Leaving a weapon unsecured is not necesarily negligent enough to transfer guilt for a crime committed with the weapon. It would depend on the local laws regarding storage and handling of weapons. If such a violation is even legally actionable it'd likely need to be a felony to matter.
Also the poster you are replying to was specifically talking about the United States. The UK and Germany are entirely different nations with completely different legal systems and laws.
Apple fanboys are a funny breed. I'll bet you think of yourself as a real free-thinking maverick, right?...
Can I patent that or something? How about contributing something to the conversation?
My wife has had a tablet computer, an HP laptop/tablet, for around 5 years now I think. The iPad isn't significatnly different in design from it. Thechnological advances and making the iPad less capable have allowed for it to be smaller and lighter. But it's still the same rectangular flat device that is mostly a touch sensitive screen.
Free speech in most cases refers to the individuals right to say whatever the hell they want without censure unless it is slander, libel and I think sedition. Whether or not they are paid for it is of no consequence.
Whether or not he's a crackpot has very little to do with anything. He isn't claiming to be a certified anything. In fact his site has a disclaimer at the bottom of every page stating that he isn't. So it should be obvious to anyone taking his advice that's he just an ordinary person offering advice.
It's a free speech issue because the state is claiming a monopoly on speech that is deemed to be advice. Which is bogus. He isn't commiting fraud, libeling or slandering anyone, so why should his speech be restricted. Does the state of North Carolina actively prosecute Christian Scientist's for saying that medicine is useless and it's all in the sick persons head as practicing medicine without a licenese?
I know a guy that was enlisted in the Air Force. His AFSC/MOS was to maintain and monitor a lot of equipment that was used to watch for nuclear detonations. He told me that at the top end of the career ladder for that field was a group of guys that took turns in pairs sitting under a mountain somewhere playing cards or whatever all day and night. Their job was to wait for the monitoring system to spit out a possible detonation, review all of the data and then either chalk it up as a non-nuclear event or an actual nuclear detonation. In the case of a nuclear detonation, which wasn't on a schedule or something, they would call a number to have the congress critters and the president immediately informed regardless of the time of day. And of course as you would expect at some point in the previous couple decades at least one pair had made a bad call over what they should have easily recognized as a meteor, and woke up congress in the middle of the night.
It's hard to qualify anything from McD's a food. I wonder though if 6 of their cheapo burgers actually meets the 2k callories a day recommendation.
I did put all my spending into a spreadsheet a few years back and realized I was spending around $400 a month on frivolous eating out. That is I was eating out for lunch almost everyday and I wasn't eating on the cheap. I typically only eat from fast food places when I'm on a road trip and just need something fast. Otherwise I'd much rather sit down and actually be waited on.
Anyways the wife and I decided we needed to start saving money. So I cut back on eating out and packed a lunch 4/5 days a week. We killed the satellite TV. We scaled back our internet service since we didn't have three gamers eating up the serives all the time anymore. We canceled all the extras on the land line phone service and bought a cheapo answering machine. I think the only thing we didn't change was the cellphone plan which was already a cheapo no-text no-data plan for one phone that she carries and uses to make long distance calls. Two years later and now we have reduced our debts and hold more than 8 months of net earnings in the bank.
The motors don't have to be in the wheels, they can just be located by each wheel and provide power to it. You just replace the axles or whatever with a pair of motors. You'll still have some kind of linkage to connect each motor to its wheel so that the motors weight isn't unsprung. The advantage of 4 motors would be better stability control and performance.
Electric Locomotives have actually put motors in wheels for a long while. They of course operate on much smother surfaces than cars and don't to worry about unsprung weight. But one of the manufacturers a few years back started a project aimed at putting their motors in car wheels. Their demonstration vehicle was a Mini Cooper I believe.
It gets even better than just long distance charges run up by kids.
I had a deadbeat roommate once who decided that the voice mail that we had on the phone line wasn't good enough. So he signed up for some internet voice mail thing and authorized it's, $15 a month, payment through the phone bill. All he had to do was provide the phone number and the name the account was under.
I had the account setup to be paid automatically, and since there was often some variance to the bill due to long distance calls I didn't pay much attention to it. So on the third month when I noticed it I flipped out a bit. I ended up talking to the phone company to have it removed from my bill and reimbursed since I as the account holder never authorized it. They agreed to do so and it seemed to be resolved. For several months though that same charge would pop up again on my account until I finally got a tech who offered to disable all such charges from my account.
I still can't get over how simple it was for some random company to add a charge to my phone bill without actually verifying anything more than you could get from a phone book.
I have a friend that wrote his own software to allow him to flash his Subaru Imprezza WRX's ECU. The software is now called RomRaider, available at www.romraider.com. Originally he called it Enginuity but apparently somebody owned rights to that already. Anways he could monitor the performance of his car in real time using a laptop, and he could make tweaks and modifications to change the performance.
It was all open source and only possible because Subaru had made the code availabe. I don't know if it was or is a standing policy of Subaru's but I've viewed them in a much more positive light since then.
Comically enough he had threats of lawsuits from at least one company that produced commercial software for doing the same things. They were licensing the software and essentially got a couple hundred bucks anytime a shop used the software to performance tune a clients ECU.
I think I was in middle school when I got this game. It took a bit of effort once I recognized the time limit. It became not just a matter of defeating a level but being able to beat it quickly. That principle was particularly important early in the game other wise you would leave yourself very little time for experimentation in later levels.
The two things I remember most are the mirror image "fight" and the display inversion potion. Both of which to me were really neat twists. I don't know how inovative they really were but I hadn't seen them before.
Taxes are not "somebody else's money", they are our money, as a whole nation.
I could argue that because I don't live near a border of our nation that national defense spending is completely unjustified. Any invasion could just be resisted by the residents affected and it likely wouldn't get to my lawn. So why should "my money", taxes, be used to support the DoD?
The answer is that money paid in taxes is no longer accountable to the individual. It is only accountable to the populace at large. And if that populace, or their elected representatives, determine it is in the nations best interest to fund the DoD, Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, Wellfare, DoE, CDC, EPA, DoI and on and on and on, that is their perogative as a sovereign nation.
No man is an island. Each of us owes something of our selves to the rest of our society to some degree. Our society actually gives us a lot of freedom in deciding how or even if we will contribute.
Jesus said to render unto Caesar what was Caesar's when he was asked about paying taxes. He said nothing about how the taxes should be spent, one way or the other. He simply taught and encouraged people to not be uncaring assholes to each other. If you carry that philosophy to it's natural conclusion as a nation or society there is no reason to expect that the government representing them would not behave charitably.
If you believe in a being that could design and create every living thing around you, the step to s/he being powerful and smart enough to fake all the evidence for dinosaurs and such is trivial.
Beat me to is, also on point 2. In the LDS church having the Priesthood isn't the same as in other religions. It doesn't grant power or authority over other people. Hell even callings which are gender specific don't bring any kind of benefit to that person. How many people that aren't sociopaths want to serve as a Bishop, Elder's Quorum President, Highpriest Group Leader, Relief Society President, Stake President, or any of the other numerous leadership positions?
And in the case that you ever run into a person that appears to be abusing their calling all you have to do is take it up the chain, so to speak. The LDS leadership have no motivation to keep an asshole in a position of authority and it'll be rectified immediately. I've personally witnessed an instance where a leader stepped out of line and they were "released" from that calling within the week.
Speaking of music! I live within a couple hundred yards of a major roadway and honestly the traffic noise isn't bad at all. The morons cruising down my street playing music loud enough to shake the window panes is much more of an issue. I really wish we could get better enforcement of noise ordinances where I live.
And this whole discussion makes little sense in light of other existing laws. When a person starts or initiates a confrontation using or directly threatening force in the process they are commiting a Felony. In most states any deaths resulting from a Felony offense are the fault of the person(s) committing the felony. Which is how when two conspirators try and rob a gas station,and one is shot to death by the attendant, the surviving conspirator is charged with murder for the death.
In this case of course the problem is that we, the public, don't know who actually started the physical confrontation. And it might be that no one but Zimmerman and Martin will ever know. But hopefully there is evidence that will allow a jury to make a sound decision one way or the other.
A full year out of a pot hole patch is pretty damn good in my experience. But even if every patch lasted a full year it's an unmaintainable situation. Patching all of last years potholes, plus all of the new ones every year quickly gets out of hand.
And it's not like potholes are a critical issue. The vehicles suffering the most damage are usually modified with suspension setups meant for a track or using stupidly low profile tires with outsized rims. In my entire life the only time I've seen suspension or tire damage of the type you'd expect to see from a pothole it was actually because my idiot friend ran over a curb at an angle going more than 20mph.
I really don't see the equivilance between the Apollo program and fusion research.
The Apollo program did give us some great stuff but it's intended goal was to prove to the world that Capitalism had a bigger penis than Communism
While the primary goal of fusion research is more, safer, cleaner energy for the world. It seems a little more altruistic to me than putting foot prints on the moon.
Good bed linens are certainly more expensive than cheap linens, but they aren't extrordinarily expensive. I think between my linens, mattress/boxspring, bed frame and all of that I've got less than $5000 tied up. I didn't spend it all at once of course but over a few years. And if you think about it, you probably spend 1/3 of your life, give or take a bit, in bed. So it makes sense to spend the money for extra quality and comfort.
In the last ten years I think I've only had one or two sets of sheets I had to dispose of because they didn't hold up. Make sure whatever product you are buying isn't poorly reviewed for pilling and such.
It may not give access to much in the way of immediate cash funds. But like any random SSN they can be used in other frauds. Maybe on a one for one basis they aren't as valuable to a criminal as say my SSN would be, but they got away with more than 25 thousand of them. So even if they only get a few hundred bucks each worth of fraudulant activity out of each it'll add up. So now those 25 thousand people who were probably already having a rough time of it have the added excitement of probably being the victims of ID theft in the near future. And it's not like you can just go get a new SSN, so once it's out there it'll be a spectre for the rest of your life.
Because web developers love those flashy bits. Stuff like JavaScript just offers them too much to not make use of it. And it would kind of be like tossing the baby out with the bath water.
One of the problems with Window for more than a decade has been that explorer could be exploited to gain administrative access, even if the user didn't normally have that level of access. Explorer was a core part of how Windows worked and so they couldn't do a whole lot to fix it until they redesigned for Vista.
Personally I use NoScript and very rarely, twice in the last seven years or so, have gotten anything on my home system. I use Ubuntu in a virtualbox for anything that makes me too nervous. And reset to a known safe state on the virtual box when I'm done.
From the horror stories I've heard from female friends over the years I don't think it actually is working. But too many people are afraid of the easy alternative and individual bathrooms are just to expensive. Well and combining them wouldn't necessarily make people take better care of them anyways, just invite pervs to act up.
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Leaving a weapon unsecured is not necesarily negligent enough to transfer guilt for a crime committed with the weapon. It would depend on the local laws regarding storage and handling of weapons. If such a violation is even legally actionable it'd likely need to be a felony to matter.
Also the poster you are replying to was specifically talking about the United States. The UK and Germany are entirely different nations with completely different legal systems and laws.
Apple fanboys are a funny breed. I'll bet you think of yourself as a real free-thinking maverick, right? ...
Can I patent that or something?
How about contributing something to the conversation?
My wife has had a tablet computer, an HP laptop/tablet, for around 5 years now I think. The iPad isn't significatnly different in design from it. Thechnological advances and making the iPad less capable have allowed for it to be smaller and lighter. But it's still the same rectangular flat device that is mostly a touch sensitive screen.
Free speech in most cases refers to the individuals right to say whatever the hell they want without censure unless it is slander, libel and I think sedition. Whether or not they are paid for it is of no consequence.
Whether or not he's a crackpot has very little to do with anything. He isn't claiming to be a certified anything. In fact his site has a disclaimer at the bottom of every page stating that he isn't. So it should be obvious to anyone taking his advice that's he just an ordinary person offering advice.
It's a free speech issue because the state is claiming a monopoly on speech that is deemed to be advice. Which is bogus. He isn't commiting fraud, libeling or slandering anyone, so why should his speech be restricted. Does the state of North Carolina actively prosecute Christian Scientist's for saying that medicine is useless and it's all in the sick persons head as practicing medicine without a licenese?
I know a guy that was enlisted in the Air Force. His AFSC/MOS was to maintain and monitor a lot of equipment that was used to watch for nuclear detonations. He told me that at the top end of the career ladder for that field was a group of guys that took turns in pairs sitting under a mountain somewhere playing cards or whatever all day and night. Their job was to wait for the monitoring system to spit out a possible detonation, review all of the data and then either chalk it up as a non-nuclear event or an actual nuclear detonation. In the case of a nuclear detonation, which wasn't on a schedule or something, they would call a number to have the congress critters and the president immediately informed regardless of the time of day. And of course as you would expect at some point in the previous couple decades at least one pair had made a bad call over what they should have easily recognized as a meteor, and woke up congress in the middle of the night.
If think by "bastard" you mean "lizard"
It's hard to qualify anything from McD's a food. I wonder though if 6 of their cheapo burgers actually meets the 2k callories a day recommendation.
I did put all my spending into a spreadsheet a few years back and realized I was spending around $400 a month on frivolous eating out. That is I was eating out for lunch almost everyday and I wasn't eating on the cheap. I typically only eat from fast food places when I'm on a road trip and just need something fast. Otherwise I'd much rather sit down and actually be waited on.
Anyways the wife and I decided we needed to start saving money. So I cut back on eating out and packed a lunch 4/5 days a week. We killed the satellite TV. We scaled back our internet service since we didn't have three gamers eating up the serives all the time anymore. We canceled all the extras on the land line phone service and bought a cheapo answering machine. I think the only thing we didn't change was the cellphone plan which was already a cheapo no-text no-data plan for one phone that she carries and uses to make long distance calls. Two years later and now we have reduced our debts and hold more than 8 months of net earnings in the bank.
The motors don't have to be in the wheels, they can just be located by each wheel and provide power to it. You just replace the axles or whatever with a pair of motors. You'll still have some kind of linkage to connect each motor to its wheel so that the motors weight isn't unsprung. The advantage of 4 motors would be better stability control and performance.
Electric Locomotives have actually put motors in wheels for a long while. They of course operate on much smother surfaces than cars and don't to worry about unsprung weight. But one of the manufacturers a few years back started a project aimed at putting their motors in car wheels. Their demonstration vehicle was a Mini Cooper I believe.
It gets even better than just long distance charges run up by kids.
I had a deadbeat roommate once who decided that the voice mail that we had on the phone line wasn't good enough. So he signed up for some internet voice mail thing and authorized it's, $15 a month, payment through the phone bill. All he had to do was provide the phone number and the name the account was under.
I had the account setup to be paid automatically, and since there was often some variance to the bill due to long distance calls I didn't pay much attention to it. So on the third month when I noticed it I flipped out a bit. I ended up talking to the phone company to have it removed from my bill and reimbursed since I as the account holder never authorized it. They agreed to do so and it seemed to be resolved. For several months though that same charge would pop up again on my account until I finally got a tech who offered to disable all such charges from my account.
I still can't get over how simple it was for some random company to add a charge to my phone bill without actually verifying anything more than you could get from a phone book.
I have a friend that wrote his own software to allow him to flash his Subaru Imprezza WRX's ECU. The software is now called RomRaider, available at www.romraider.com. Originally he called it Enginuity but apparently somebody owned rights to that already. Anways he could monitor the performance of his car in real time using a laptop, and he could make tweaks and modifications to change the performance.
It was all open source and only possible because Subaru had made the code availabe. I don't know if it was or is a standing policy of Subaru's but I've viewed them in a much more positive light since then.
Comically enough he had threats of lawsuits from at least one company that produced commercial software for doing the same things. They were licensing the software and essentially got a couple hundred bucks anytime a shop used the software to performance tune a clients ECU.
I think I was in middle school when I got this game. It took a bit of effort once I recognized the time limit. It became not just a matter of defeating a level but being able to beat it quickly. That principle was particularly important early in the game other wise you would leave yourself very little time for experimentation in later levels.
The two things I remember most are the mirror image "fight" and the display inversion potion. Both of which to me were really neat twists. I don't know how inovative they really were but I hadn't seen them before.
Taxes are not "somebody else's money", they are our money, as a whole nation.
I could argue that because I don't live near a border of our nation that national defense spending is completely unjustified. Any invasion could just be resisted by the residents affected and it likely wouldn't get to my lawn. So why should "my money", taxes, be used to support the DoD?
The answer is that money paid in taxes is no longer accountable to the individual. It is only accountable to the populace at large. And if that populace, or their elected representatives, determine it is in the nations best interest to fund the DoD, Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, Wellfare, DoE, CDC, EPA, DoI and on and on and on, that is their perogative as a sovereign nation.
No man is an island. Each of us owes something of our selves to the rest of our society to some degree. Our society actually gives us a lot of freedom in deciding how or even if we will contribute.
Jesus said to render unto Caesar what was Caesar's when he was asked about paying taxes. He said nothing about how the taxes should be spent, one way or the other. He simply taught and encouraged people to not be uncaring assholes to each other. If you carry that philosophy to it's natural conclusion as a nation or society there is no reason to expect that the government representing them would not behave charitably.
Right on!
If you believe in a being that could design and create every living thing around you, the step to s/he being powerful and smart enough to fake all the evidence for dinosaurs and such is trivial.
Beat me to is, also on point 2. In the LDS church having the Priesthood isn't the same as in other religions. It doesn't grant power or authority over other people. Hell even callings which are gender specific don't bring any kind of benefit to that person. How many people that aren't sociopaths want to serve as a Bishop, Elder's Quorum President, Highpriest Group Leader, Relief Society President, Stake President, or any of the other numerous leadership positions?
And in the case that you ever run into a person that appears to be abusing their calling all you have to do is take it up the chain, so to speak. The LDS leadership have no motivation to keep an asshole in a position of authority and it'll be rectified immediately. I've personally witnessed an instance where a leader stepped out of line and they were "released" from that calling within the week.
Speaking of music! I live within a couple hundred yards of a major roadway and honestly the traffic noise isn't bad at all. The morons cruising down my street playing music loud enough to shake the window panes is much more of an issue. I really wish we could get better enforcement of noise ordinances where I live.
No.
And this whole discussion makes little sense in light of other existing laws. When a person starts or initiates a confrontation using or directly threatening force in the process they are commiting a Felony. In most states any deaths resulting from a Felony offense are the fault of the person(s) committing the felony. Which is how when two conspirators try and rob a gas station ,and one is shot to death by the attendant, the surviving conspirator is charged with murder for the death.
In this case of course the problem is that we, the public, don't know who actually started the physical confrontation. And it might be that no one but Zimmerman and Martin will ever know. But hopefully there is evidence that will allow a jury to make a sound decision one way or the other.
A full year out of a pot hole patch is pretty damn good in my experience. But even if every patch lasted a full year it's an unmaintainable situation. Patching all of last years potholes, plus all of the new ones every year quickly gets out of hand.
And it's not like potholes are a critical issue. The vehicles suffering the most damage are usually modified with suspension setups meant for a track or using stupidly low profile tires with outsized rims. In my entire life the only time I've seen suspension or tire damage of the type you'd expect to see from a pothole it was actually because my idiot friend ran over a curb at an angle going more than 20mph.
I really don't see the equivilance between the Apollo program and fusion research.
The Apollo program did give us some great stuff but it's intended goal was to prove to the world that Capitalism had a bigger penis than Communism
While the primary goal of fusion research is more, safer, cleaner energy for the world. It seems a little more altruistic to me than putting foot prints on the moon.
That sounds similiar to how Chuck Norris does it. He just sends in a blank copy of the form with a photo of himself, crouched and ready attack.
Haha, as it turns out I am neither.
Good bed linens are certainly more expensive than cheap linens, but they aren't extrordinarily expensive. I think between my linens, mattress/boxspring, bed frame and all of that I've got less than $5000 tied up. I didn't spend it all at once of course but over a few years. And if you think about it, you probably spend 1/3 of your life, give or take a bit, in bed. So it makes sense to spend the money for extra quality and comfort.
In the last ten years I think I've only had one or two sets of sheets I had to dispose of because they didn't hold up. Make sure whatever product you are buying isn't poorly reviewed for pilling and such.
It may not give access to much in the way of immediate cash funds. But like any random SSN they can be used in other frauds. Maybe on a one for one basis they aren't as valuable to a criminal as say my SSN would be, but they got away with more than 25 thousand of them. So even if they only get a few hundred bucks each worth of fraudulant activity out of each it'll add up. So now those 25 thousand people who were probably already having a rough time of it have the added excitement of probably being the victims of ID theft in the near future. And it's not like you can just go get a new SSN, so once it's out there it'll be a spectre for the rest of your life.
Gawdam, it's really too bad that wouldn't fit readably on a T-Shirt.
Because web developers love those flashy bits. Stuff like JavaScript just offers them too much to not make use of it. And it would kind of be like tossing the baby out with the bath water.
One of the problems with Window for more than a decade has been that explorer could be exploited to gain administrative access, even if the user didn't normally have that level of access. Explorer was a core part of how Windows worked and so they couldn't do a whole lot to fix it until they redesigned for Vista.
Personally I use NoScript and very rarely, twice in the last seven years or so, have gotten anything on my home system. I use Ubuntu in a virtualbox for anything that makes me too nervous. And reset to a known safe state on the virtual box when I'm done.
From the horror stories I've heard from female friends over the years I don't think it actually is working. But too many people are afraid of the easy alternative and individual bathrooms are just to expensive. Well and combining them wouldn't necessarily make people take better care of them anyways, just invite pervs to act up.
I stopped reading as:
"8:01 a.m. Realize you are lying on 100 percent cotton sheets of at least a 300 count, so don't panic; you're not slumming."
Which I couldn't disagree with more. 300 count is definitely slumming it, I'm getting itchy just thinking about it.