it was funny that the same company owned the oldies, country, indie and new rock stations. All 4 of them where owned by the same company and ran mostly the same commercials. And they all played the top 40 songs from their genres sporadically between commercials.
When I was an older teenager a new rock station started up that was awesome. They played a couple commercials per hour and used automation to allow a couple DJ's to keep the music playing 24 hours. They were serious about rock music and you were as likely to hear something from 20 years ago as a new hit. The last time I was back in town though it sounded like they had sold out and been bought up by clearchannel as well.
The point, I think, is that the engineers warned the administrators of a very specific danger based on hard numbers. And despite that they launched anyways. Which resulted in the specified part failing exactly as warned resulting in loss of life.
Those O-rings, like every other part of the shuttle, were designed and produced to very exact specifications. For a rubber gaskett ambient temperature is one of those critical factors. I learned all that as a teenager when I got to hear a presentation from one of the guys that lead they investigation into the whole disaster.
I've pondered the possibility of a custom controller or something that would look identical to the OEM part, but would destroy the drive if it detected a change in the hardware it was connected to or didn't recieve an authentication code of some sort. The idea being to prevent the making of a forensics copy from the get go.
It'd probably be easier though to just install a thermite charge on top of the hard drive connected to sensors to detect movement of the computer or violation of the cases integrity.
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rmdingler wasn't objecting to the high salaries paid to professional athletes. S/He was just saying they thought it is funny that those athletes are essentially unionized.
For the vast majority of Americans that will never matter. Sure I would like to tour Europe at some point in my life and maybe see some of the worlds wonders. But traveling is crazy expensive and most people couldn't afford it even if it was their dream to do so. And even if an American does decide it is worth the money to do some tourism it's likely to be short duration and so dealing with the hassle of cash isn't an issue.
So did I, and I even know exactly where my original disk is. GoG is providing real value for my purchase and I resent the amount of mountain moving they have to do in order to sell us these repackaged games.
I've never seen someone with a clearance that wasn't allowed to have a social network account because of the job. I have however known a lot of people that don't have such accounts because it is just one more thing to worry about when a clearance review rolls around. Technically speaking though I think that even accounts like the ones we are using here are supposed to be disclosed as "Alliases" in your clearance paperwork.
Yeah, I always figured they were public record but never realized how easy it was to find for free online until I bought a house. I periodically google my own name and one of the hits was a government site for figuring out if your home was in a flood zone. You could feed the site any address and it would list the property owner. Now that isn't to say that you couldn't use a dummy corporation or something to hold ownership of the house for you but I doubt many people go that far.
The original plans for the Model S actually included a small built in generator for extending the range. The idea was scraped though at least in part because they wanted to stick with keeping it 100% electric with no ICE at all. If I ever own a Model S I will definitely build my own small Generator trailer for it. Heck it might not even need to be a trailer, you might be able to get away with something that just hung on a trailer hitch. If plug in electrics ever catch on without huge improvements in batteries I expect some company will start building these kinds of things and selling them to companies that do rentals or something.
A purpose built generator will likely be more efficient fuel wise than a normal ICE engine for propelling the car. This is because the generators ICE could be built to run at it's peak efficiency range and its power output would be just enough to charge the batteries. A normal ICE for a car spends most of its time operating significantly outside its peak efficiency range.
Bullshit, the cost of being prepared would be minimal compared to this cluster fuck. They don't even need plows or specialized trucks. They needed salt spreaders that bolt onto the back of a pickup truck in a matter of minutes and a few hundred pounds of salt per spreader. When it looks like you might have ice in the next few hours you send out the trucks to salt the major intersections and places like bridges and overpasses where ice will form first. Then once the salting is well underway you tell people to go home and stay until it is safe. This is a highly likely event compared to plenty of other things like terrorism. How much you want to bet that Atlanta spends millions of dollars a year for anti terrorism.
I the same vein anyplace with average temperatures in the 80's for any more than a week or two at a time isn't some place that I really want to live. But we all do what we need to get by. The weather is one of the last considerations when I pick a place to live. Cost of living and employment being the top concerns for me, with quality of schools after that. So far it always seems to be one of those situations where you can pick two of the three while all abandoning hope for the third.
And get visa's to import a bunch of Mongolians to help remove even the temptation of leaving, as well as giving the populace something to bond over.
Unless of course the new colony is in an environment filled with new wildlife that also uses DNA. If that happened to be the case then we could possibly see evolution in progress.
I'm curious though as to how many people there actually are counted as subscribers. Internet cafe's are much more popular in those parts of the world already because of the cost of having your own equipment and connection.
One of the things I kind of miss from going to the library is having a curated collection of books to peruse. When I try and find a good book to read on Amazon there is such an enormous collection of stuff that finding a new book is a serious challenge. When I was a kid I would just go to the relatively small section of the library and look through that. I could take a book off the shelf and read a few pages to see if it appealed at all. With online book stores I'm mostly left to buying books by authors I already know, exploring new authors is an fiscal gamble. So thus far I've bought very few ebooks, instead I've stuck to the public domain works.
Since the turn of the century I have lived in the Midwest, California and the Deep South. So far every place I have been people have been far friendlier than you seem to assume. People talk all the time when waiting in checkout lines and other random places. When someone walks up and voices a salutation, as a normal sane person you would expect they are speaking to you, if no one else is right there to speak to. It doesn't really matter what the hell you are doing, if someone approaches you and gives some salutation or asks a question that seems pertinent to what you are doing most people will think they are being engaged in conversation. Which like I said can be annoying when it turns out they are just talking on a phone. But it goes up a level when the person on the phone cops an attitude about it, like the rest of us are responsible for keeping track of their status and magically knowing they are on the phone.
Two people having a conversation near me is not the same as a typical cell phone caller. Typically the cell phone user is more obnoxious, being more oblivious or their suroundings and speaking louder than normal.
What annoys me the most though is when people are using small hands free kits and appear to be attempting to start a conversation with you. Until you respond and they then get visibly annoyed at you for bothering them while they are on the phone. This gets even more frustrating when you are in a situation where you would expect social interaction like a checkout counter.
That said I think the animosity for Glass comes from the idea that it can be used to record at anytime on a whim. People get visibly upset if you just walk around holding up a video camera to random people. Heck I've been threatened with trespassing for taking a photogragh of a friend at a large retailer.
My principle reason for wanting a painless and relatively low stress execution method is that we have an imperfect justice system. Which means we periodically commit murder in the name of executing criminals. Other than some sense of vindication we as a society gain very little from a condemned persons suffering. So in the event of an innocent person being put to death I would at the least hope that there last few minutes of life are not spent in agonizing pain.
So far as deterance goes I don't think that it really works very well because that only works when people make logical decisions about what they are doing. When murder is involved there is rarely much sound reasoning happening. Additionally I think it makes more sense for such a criminal to meet a quiet ignominous end.
Purpose of the Criminal Justice System (in theory):
Also to hopefully reform criminals so that they can rejoin society as productive individuals.
Also remember that biblically speaking an eye for an eye is given as a limiting example. That is to say that the punishment may not be any more severe at it's worst than the crime that was commited, and a lesser punishment should be used in most cases.
If I am not mistaken that is generally what has been done for a long time. Most of those drugs though are imported from other countries, typically in the EU. The EU just recently passed a law forbidding export of those drugs if they will be used for the purpose of killing people. Which is the whole reason that they tried this new drug mix in Ohio.
What amazes me is why they don't just use a massive heroin overdose or something like that. I'm pretty sure we can find plenty of that stuff locally whether or not other countries decide not to import it.
Well destroying evidence is going to get the individial in trouble regardless of the means, although the means could me a bit of extra trouble. But sometimes destroying that data could be more important to the individual than avoiding prosecution. A good example could be additional evidence that would implicate accomplices currently unknown to the authorities
It doesn't even go so far as "calling anyone they want" Under the 3 steps rule all of your crap could be scrutinized with an eye towards charging you with something if you went to grade school with a guy who had a college course with someone that was a grade school classmate of a person of interest in a terrorism related case. And now according to the president they are going to cut that back to only two jumps instead of three, how come I don't really feel any relief in that.
One of the things that has really amazed me over the last decade is how often abuse of the patriot act shows up in regular network TV shows. And not as in they bust someone abusing the law but where the main characters deliberately misuse the law in order to further their investigation. But somehow it always ends up being justified because because they always get the real badguy. What a crock.
I don't know about destruction being slow. I guess the more safely you want to accomplish the destruction the longer it would take. But lighting thermite on it should do the job pretty damn fast, not as fast as explosives granted. Most hard drives I've seen have casings made of aluminum and plastic, which thermite would melt through very quickly.
I remember a couple decades ago a city near mine had some gas explosions in the sewer tunnels that caused manhole covers to pop 15 to 20 feet into the air. The local news ran footage of neighborhood kids eagerly crowding onto manhole covers that hadn't pop'd yet waiting for a free ride.
Charter Schools are typically funded via public money. So while they are not public in that they can pick and choose who they let in, they are public in the sense that they are publicly funded.
To me this is a clear violation of the seperation of church and state. If these were private schools it would be completely different, but charter schools are not private schools.
They own most radio stations in the USA. You can actually drive all over the country and find that similar music is played on very similar frequencies most of the time. This has been true for at least a decade or two. I remember noticing it as a kid and thinking it was funny that the same company owned the oldies, country, indie and new rock stations. All 4 of them where owned by the same company and ran mostly the same commercials. And they all played the top 40 songs from their genres sporadically between commercials.
When I was an older teenager a new rock station started up that was awesome. They played a couple commercials per hour and used automation to allow a couple DJ's to keep the music playing 24 hours. They were serious about rock music and you were as likely to hear something from 20 years ago as a new hit. The last time I was back in town though it sounded like they had sold out and been bought up by clearchannel as well.
The point, I think, is that the engineers warned the administrators of a very specific danger based on hard numbers. And despite that they launched anyways. Which resulted in the specified part failing exactly as warned resulting in loss of life.
Those O-rings, like every other part of the shuttle, were designed and produced to very exact specifications. For a rubber gaskett ambient temperature is one of those critical factors. I learned all that as a teenager when I got to hear a presentation from one of the guys that lead they investigation into the whole disaster.
I've pondered the possibility of a custom controller or something that would look identical to the OEM part, but would destroy the drive if it detected a change in the hardware it was connected to or didn't recieve an authentication code of some sort. The idea being to prevent the making of a forensics copy from the get go.
It'd probably be easier though to just install a thermite charge on top of the hard drive connected to sensors to detect movement of the computer or violation of the cases integrity.