I was actually thinking of swinging by the Apple store on my way home from the gun range and WalMart, but the pick-up still has a bunch of dear guts in the bed, so I'll need to drive the Expedition and skip WalMart. Nothing like Core i7 goodness for calculating ballistics.
I know that some of you will suggest that what I'm doing is wrong, but I don't think so. I don't see the difference between this and setting my DVR to record the movies off HBO or something and keeping the movie around indefinitely on the DVR. I've still recorded a copy I can watch multiple times. Now it I torrent that copy, that's a different argument.
Sorry to break it to you, but I lived in Creve Coeur in the early 80's and you've always had to stop before making a right turn on red there, and everywhere I've lived. In the case of a right turn a red light is like a stop sign.
Personally I'm offended by speed and red light cameras as it's clear it's primarily for revenue, not safety. There is one on a major street near her (120th and Shea for locals) and all it does is control speed at a point, not overall - people drive 65-70, as they approach it they slow to 55 or so (SL is 50) and immediately after the sensor speed right back up to 70. Since the camera is mid block it does nothing to slow people down through intersections, and since the road is 3 lanes each direction and divided, I can see no real safety issues that it addresses, hence my conclusion that it's for revenue only.
I've been snapped a few times but never received a ticket, but be assured that if I ever do it's going in the round file.
The Free market *could* work if it were *actually* free. When you choice is limited because there is only one cable provider in your area, and your other choice is a satellite dish or OTA programming you're kinda fucked. If I could pick between say, Cox, Comcast, and Time Warner then there would be competition and incentive to provide better services, assuming that the government enforces the anti-trust laws (good luck with that). As it is I pay $50 a month for freaking cable with no special channels and no DVR (I refuse to purchase any of their extended services), and my only other choice is a satellite dish, or basically nothing, which is unacceptable. I think your position is extremely ivory tower and not at all realistic.
So I disagree with "That's the only reason it doesn't work. There is none other." With Cable providers and utilities there is *no* competition. Just like I'm stuck with Salt River Project for power. I'd switch to APS if I could, but they don't service my area and I can't just tell SRP no thanks I don't need electricity.
IMO the primary problem is that the big cable companies, telecommunications companies, etc. are in bed with the politicians, and they are collectively bending us over and pounding us in the ass. With sand.
In an attempt to curb [Type_of_Crime] the government of [Country] has [Required_Registration || Restriction] of [Device || Devices]
The net result of which has been to inconvenience and annoy honest citizens and not affect criminals at all since they don't follow the laws and working around [Required_Registration || Restriction] is trivially easy.
I'll be getting an iPad. I'll be upgrading my v1 iPhone to the new one that come out this summer.
And so will millions of others...
Lee Brimelow may be right, or he may not. I don't have time to read the article. But I will say that if he ever hopes to resolve the situation, as an Adobe employee complaining in public in an (apparently) official capacity, he's not helping the situation. This only adds to the bad vibes, and Steve is stubborn and this will only serve to bolster his resolve if it does anything at all.
In my personal experience Adobe products, especially CS4 and acrobat, have become unwieldy, bloated pieces of software on the Mac, and I know that acrobat on Windows is so big it's almost unusable. Maybe Lee should quit bitching about Apple and get on Adobe's developers to develop higher quality software. As a paying Adobe customer, I would appreciate that immensely.
Explosion / expansion. Whatever. there was an incredible amount of mass packed in to a tiny area under incredible pressures that expanded rapidly for some reason. I think it perfectly reasonable for a layperson to describe the big bang as an explosion and still have a grasp of what it means.
While I agree that many Americans prefer to believe that the magic man in the sky is responsible for everything, I have to disagree with you a bit on bringing up the infant mortality rate. One of the most significant reasons (if not the primary reason) that the mortality rate is higher in the US that other countries is due to the number of premature births in this country. 12.5% of births in the US are premature, and a premature baby has a much higher incidence of mortality. Premature birth is the number 2 reason for infant mortality behind congenital defects. http://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/541368 The reasons for premature birth are many and varied, but in many cases in the US a couple/mother will opt to carry a child to term that is at significant risk for mortality that would otherwise be aborted in may other developed countries. Please note that this is not a statement in approval or disapproval. I believe that the numbers will show that if you control for the rates of premature birth (which are incredibly high in the US) you will see that the US is on par with most of Europe. Also remember that many countries count things differently. In many countries, for example, it is common to count a live birth that does not live for 24 hours, or is underweight, as still born, whereas in the US a live birth is counted immediately. For example:
Switzerland doesn’t count the death of very small babies, less than 30 centimeters (11.8 inches) in length, as a live birth, according to Nicholas Eberstadt http://www.aei.org/scholar/62, a former visiting fellow at Harvard’s Center for Population and Developmental Studies. So comparing the 1998 infant mortality rates for Switzerland and the U.S. (4.8 and 7.2,respectively, per 1,000 live births) is comparing apples and oranges.
In other countries, such as Italy, definitions vary depending on where you are in the country.
Eberstadt notes “underreporting also seems apparent in the proportion of infant deaths different countries report for the first 24 hours after birth. In Australia, Canada and the United States, over one-third of all infant deaths are reported to take place in the first day.”
The child mortality rate is too high, but I'm not sure what you are trying to imply? I don't think the issue is a simple or cut and dried and you seem to imply, and I don't see any relationship to the topic at hand.
How did you manage to watch it and conclude that it's *not* a warzone? Dudes with guns and RPGs, a column of Bradleys moving up, and the 2 helicopter gun ships should have been your first clue...
I really hope so. In my case it will ALL disappear. We're planning on replacing our 15 year old system which consists of a 60" RPTV, DVD player, XBOX, Cable decoder box, etc, with a 63" LEDLCD TV and a media pc. I will not be buying a dedicated DVD or bluray player, or any dedicated device. I will hook up the PC to my receiver and the TV. That's it. All DVDs and BluRays will get ripped onto the server in the closet. All my music is already on a server. Dedicated devices need too many remotes, take up too much space and collect dust.
Better question is why where these people killed when they were unarmed?
Because there is a column of US vehicles moving into the area taking fire, because there have been recent engagements in that area and because they're not unarmed. Did they have rifles? Yes: one is clearly visible in the video. Do they have one or more RPGs? I don't know from the video, and unless you have super CSI Las Vegas enhancement capabilities you cannot tell that those things are RPGs or something else. People who are watching an edited video and proclaiming without doubt that the "crowd" (8 or 9 people is a crowd?) is unarmed are delusional; just because that's what they want or expect to see doesn't make it so.
What we have, after watching the video twice, is a situation where there have been recent insurgent engagements in that very area and you have advancing US troops. You have threats that appear to be carrying RPGs and have assault rifles. You also have journalists embedded with them trying to get a story. Embedded means that they take the same risks as the people they are embedded with, and it also means that to the other side they are one and the same. During an engagement you do not have the time or the information to try to figure out if some of the bad guys aren't really bad guys; it's not like they (reporters) were wearing bright orange "reporter" shirts. Journalists embedded with collation troops get killed too, you know.
It is extremely unfortunate that children were injured, but I disagree with those that say the children were "clearly visible" and "identified as children" - they must have been watching another video or using the aforementioned CSI super enhance. I somewhat agree with the pilot - what the fuck were those people in the van thinking taking children to that engagement? It is unfortunate that they are injured, but that could have been easily avoided by not taking the kids to a fucking gun battle in the first place. Also, my understanding that insurgents showing up in vans and pickups to collect weapons and such is common practice.
Based on what I saw in the video I want to give these guys the benefit of the doubt until I see some neutral, expert analysis. Not jump-on-the-bandwagon analysis from Slashdot, and not the "analysis" of WikiLeaks".
Let me put it another way. If I was over there and I saw a group of 8 or 9 guys with what I thought were RPGs I'd have just called in a JDAM strike
A gun is just a tool. The purpose relates to the intent of the person with the gun.
My intent with my Glock, and therefore the purpose is self defense from criminals, and wild animals. If you have to go to south Phoenix with a lot of cash, or happen to be walking your dog and happen upon a herd of Javilina in the spring, you'll see what I mean.
My intent with my rifle, and therefore the purpose is recreation. It's fun and challenging to shoot targets 100s of yards away with iron sights.
My father's intent with his rifle is to shoot, and subsequently eat a deer, therefore the purpose is hunting.
A criminal's intent bay be to kill a competitor or rob a store, therefore the purpose is to kill or at least threaten people.
Tools do not have intent; they are inert. It takes a person to bring intent and purpose to the tool.
yep. As I said, where I live there are lots of guns, but very little crime, but I live in a nice area. Therefore I conclude, unscientifically, that the density of gun ownership is not the only, or even the primary factor.
I've watched 3:40 to 4:00 5 times and the guy to the upper right of the cross-hairs is clearly carrying something that is not a camera, and if it's a tripod it's a really fucking big one. I cannot tell from the video what it is, and if you are saying that from the video that you can identify that it is definitely mot a weapon, then you are using CSI image enhancement techniques unavailable to the rest of us.
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I was actually thinking of swinging by the Apple store on my way home from the gun range and WalMart, but the pick-up still has a bunch of dear guts in the bed, so I'll need to drive the Expedition and skip WalMart. Nothing like Core i7 goodness for calculating ballistics.
Exactly.
1TB drive from NewEgg
Netflix account
AnyDVD
I know that some of you will suggest that what I'm doing is wrong, but I don't think so. I don't see the difference between this and setting my DVR to record the movies off HBO or something and keeping the movie around indefinitely on the DVR. I've still recorded a copy I can watch multiple times. Now it I torrent that copy, that's a different argument.
Sorry to break it to you, but I lived in Creve Coeur in the early 80's and you've always had to stop before making a right turn on red there, and everywhere I've lived. In the case of a right turn a red light is like a stop sign.
In Arizona a mailed ticked does not carry the force of law and can safely be ignored. They have to serve you to make it legal, and they usually don't unless you're a repeat offender. http://blogs.phoenixnewtimes.com/valleyfever/2008/12/how_to_beat_a_photo_enforcemen.php
Personally I'm offended by speed and red light cameras as it's clear it's primarily for revenue, not safety. There is one on a major street near her (120th and Shea for locals) and all it does is control speed at a point, not overall - people drive 65-70, as they approach it they slow to 55 or so (SL is 50) and immediately after the sensor speed right back up to 70. Since the camera is mid block it does nothing to slow people down through intersections, and since the road is 3 lanes each direction and divided, I can see no real safety issues that it addresses, hence my conclusion that it's for revenue only.
I've been snapped a few times but never received a ticket, but be assured that if I ever do it's going in the round file.
Red means stop
Green means go
Yellow means go faster
The Free market *could* work if it were *actually* free. When you choice is limited because there is only one cable provider in your area, and your other choice is a satellite dish or OTA programming you're kinda fucked. If I could pick between say, Cox, Comcast, and Time Warner then there would be competition and incentive to provide better services, assuming that the government enforces the anti-trust laws (good luck with that). As it is I pay $50 a month for freaking cable with no special channels and no DVR (I refuse to purchase any of their extended services), and my only other choice is a satellite dish, or basically nothing, which is unacceptable. I think your position is extremely ivory tower and not at all realistic.
So I disagree with "That's the only reason it doesn't work. There is none other." With Cable providers and utilities there is *no* competition. Just like I'm stuck with Salt River Project for power. I'd switch to APS if I could, but they don't service my area and I can't just tell SRP no thanks I don't need electricity.
IMO the primary problem is that the big cable companies, telecommunications companies, etc. are in bed with the politicians, and they are collectively bending us over and pounding us in the ass. With sand.
Mexico.
Give poor dude $100 to buy cell phone for you and register it.
In an attempt to curb [Type_of_Crime] the government of [Country] has [Required_Registration || Restriction] of [Device || Devices]
The net result of which has been to inconvenience and annoy honest citizens and not affect criminals at all since they don't follow the laws and working around [Required_Registration || Restriction] is trivially easy.
i shouldnt have to wait for a damn 3rd party ad provider's clogged servers to view the actual page im visiting.*
* unless that 3rd party is Google, of course
And why should it be the government responsibility to dictate morals?
It's not, but a lot of dipshits keep voting for other dipshits that think it is.
Bottom line:
I'll be getting an iPad. I'll be upgrading my v1 iPhone to the new one that come out this summer.
And so will millions of others...
Lee Brimelow may be right, or he may not. I don't have time to read the article. But I will say that if he ever hopes to resolve the situation, as an Adobe employee complaining in public in an (apparently) official capacity, he's not helping the situation. This only adds to the bad vibes, and Steve is stubborn and this will only serve to bolster his resolve if it does anything at all.
In my personal experience Adobe products, especially CS4 and acrobat, have become unwieldy, bloated pieces of software on the Mac, and I know that acrobat on Windows is so big it's almost unusable. Maybe Lee should quit bitching about Apple and get on Adobe's developers to develop higher quality software. As a paying Adobe customer, I would appreciate that immensely.
Explosion / expansion. Whatever. there was an incredible amount of mass packed in to a tiny area under incredible pressures that expanded rapidly for some reason. I think it perfectly reasonable for a layperson to describe the big bang as an explosion and still have a grasp of what it means.
Theory or hypothesis?
So many people throw the word theory around, apparently without a clue what it means.
Somehow I doubt that your personal "theory" is "every bit as good as any that Science has to offer"
While I agree that many Americans prefer to believe that the magic man in the sky is responsible for everything, I have to disagree with you a bit on bringing up the infant mortality rate. One of the most significant reasons (if not the primary reason) that the mortality rate is higher in the US that other countries is due to the number of premature births in this country. 12.5% of births in the US are premature, and a premature baby has a much higher incidence of mortality. Premature birth is the number 2 reason for infant mortality behind congenital defects. http://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/541368 The reasons for premature birth are many and varied, but in many cases in the US a couple/mother will opt to carry a child to term that is at significant risk for mortality that would otherwise be aborted in may other developed countries. Please note that this is not a statement in approval or disapproval. I believe that the numbers will show that if you control for the rates of premature birth (which are incredibly high in the US) you will see that the US is on par with most of Europe. Also remember that many countries count things differently. In many countries, for example, it is common to count a live birth that does not live for 24 hours, or is underweight, as still born, whereas in the US a live birth is counted immediately. For example:
Switzerland doesn’t count the death of very small babies, less than 30 centimeters (11.8 inches) in length, as a live birth, according to Nicholas Eberstadt http://www.aei.org/scholar/62, a former visiting fellow at Harvard’s Center for Population and Developmental Studies. So comparing the 1998 infant mortality rates for Switzerland and the U.S. (4.8 and 7.2,respectively, per 1,000 live births) is comparing apples and oranges.
In other countries, such as Italy, definitions vary depending on where you are in the country.
Eberstadt notes “underreporting also seems apparent in the proportion of infant deaths different countries report for the first 24 hours after birth. In Australia, Canada and the United States, over one-third of all infant deaths are reported to take place in the first day.”
The child mortality rate is too high, but I'm not sure what you are trying to imply? I don't think the issue is a simple or cut and dried and you seem to imply, and I don't see any relationship to the topic at hand.
You've been eaten by a Grue.
How did you manage to watch it and conclude that it's *not* a warzone? Dudes with guns and RPGs, a column of Bradleys moving up, and the 2 helicopter gun ships should have been your first clue...
I really hope so. In my case it will ALL disappear. We're planning on replacing our 15 year old system which consists of a 60" RPTV, DVD player, XBOX, Cable decoder box, etc, with a 63" LEDLCD TV and a media pc. I will not be buying a dedicated DVD or bluray player, or any dedicated device. I will hook up the PC to my receiver and the TV. That's it. All DVDs and BluRays will get ripped onto the server in the closet. All my music is already on a server. Dedicated devices need too many remotes, take up too much space and collect dust.
Better question is why where these people killed when they were unarmed?
Because there is a column of US vehicles moving into the area taking fire, because there have been recent engagements in that area and because they're not unarmed. Did they have rifles? Yes: one is clearly visible in the video. Do they have one or more RPGs? I don't know from the video, and unless you have super CSI Las Vegas enhancement capabilities you cannot tell that those things are RPGs or something else. People who are watching an edited video and proclaiming without doubt that the "crowd" (8 or 9 people is a crowd?) is unarmed are delusional; just because that's what they want or expect to see doesn't make it so.
What we have, after watching the video twice, is a situation where there have been recent insurgent engagements in that very area and you have advancing US troops. You have threats that appear to be carrying RPGs and have assault rifles. You also have journalists embedded with them trying to get a story. Embedded means that they take the same risks as the people they are embedded with, and it also means that to the other side they are one and the same. During an engagement you do not have the time or the information to try to figure out if some of the bad guys aren't really bad guys; it's not like they (reporters) were wearing bright orange "reporter" shirts. Journalists embedded with collation troops get killed too, you know.
It is extremely unfortunate that children were injured, but I disagree with those that say the children were "clearly visible" and "identified as children" - they must have been watching another video or using the aforementioned CSI super enhance. I somewhat agree with the pilot - what the fuck were those people in the van thinking taking children to that engagement? It is unfortunate that they are injured, but that could have been easily avoided by not taking the kids to a fucking gun battle in the first place. Also, my understanding that insurgents showing up in vans and pickups to collect weapons and such is common practice.
Based on what I saw in the video I want to give these guys the benefit of the doubt until I see some neutral, expert analysis. Not jump-on-the-bandwagon analysis from Slashdot, and not the "analysis" of WikiLeaks".
Let me put it another way. If I was over there and I saw a group of 8 or 9 guys with what I thought were RPGs I'd have just called in a JDAM strike
Do not be obtuse.
Not really
A gun is just a tool. The purpose relates to the intent of the person with the gun.
My intent with my Glock, and therefore the purpose is self defense from criminals, and wild animals. If you have to go to south Phoenix with a lot of cash, or happen to be walking your dog and happen upon a herd of Javilina in the spring, you'll see what I mean.
My intent with my rifle, and therefore the purpose is recreation. It's fun and challenging to shoot targets 100s of yards away with iron sights.
My father's intent with his rifle is to shoot, and subsequently eat a deer, therefore the purpose is hunting.
A criminal's intent bay be to kill a competitor or rob a store, therefore the purpose is to kill or at least threaten people.
Tools do not have intent; they are inert. It takes a person to bring intent and purpose to the tool.
All I know is that when I go visit my 87 year old grandma at the old folks home, I develop a burning desire to go to the gym and eat broccoli.
yep. As I said, where I live there are lots of guns, but very little crime, but I live in a nice area. Therefore I conclude, unscientifically, that the density of gun ownership is not the only, or even the primary factor.
I've watched 3:40 to 4:00 5 times and the guy to the upper right of the cross-hairs is clearly carrying something that is not a camera, and if it's a tripod it's a really fucking big one. I cannot tell from the video what it is, and if you are saying that from the video that you can identify that it is definitely mot a weapon, then you are using CSI image enhancement techniques unavailable to the rest of us.
... a manned flight program.
ya think?