I have - I ride an '82 GL 500. Nice medium powered, comfortable machine. Top speed is only 100 mph, but there aren't a lot of place where you can go that fast anyway.
Or, did you mean pedaling a bicycle? Yeah, I suppose that I could. If I wanted to invest in building my own roads, I suppose I could. Or, are you unaware of complaints from around the nation regarding the safety of bicycling? Where I live, there are no safe places for bicycles, even if I moved into town.
Besides which - a runner and a cyclist use many of the same muscles, but they don't use all the same muscles in the same way. I ran from the cradle, and never slowed down until after about age 42 or so. Sure, I rode a bike as a kid, but it never stopped me running. I learned to drive a car, and kept running. Joined the Navy and sailed around a large part of the world, and kept running. It's a way of thinking, it's as natural as breathing. You don't replace that with something else.
You know what burger flippers are paid. And, forget construction. I worked construction for most of my life. After NAFTA, the illegals flooded in. A white guy can't buy a job on most construction sites today. A black guy isn't going to have much better luck. Everyone is brown, except the few guys in the office who come to work wearing shiny shoes, name brand polo shirts, and blue jeans with gay names emblazoned across the back pockets.
So - you're something of an exception to the rule. But, GP's statement isn't rubbish just because you've run your fastest marathon at age 49.
Tell me - how is your running going to go, when your knees begin to hurt, and a 100 yard dash leaves you in pain for three days?
I was a runner too. And, there are no more five minute miles ahead for me. If my life were threatened, I might do a seven minute mile. Maybe. More likely a nine minute mile. And I would pay for it for days - pay dearly.
Tomorrow's installers are children today, riding the trains up through Mexico, then riding an ICE bus into cities like Boston, where they are pampered and cared for, and indoctrinated into loving the government handouts.
Face it man, the midterm goal is to impoverish the US, and to bring in so many workers, that an American can't find a good paying job in ANY FIELD.
Your choice of friends my create a feedback loop that reinforces your views - join us at 11:00 for more news on this discovery!
Seriously, people, how and why do you choose friends, on the net, or in real life? How and why do CB and ham operators become friends, or enemies? How and why do people learn to love one news commentator, but love another?
I strive to avoid creating a bubble for myself - but I suspect that I merely end up living in a larger bubble than I would live in otherwise.
Anyone who wishes to avoid the confines of a small bubble simply needs to look further afield for his news. Have a news feed from each of the continents, for starters. Make sure to include at least two communist countries, at least two "western" industrialized nations, and not less than half a dozen third world and/or non-aligned nations. The more news feeds you peruse, the more likely you are to have a more balanced view of the world.
But, yeah, Facebook is going to reinforce that feedback loop. If you're an ignorant redneck, and you only have friends who are ignorant rednecks, you can bet your bottom dollar that Facebook is going to tell you and your friends exactly what you want to hear, because that generates more page views for them. No - I'm not picking on ignorant rednecks - the same applies to inner city ghetto kids, dopeheads, gun nuts, hoplophobes, homosexuals, etc ad nauseum.
It is up to YOU to broaden your horizons. It is YOUR responsibility to discover that not all opposing views are evil. YOU need to learn that not everyone who disagrees with you is a monster, or a brainwashed idiot, or whatever.
Monolithic kernel. You have a somewhat valid argument there. There are modules that I just don''t use, that are routinely compiled into the kernel. Simple solution: Compile it yourself, without the modules. Strip the kernel down to exactly what you need, and compile it native to get rid of all the 32-bit support. You're left with a monolithic kernel, of course, but the monolith is much smaller.
I just looked at it again, and I find environmentalists listed. Animal rights activists. Hacktivists. Note that this is merely a "reference aid" - there is other material that accompanied this little handout.. You may choose the red pill, or the blue pill. How deep does the rabbit hole go?
My first idea is to dig in. Put the people underground, as much as possible. Put critical infrastructure underground as well. No matter how you build, or what you build with, surface structures are going to be vulnerable. Put greenhouses on the surface, put solar panels on the surface, put hazardous research and fabrication on the surface. Put the PEOPLE underground. Dig them in where they can sleep soundly, knowing that they are safe from piddling little things like storms, or meteors, or whatever.
Err, uhhh - - - you're right, my citations have just about nothing to do with Canada. But - we are on a mostly American site, and the conversation has done as it usually does. It eventually turns US-centric. And, I wandered down that path. I thought that I was replying to another US-centric post.
Thanks for clarifying that you aren't an American. From my subjective point of view, our left is to far left, our center is more correct than either the left or right, and our right is to far right.
" in days gone by any person who ran for any reason was subject to being shot"
Here, you err. In days gone by, fleeing and evading the police was a mere misdemeanor. In the years immediately before 9/11/01 there was controversy about making fleeing and evading a felony. A cop was NEVER authorized to use deadly force to prevent a misdemeanor. Cops have ALWAYS been authorized to use deadly force to prevent the commission of a felony. The controversy over this issue was pretty lively - until 9/11/01. Soon after, we got a whole raft of new laws, most of which are unconstitutional. And, states that though fleeing should be a felony just passed the law, while other states rejected the idea.
And, in the end, it hardly matters, because those states where fleeing is NOT a felony, their cops just claim that they felt threatened when the suspect gunned his car engine or some such nonsense.
Yes - no - maybe. How DO you winnow out the bad cops in the hiring process? Have the social workers come up with a test for morality? Honesty? How do you weed out an authoritarian asshole, before he acts out?
I'm half sure that the cops winnow out a lot of the worst cretins. But, anyone who is sure that they weed out all of the bad actors is some kind of a fool. People with god complexes are often attracted to police work, because it is one place where they can ACT like the gods that they know they are. Adrenaline junkies are also attracted to the work. How do you identify them?
If you can develop the proper tests to identify all of the bad ones, I'm sure that you'll be rich and famous overnight.
No, they don't "pull records". They have to plead, beg, threaten, cajole and go to court to get the records. They have submitted requests for tons of records, and they've gotten some small percentage of what they've requested. But, even that small percentage is a treasure trove of data.
Long story short - the cops are still deciding what to release, when, and how. You don't get any data until the PD has approved it's release.
I live in the Corporate States of America. Here, the more responsibility you have, the less responsible you have to be. The guy hired last week to mop the floors will be fired immediately if a bottle of floor wax should come up missing. The CEO can artfully relocate millions of dollars, and he'll get a bonus for doing it.
Yes. So - let's have the video. In one case, the video proves me wrong. In the next case, the video proves me wrong again. In the next case, I see the evidence that "my side" is right. And, that's the way it should be.
A cop's word should carry no more weight than your word or mine in a court of law. The cop should have to PROVE HIS CASE.
That may or may not be true. It hardly matters though, does it? If the cops are wearing body cams, and three cops arrest some mook, then when he cries "Brutality", the evidence is available. If the evidence shows the mook to be lying, so be it. If the evidence shows that the cops bludgeoned him half to death, then let him roll around in the back of a paddy wagon for half the day before calling for medical assistance, then so it should be.
Put the cameras on the cops. Justice will win, no matter how many cops win or lose their cases.
"criminals or otherwise people on the police radar."
And, in this day and age, just what does it take to show up on "radar"? For instance - DHS has stated that "extremists" includes veterans, Christians, survivalists, sovereigners, on and on and on. Oh - note that it's not just "Christian fundamentalists" anymore, but "Christians" in general. Funny that one - all the gays are clamoring to be accepted into the churches - which makes gays extremists now too!
I'm on the "radar" multiple times. I don't even try to get through an airport. I'd have to kill someone.
I suppose that you are completely unaware of the neoconservatives. THOSE are the GOP's "far right". To leftists, anyone right of center is "far right".
"Police can't normally walk away from the scene, and they are compelled to attend in the first place."
Uhhhhh - no. The police are not obligated to come to your aid. Never have been, never will be. When you call the police, they only come if it is convenient, and when they feel like it.
As for walking away from the scene - I'm not aware of anything that binds any individual officer to the scene. He may walk away from a confrontation at any time.
There are some pretty good discussions going on right now about such things.
In short, a cop can decide to defuse a situation by just backing off, at any time he chooses to do so. And, in fact, some of the wiser heads in the various police forces say that they should do just that. Not always, but often.
How many stories have we read of, where some mentally deficient person was shot to death, simply because he wasn't cooperating? And - the cop feels "threatened". One of the most recent stories I remember involved a nut case who was on his own porch, and happened to have a screw driver in his hand. There was no indication that he intended to use that screwdriver as a weapon - the cop just "felt threatened" because of that dumbass 21 foot rule. Yet another dead nutcase - and no one answers for the killing.
Yes - and THAT would be a blatant copyright violation.
Back in the mists of time, it was understood that no one was guaranteed any profit from any publicized work. The idea was, that IF there WAS a profit, then the author(s) should get some of it.
Casual users playing around with the code is cool, in my opinion. Corporate users making a profit, however indirectly, is not so cool.
Do I REALLY want to run a dosbox in my browser? How long until someone comes up with an exploit? Yeah, maybe I have some advantages over Windows users, and maybe I don't. I certainly lose any advantages I might have, if I carelessly, and pointlessly allow unknown code to run. I already block javascript on all but "trusted" sites. I'm going to allow dos code to run? Nahhhh - I'll pass.
Yeah, I actually do like some of those old dos games. Why don't I just download them myself, and run them in a sandbox, or a VM? No need to get my browser involved, or to mindlessly click through some permissions dialogue.
Our previous "IT Guy" couldn't do a disk image. I tried to explain it to him, he acted like it was over his head, so I dropped it. We could have saved SO MUCH money, just by having disk images for welders and other computer operated equipment. Disk dies, grab another similar disk with similar architecture, image the thing, plug it in, and the welder is ready to work. Two hours down time, if I play grab-ass along the way. Instead, a disk dies, we call the vendor who sold the machine, the vendor promises to have a guy out to us within the week, the repair guy shows up with the wrong damned disk image, so it's another day before he comes back with the right one. Meantime, every hour in a 24/7 plant, that welder is costing a few hundred dollars because it's not running.
The new IT guys actually get stuff done. Not my way, but they get things done.
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I have - I ride an '82 GL 500. Nice medium powered, comfortable machine. Top speed is only 100 mph, but there aren't a lot of place where you can go that fast anyway.
Or, did you mean pedaling a bicycle? Yeah, I suppose that I could. If I wanted to invest in building my own roads, I suppose I could. Or, are you unaware of complaints from around the nation regarding the safety of bicycling? Where I live, there are no safe places for bicycles, even if I moved into town.
Besides which - a runner and a cyclist use many of the same muscles, but they don't use all the same muscles in the same way. I ran from the cradle, and never slowed down until after about age 42 or so. Sure, I rode a bike as a kid, but it never stopped me running. I learned to drive a car, and kept running. Joined the Navy and sailed around a large part of the world, and kept running. It's a way of thinking, it's as natural as breathing. You don't replace that with something else.
You know what burger flippers are paid. And, forget construction. I worked construction for most of my life. After NAFTA, the illegals flooded in. A white guy can't buy a job on most construction sites today. A black guy isn't going to have much better luck. Everyone is brown, except the few guys in the office who come to work wearing shiny shoes, name brand polo shirts, and blue jeans with gay names emblazoned across the back pockets.
So - you're something of an exception to the rule. But, GP's statement isn't rubbish just because you've run your fastest marathon at age 49.
Tell me - how is your running going to go, when your knees begin to hurt, and a 100 yard dash leaves you in pain for three days?
I was a runner too. And, there are no more five minute miles ahead for me. If my life were threatened, I might do a seven minute mile. Maybe. More likely a nine minute mile. And I would pay for it for days - pay dearly.
Tomorrow's installers are children today, riding the trains up through Mexico, then riding an ICE bus into cities like Boston, where they are pampered and cared for, and indoctrinated into loving the government handouts.
Face it man, the midterm goal is to impoverish the US, and to bring in so many workers, that an American can't find a good paying job in ANY FIELD.
Your choice of friends my create a feedback loop that reinforces your views - join us at 11:00 for more news on this discovery!
Seriously, people, how and why do you choose friends, on the net, or in real life? How and why do CB and ham operators become friends, or enemies? How and why do people learn to love one news commentator, but love another?
I strive to avoid creating a bubble for myself - but I suspect that I merely end up living in a larger bubble than I would live in otherwise.
Anyone who wishes to avoid the confines of a small bubble simply needs to look further afield for his news. Have a news feed from each of the continents, for starters. Make sure to include at least two communist countries, at least two "western" industrialized nations, and not less than half a dozen third world and/or non-aligned nations. The more news feeds you peruse, the more likely you are to have a more balanced view of the world.
But, yeah, Facebook is going to reinforce that feedback loop. If you're an ignorant redneck, and you only have friends who are ignorant rednecks, you can bet your bottom dollar that Facebook is going to tell you and your friends exactly what you want to hear, because that generates more page views for them. No - I'm not picking on ignorant rednecks - the same applies to inner city ghetto kids, dopeheads, gun nuts, hoplophobes, homosexuals, etc ad nauseum.
It is up to YOU to broaden your horizons. It is YOUR responsibility to discover that not all opposing views are evil. YOU need to learn that not everyone who disagrees with you is a monster, or a brainwashed idiot, or whatever.
Monolithic kernel. You have a somewhat valid argument there. There are modules that I just don''t use, that are routinely compiled into the kernel. Simple solution: Compile it yourself, without the modules. Strip the kernel down to exactly what you need, and compile it native to get rid of all the 32-bit support. You're left with a monolithic kernel, of course, but the monolith is much smaller.
Well, I think that you'll admit that when the mook dies of a severed spinal cord, SOME credence can be given his claims.
Fair enough - browse the document here:
http://www.webcitation.org/5gY...
I just looked at it again, and I find environmentalists listed. Animal rights activists. Hacktivists. Note that this is merely a "reference aid" - there is other material that accompanied this little handout.. You may choose the red pill, or the blue pill. How deep does the rabbit hole go?
My first idea is to dig in. Put the people underground, as much as possible. Put critical infrastructure underground as well. No matter how you build, or what you build with, surface structures are going to be vulnerable. Put greenhouses on the surface, put solar panels on the surface, put hazardous research and fabrication on the surface. Put the PEOPLE underground. Dig them in where they can sleep soundly, knowing that they are safe from piddling little things like storms, or meteors, or whatever.
Err, uhhh - - - you're right, my citations have just about nothing to do with Canada. But - we are on a mostly American site, and the conversation has done as it usually does. It eventually turns US-centric. And, I wandered down that path. I thought that I was replying to another US-centric post.
Thanks for clarifying that you aren't an American. From my subjective point of view, our left is to far left, our center is more correct than either the left or right, and our right is to far right.
" in days gone by any person who ran for any reason was subject to being shot"
Here, you err. In days gone by, fleeing and evading the police was a mere misdemeanor. In the years immediately before 9/11/01 there was controversy about making fleeing and evading a felony. A cop was NEVER authorized to use deadly force to prevent a misdemeanor. Cops have ALWAYS been authorized to use deadly force to prevent the commission of a felony. The controversy over this issue was pretty lively - until 9/11/01. Soon after, we got a whole raft of new laws, most of which are unconstitutional. And, states that though fleeing should be a felony just passed the law, while other states rejected the idea.
And, in the end, it hardly matters, because those states where fleeing is NOT a felony, their cops just claim that they felt threatened when the suspect gunned his car engine or some such nonsense.
Yes - no - maybe. How DO you winnow out the bad cops in the hiring process? Have the social workers come up with a test for morality? Honesty? How do you weed out an authoritarian asshole, before he acts out?
I'm half sure that the cops winnow out a lot of the worst cretins. But, anyone who is sure that they weed out all of the bad actors is some kind of a fool. People with god complexes are often attracted to police work, because it is one place where they can ACT like the gods that they know they are. Adrenaline junkies are also attracted to the work. How do you identify them?
If you can develop the proper tests to identify all of the bad ones, I'm sure that you'll be rich and famous overnight.
No, they don't "pull records". They have to plead, beg, threaten, cajole and go to court to get the records. They have submitted requests for tons of records, and they've gotten some small percentage of what they've requested. But, even that small percentage is a treasure trove of data.
Long story short - the cops are still deciding what to release, when, and how. You don't get any data until the PD has approved it's release.
I live in the Corporate States of America. Here, the more responsibility you have, the less responsible you have to be. The guy hired last week to mop the floors will be fired immediately if a bottle of floor wax should come up missing. The CEO can artfully relocate millions of dollars, and he'll get a bonus for doing it.
Crazy world we live in.
Yes. So - let's have the video. In one case, the video proves me wrong. In the next case, the video proves me wrong again. In the next case, I see the evidence that "my side" is right. And, that's the way it should be.
A cop's word should carry no more weight than your word or mine in a court of law. The cop should have to PROVE HIS CASE.
That may or may not be true. It hardly matters though, does it? If the cops are wearing body cams, and three cops arrest some mook, then when he cries "Brutality", the evidence is available. If the evidence shows the mook to be lying, so be it. If the evidence shows that the cops bludgeoned him half to death, then let him roll around in the back of a paddy wagon for half the day before calling for medical assistance, then so it should be.
Put the cameras on the cops. Justice will win, no matter how many cops win or lose their cases.
"criminals or otherwise people on the police radar."
And, in this day and age, just what does it take to show up on "radar"? For instance - DHS has stated that "extremists" includes veterans, Christians, survivalists, sovereigners, on and on and on. Oh - note that it's not just "Christian fundamentalists" anymore, but "Christians" in general. Funny that one - all the gays are clamoring to be accepted into the churches - which makes gays extremists now too!
I'm on the "radar" multiple times. I don't even try to get through an airport. I'd have to kill someone.
I suppose that you are completely unaware of the neoconservatives. THOSE are the GOP's "far right". To leftists, anyone right of center is "far right".
ROFLMAO
Just pass on that Supersized Big Mac meal about seven days a week, and you can be a lean and mean 200 pound man like me!
Alright, so I'm almost sixty, and I have about 15 pounds of pot belly, but at least no one ever called me tubbo!!
You're obviously nucking phutts, but if I understand you correctly, then I agree with you.
"Police can't normally walk away from the scene, and they are compelled to attend in the first place."
Uhhhhh - no. The police are not obligated to come to your aid. Never have been, never will be. When you call the police, they only come if it is convenient, and when they feel like it.
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/06...
As for walking away from the scene - I'm not aware of anything that binds any individual officer to the scene. He may walk away from a confrontation at any time.
There are some pretty good discussions going on right now about such things.
http://www.policemag.com/chann...
In short, a cop can decide to defuse a situation by just backing off, at any time he chooses to do so. And, in fact, some of the wiser heads in the various police forces say that they should do just that. Not always, but often.
How many stories have we read of, where some mentally deficient person was shot to death, simply because he wasn't cooperating? And - the cop feels "threatened". One of the most recent stories I remember involved a nut case who was on his own porch, and happened to have a screw driver in his hand. There was no indication that he intended to use that screwdriver as a weapon - the cop just "felt threatened" because of that dumbass 21 foot rule. Yet another dead nutcase - and no one answers for the killing.
Yes - and THAT would be a blatant copyright violation.
Back in the mists of time, it was understood that no one was guaranteed any profit from any publicized work. The idea was, that IF there WAS a profit, then the author(s) should get some of it.
Casual users playing around with the code is cool, in my opinion. Corporate users making a profit, however indirectly, is not so cool.
Do I REALLY want to run a dosbox in my browser? How long until someone comes up with an exploit? Yeah, maybe I have some advantages over Windows users, and maybe I don't. I certainly lose any advantages I might have, if I carelessly, and pointlessly allow unknown code to run. I already block javascript on all but "trusted" sites. I'm going to allow dos code to run? Nahhhh - I'll pass.
Yeah, I actually do like some of those old dos games. Why don't I just download them myself, and run them in a sandbox, or a VM? No need to get my browser involved, or to mindlessly click through some permissions dialogue.
Our previous "IT Guy" couldn't do a disk image. I tried to explain it to him, he acted like it was over his head, so I dropped it. We could have saved SO MUCH money, just by having disk images for welders and other computer operated equipment. Disk dies, grab another similar disk with similar architecture, image the thing, plug it in, and the welder is ready to work. Two hours down time, if I play grab-ass along the way. Instead, a disk dies, we call the vendor who sold the machine, the vendor promises to have a guy out to us within the week, the repair guy shows up with the wrong damned disk image, so it's another day before he comes back with the right one. Meantime, every hour in a 24/7 plant, that welder is costing a few hundred dollars because it's not running.
The new IT guys actually get stuff done. Not my way, but they get things done.