Well either I need to be more creative in getting to the site or they have already been shut down, because I keep getting redirected. Oh well, maybe I just need to dig up some proxies.
That word is Fugly. They have spent entirely too much on R&D and not enough on asthetics (--warning spell checker broken, the word indicated my be mispelled and other words that follow as well. I now return you to your regularly scheduled comment already in progress). I know it's just a proof of concept but they could have at least made it look better. It's just a few steel girders welded to gether and with a motor and some fans slapped on it.
To quote James T. Kirk in the Undiscovered Country, "Excuse me but, what does God need with a Star ship?"
Now back to the 21st Century and rework the quote, "Excuse me but, what does the Son of God need with a patent? For that matter why does he need a patent? Who among us mere mortals can even recreate any such power?"
Oh wait I am being logical, I think. Doesn't matter, the guy is a nut case. Be sides God himself would have original claim to the patent any way. If he really were the son of God he would simply be the offspring of the Creator and not the Creator himself. Unless of course you subscribe the holy trinity concept of three beings being one idea in which case there isn't even a set precedence for it on a legal stand point. Jr. doesn't get to claim title to Sr.'s work.
But if we look at this from a ludicrous stand point and by some fluke of supreme stupidity he was granted the patent, he then would have legal backing to sue God and confiscate all of the churches thereby hijacking Christianity in all forms. Perhaps even Judaism, I now return you all to your regularly scheduled psychosis already in progress.
He's also against these rules and has sworn to pardon anyone tried under these rules, so we can at least hope the US guy gets off scot-free.
I hope you are right. This is an absolute fucking sham. But if the King has not been made aware of this incident it would be difficult to pardon the guy. They guy is an American Citizen, on American Soil when this so-called offense occured it is therefore protected speech under the first amendment. Had he done the same thing on Thai Soil at the time then perhaps it would be a different story. The State Department needs to put diplomatic pressure on Thailand and insist on his release.
To all members of the Thai government/royalty if you find any of what I have posted here offensive, too bad. I am an American Citizen, born and raised here in the Great State of Washington (Great, used extremely loosely and almost sarcastically), these comments are my own and I post them here while on American Soil in the afore menstioned State of Washington. And as such are protected under the Constitution of the United States and the afore mentioned State of Washington. I dare you to try and extradite me.
Note, the following is also protected speech. President Barak Hussien Obama, and all of his predecessors that have held the Office of President, despite seemingly being more intelligent that the moron that fucked up the Oath of Office during innaugeration, is a spineless weasle. With the exception of Ronald Reagan who was a mental invalid being controlled by unseen puppet masters. And probaly should have been removed from office for medical reasons. These are my oppinions and they are my own and are protectedc speech.
As my late mother use to say, "There is more than one way to skin a cat." She also said that people who live in glass houses shouldn't throw rocks, and a whole shitload of other cliche's. Now I don't care one way or the other about some British nobody that can't keep his tool for his wife only, but one sure fire way to ensure that someone will do something is to tell them that they can't do it.
There is already a device that can diagnose you as well as 1 doctor. It's called a Magic 8-Ball.
Actually there is a practical diagnostic device that is portable as in hand held. I've seen the comercials for it. It starts off in ancient time where the medicin man comes out ans says, "Lets have a look," and progresses through time until modern times. Again the Dr. says, "Lets have a look," and is holding a hand held ultra sound-like device. Sure it's a far cry from the Star Trek medical tricorder with the swirling wireless scanning device, but it is a start.
Don't worry, the anonymized it by removing your name and address. All they use as an identifier is that random 16-digit number on your card. They have to keep the expiration date as well so they can properly put their data on a time line.
As some one that processes credit card transactions on a daily basis, I know for a fact that all you need to run a credit card at a terminal is the 16 digit number, 15 if it's american express, and the four digit expiration date. The terminal never asks for the card holder's name and only rarely askes for the three digit security code on the back of the card. All they need to complete their pointless and meaningless study is a transaction date and number, and maybe the transaction amount. There is absolutely no need to know who the person is or any other personally identifying or sensitive information.
Thats like predicting which way a car will turn at a junction by looking at it's indicator lights.
That can only end badly, one should never assume that just because someone has their turn signal on that they will actually tune. That would be like assuming that a politician actually has your best interests at heart, and is not actually a low-life back stabbing POS that will say anything to get your vote.
Oh come on now, that kind of rule would preclude any sort of manned space flight. Since the very act of getting a person into space includes a carefully contained and continuous explosion. Now if the rule was, "No uncontroled chain reaction of events that lead to catastrophic failure of the space craft," then ok.
I thought even more though provoking was the little alt-text that accompanied the comic:
'The universe is probably littered with the one-planet graves of cultures which made the sensible economic decision that there's no good reason to go into space -- each discovered, studied, and remembered by the ones who made the irrational decision.'
The only thought more irrational than space exploration is the thought that space exploration is irrational. For such a small planet we have there sure are a lot of assholes on it. Now I ask everyone in all seriousness, why would we not want to populate other worlds with more assholes? Earth has a plethora of them we have enough to share.
Yeah that's what Microsoft says about it's products. But seriously privacy is an illusion we give our selves to feel secure. How dare Apple shatter that illusion. *insert sarcasm at any point in this message.
Indeed.
This case has far more to do with the actions of police state than a criminal investigation.
When will these morons in law enforcement learn: IP Address != Identity.
When they grow a brain. But honestly what is so difficult about setting up a password for a router? It's usually right there under a heading call "Security" Duh. These routers also come with a manual hat you can find on the cd, but I guess that would be too much bother wouldn't it. There is also MAC address filtering, and turning off the SSID broadcast. There are two kinds of problems that can occur with a router,software and user. 9 times out of 10 its user error. Replace user press the Any Key.
You forgot the -4 modifier to intelligence when haggling for the price. There is also the Constitution check at -3 or pass out for 1d4 rounds due to being overcome by the stench. In all of the games of AD&D I have play and DM'd not a single player has ever stated that their character is going to bath.
I think the Klingons would resist switching from Kelikams to Kilometers. But to answer the question asked in the article, the reason for the US' resistence to converting to the metric system is a simple one. Economic considerations aside there is this huge reluctance to change born out of shear laziness.
For instance, I have this friend that will argue with me until she is blue in the face over the superiority of the 24 hour time keeping system used by the military and in Europe. It is less encombersome to say, "Meet me at 1630," than, "Meet me at 4:30 PM."
I don't really think it will be all that expensive to make the switch, we've been more or less doing it over the last several decades. The auto industry as converted, every nut and bolt on my S10 is metric and the speedometer has KmPH and MPH. Right now I think the only real stumbling block is the general populous.
Just tax junk food like is done with cigarettes, alcohol, etc. Use the tax revenues to compensate the extra medical costs.
The only problem is that they don't use the money like it is supposed to. They throw everything into the General Fund and then disburse the money to the prospective accounts. So they end up shorting the accounts that certain taxes were created for, case in point Social Security and Medicare
I wonder if this process can work on other forms of vegetation like weeds and such. If so whole fields of vegetation that would otherwise be an eye sore could become potential fuel.
Today, the terms republic and democracy are virtually interchangeable, but historically the two differed. Democracy implied direct rule by the people, all of whom were equal, whereas republic implied a system of government in which the will of the people was mediated by representatives, who might be wiser and better educated than the average person. In the early American republic, for example, the requirement that voters own property and the establishment of institutions such as the Electoral College were intended to cushion the government from the direct expression of the popular will.
Which is why founding fathers described their creation as a republic back in the day. For a more modern perspective lets see how the US government describes itself today:
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Now that is an answer I can agree with. Argument settled, I hope.
MythBusters should try this. I am sure they could do better.;)
Mythbusters already has done something similar. The myth was about helium baloons causing a person to fly away when the grab a whole string of baloons. They actually got a child to sit in a harness like chair and raiser her off the ground, I think she was four or five, tipping the scales at oh, 50 lbs more or less. Their method appeared sound, findout how many helium ballons it takes to lift 1 lb then calculate the amount of balloons it would take to lift the test subject. First result based on original calculations, test sbject did not fly or float for that matter. I forget the original amount of baloons needed for the calculations but it was in the tens of thousands. They finally managed to get the test subject, a real live five year old to fly but it took a rediculous amount of helium filled ballons in the hundred thousand range.
Bear in mind that these are just ordinary baloons like you would get at a carnival or circus etc.As a kid I remember that a standard sheet of 8.5 X 11, rolled up, was usually sufficient to keep a single baloon grounded. Two baloons and it would get lift, three ballons and up up and away. The house in this video is little more than a wooden frame with a thin shell and they were using huge baloons like the kind they use for weather balloons. I wonder how many of those balloons it would take to give lift to a five year old?
I'm not sure I agree - the postings concerned the school, and I would say that that was enough to justify them taking disciplinary action. But that's not the main point here.
The main point is, I think, this: would you prefer a world where the recourse of schools on encountering this sort of conduct is a civil suit?
While in some cases schools acting over matters that take place outside school hours will result in punishment for conduct that otherwise would go unpunished in many cases it allows for a disciplinary system that doesn't involve the civil or criminal courts, doesn't impose large fines or costs orders and doesn't expose the student to the coercive powers of the state, like contempt orders, injunctions or imprisonment. That surely is a good thing?
Point well taken, I can see its merits and I am inclined to agree. But I do try to see things from different perspectives. Taken from the perspective of one of the affected students or perhaps even their parents that might disagree with the school's actions, it might be a valid venue for challenging the school. Although it would be better to count their blessings and move on, the country does tend to be civil suit happy.
Is it me or is Facebook becoming the world wide forum for people who do stupid things?
So it's a good thing that Google can, has, and will continue to remote remove (remote kill) applications downloaded onto phones.
Apple has removed apps from their store, but never from the phone itself once the app has been downloaded.
When it comes to clueless and apathetic users I would have to say yes, it is a very good thing. I recently just cleaned out a friends computer that was infected with a browser hijack and a few other nasties. She is a sweet person bless her heart, but absolutely clueless to any kind of computer security. Aside from the fact that her computer runs Vista (spits), she had zero updates, count 'em zero updates installed. Not even so much as SP1, I was quite surprised that she didn't have a more serious problem. It's one thing for MS to install covert patches for their own dubious reasons. But google is taking decisive action to protect its consumers while at the same time covering their own asses and ultimately protecting their bottom line. This is, I think, good PR.
While I agree that this not a free speech issue, but rather a defamation of character issue. But at the same time I think the school over stepped its authority here. If the middle school is like any other school in the country that specifically blocks social networking sites on their networks, then the postings we done off of school property and therefore the school has no authority to hand out discipline for a rule infraction that occur off campus and out side their sphere of influence/jurisdiction. This whole issue is a civil matter and not a school matter. In my opinion.
I knew that this had to come up sooner or later. Once the private space industry gets going into full swing then we can all look forward to the obvious TV show to come. (Que the stupid microphone effects) "Red Necks in Space!"
No, that enemy being any country/person unfriendly to the US. I was expecting this to happen, what PFC Manning did was nothing short of treason. Soldiers are not protected by the constitution live civilians are. There rights and privileges are dictated by the UCMJ (Uniform Code of Military Justice) and the plethora of other regulations. A soldier must think before he/she speaks or acts in any manner tha may reflect negatively on the US or the Branch of service he/she is in. Don't get me wrong here, I am not condemning Manning, his courts martial will do that. People don't realize the sacrifices that our service men and women make when they sign on the dotted line and take the oath: "I do solumnly swear to preserve protect and defend the constitution of the united states, from all enemies foreign and domestic. I will obey the orders of the president of the united states, and the officers appointed over me; according to regulations and the uniform code of military justice. I take this oath freely without resevation or purpose of evasion. So help me God. (This part is ommited if the person has religious or other objections but is just as binding.)"
PFC Manning knew that the documents released were classified and that the US's enemies can and will get these documents and use them against the United States. That information was classified for a reason, whether that reason is legitimate or not is irrelevant. It is the duty of every soldier with access to classified documents to protect and prevent said information from falling in the hands of the enemy. Willfully failing to do that constitutes treason and dereliction of duty at the very least. It was a poor decision on his part and if they don't execute him he will be in a military prison for a very long time. There is not a military court in the whole of the military that will acquit him. Again I am not condemning Manning for his action just telling it like it really is. There is no point in sugar coating it, he is done for and he knows it.
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Well either I need to be more creative in getting to the site or they have already been shut down, because I keep getting redirected. Oh well, maybe I just need to dig up some proxies.
That word is Fugly. They have spent entirely too much on R&D and not enough on asthetics (--warning spell checker broken, the word indicated my be mispelled and other words that follow as well. I now return you to your regularly scheduled comment already in progress). I know it's just a proof of concept but they could have at least made it look better. It's just a few steel girders welded to gether and with a motor and some fans slapped on it.
To quote James T. Kirk in the Undiscovered Country, "Excuse me but, what does God need with a Star ship?" Now back to the 21st Century and rework the quote, "Excuse me but, what does the Son of God need with a patent? For that matter why does he need a patent? Who among us mere mortals can even recreate any such power?" Oh wait I am being logical, I think. Doesn't matter, the guy is a nut case. Be sides God himself would have original claim to the patent any way. If he really were the son of God he would simply be the offspring of the Creator and not the Creator himself. Unless of course you subscribe the holy trinity concept of three beings being one idea in which case there isn't even a set precedence for it on a legal stand point. Jr. doesn't get to claim title to Sr.'s work. But if we look at this from a ludicrous stand point and by some fluke of supreme stupidity he was granted the patent, he then would have legal backing to sue God and confiscate all of the churches thereby hijacking Christianity in all forms. Perhaps even Judaism, I now return you all to your regularly scheduled psychosis already in progress.
He's also against these rules and has sworn to pardon anyone tried under these rules, so we can at least hope the US guy gets off scot-free.
I hope you are right. This is an absolute fucking sham. But if the King has not been made aware of this incident it would be difficult to pardon the guy. They guy is an American Citizen, on American Soil when this so-called offense occured it is therefore protected speech under the first amendment. Had he done the same thing on Thai Soil at the time then perhaps it would be a different story. The State Department needs to put diplomatic pressure on Thailand and insist on his release.
To all members of the Thai government/royalty if you find any of what I have posted here offensive, too bad. I am an American Citizen, born and raised here in the Great State of Washington (Great, used extremely loosely and almost sarcastically), these comments are my own and I post them here while on American Soil in the afore menstioned State of Washington. And as such are protected under the Constitution of the United States and the afore mentioned State of Washington. I dare you to try and extradite me.
Note, the following is also protected speech. President Barak Hussien Obama, and all of his predecessors that have held the Office of President, despite seemingly being more intelligent that the moron that fucked up the Oath of Office during innaugeration, is a spineless weasle. With the exception of Ronald Reagan who was a mental invalid being controlled by unseen puppet masters. And probaly should have been removed from office for medical reasons. These are my oppinions and they are my own and are protectedc speech.
...why not do the same to the people who have been restricting all their other freedoms, too?
Because they are afraid of those people. The memory of June 4th 1989, probably is still quite strong.
As my late mother use to say, "There is more than one way to skin a cat." She also said that people who live in glass houses shouldn't throw rocks, and a whole shitload of other cliche's. Now I don't care one way or the other about some British nobody that can't keep his tool for his wife only, but one sure fire way to ensure that someone will do something is to tell them that they can't do it.
There is already a device that can diagnose you as well as 1 doctor. It's called a Magic 8-Ball.
Actually there is a practical diagnostic device that is portable as in hand held. I've seen the comercials for it. It starts off in ancient time where the medicin man comes out ans says, "Lets have a look," and progresses through time until modern times. Again the Dr. says, "Lets have a look," and is holding a hand held ultra sound-like device. Sure it's a far cry from the Star Trek medical tricorder with the swirling wireless scanning device, but it is a start.
Don't worry, the anonymized it by removing your name and address. All they use as an identifier is that random 16-digit number on your card. They have to keep the expiration date as well so they can properly put their data on a time line.
As some one that processes credit card transactions on a daily basis, I know for a fact that all you need to run a credit card at a terminal is the 16 digit number, 15 if it's american express, and the four digit expiration date. The terminal never asks for the card holder's name and only rarely askes for the three digit security code on the back of the card. All they need to complete their pointless and meaningless study is a transaction date and number, and maybe the transaction amount. There is absolutely no need to know who the person is or any other personally identifying or sensitive information.
Thats like predicting which way a car will turn at a junction by looking at it's indicator lights.
That can only end badly, one should never assume that just because someone has their turn signal on that they will actually tune. That would be like assuming that a politician actually has your best interests at heart, and is not actually a low-life back stabbing POS that will say anything to get your vote.
Well we could always beam Tribble onto a Klingon vessel. Klingons and Tribbles don't get along. *Cue the lame joke sound byte.*
No exploding
Oh come on now, that kind of rule would preclude any sort of manned space flight. Since the very act of getting a person into space includes a carefully contained and continuous explosion. Now if the rule was, "No uncontroled chain reaction of events that lead to catastrophic failure of the space craft," then ok.
I thought even more though provoking was the little alt-text that accompanied the comic:
'The universe is probably littered with the one-planet graves of cultures which made the sensible economic decision that there's no good reason to go into space -- each discovered, studied, and remembered by the ones who made the irrational decision.'
The only thought more irrational than space exploration is the thought that space exploration is irrational. For such a small planet we have there sure are a lot of assholes on it. Now I ask everyone in all seriousness, why would we not want to populate other worlds with more assholes? Earth has a plethora of them we have enough to share.
it's not a bug, it's a feature!
Yeah that's what Microsoft says about it's products. But seriously privacy is an illusion we give our selves to feel secure. How dare Apple shatter that illusion. *insert sarcasm at any point in this message.
Indeed. This case has far more to do with the actions of police state than a criminal investigation. When will these morons in law enforcement learn: IP Address != Identity.
When they grow a brain. But honestly what is so difficult about setting up a password for a router? It's usually right there under a heading call "Security" Duh. These routers also come with a manual hat you can find on the cd, but I guess that would be too much bother wouldn't it. There is also MAC address filtering, and turning off the SSID broadcast. There are two kinds of problems that can occur with a router,software and user. 9 times out of 10 its user error. Replace user press the Any Key.
You forgot the -4 modifier to intelligence when haggling for the price. There is also the Constitution check at -3 or pass out for 1d4 rounds due to being overcome by the stench. In all of the games of AD&D I have play and DM'd not a single player has ever stated that their character is going to bath.
I think the Klingons would resist switching from Kelikams to Kilometers. But to answer the question asked in the article, the reason for the US' resistence to converting to the metric system is a simple one. Economic considerations aside there is this huge reluctance to change born out of shear laziness. For instance, I have this friend that will argue with me until she is blue in the face over the superiority of the 24 hour time keeping system used by the military and in Europe. It is less encombersome to say, "Meet me at 1630," than, "Meet me at 4:30 PM." I don't really think it will be all that expensive to make the switch, we've been more or less doing it over the last several decades. The auto industry as converted, every nut and bolt on my S10 is metric and the speedometer has KmPH and MPH. Right now I think the only real stumbling block is the general populous.
Just tax junk food like is done with cigarettes, alcohol, etc. Use the tax revenues to compensate the extra medical costs.
The only problem is that they don't use the money like it is supposed to. They throw everything into the General Fund and then disburse the money to the prospective accounts. So they end up shorting the accounts that certain taxes were created for, case in point Social Security and Medicare
I wonder if this process can work on other forms of vegetation like weeds and such. If so whole fields of vegetation that would otherwise be an eye sore could become potential fuel.
Today, the terms republic and democracy are virtually interchangeable, but historically the two differed. Democracy implied direct rule by the people, all of whom were equal, whereas republic implied a system of government in which the will of the people was mediated by representatives, who might be wiser and better educated than the average person. In the early American republic, for example, the requirement that voters own property and the establishment of institutions such as the Electoral College were intended to cushion the government from the direct expression of the popular will.
Which is why founding fathers described their creation as a republic back in the day. For a more modern perspective lets see how the US government describes itself today: >
Now that is an answer I can agree with. Argument settled, I hope.
MythBusters should try this. I am sure they could do better. ;)
Mythbusters already has done something similar. The myth was about helium baloons causing a person to fly away when the grab a whole string of baloons. They actually got a child to sit in a harness like chair and raiser her off the ground, I think she was four or five, tipping the scales at oh, 50 lbs more or less. Their method appeared sound, findout how many helium ballons it takes to lift 1 lb then calculate the amount of balloons it would take to lift the test subject. First result based on original calculations, test sbject did not fly or float for that matter. I forget the original amount of baloons needed for the calculations but it was in the tens of thousands. They finally managed to get the test subject, a real live five year old to fly but it took a rediculous amount of helium filled ballons in the hundred thousand range.
Bear in mind that these are just ordinary baloons like you would get at a carnival or circus etc.As a kid I remember that a standard sheet of 8.5 X 11, rolled up, was usually sufficient to keep a single baloon grounded. Two baloons and it would get lift, three ballons and up up and away. The house in this video is little more than a wooden frame with a thin shell and they were using huge baloons like the kind they use for weather balloons. I wonder how many of those balloons it would take to give lift to a five year old?
I'm not sure I agree - the postings concerned the school, and I would say that that was enough to justify them taking disciplinary action. But that's not the main point here.
The main point is, I think, this: would you prefer a world where the recourse of schools on encountering this sort of conduct is a civil suit?
While in some cases schools acting over matters that take place outside school hours will result in punishment for conduct that otherwise would go unpunished in many cases it allows for a disciplinary system that doesn't involve the civil or criminal courts, doesn't impose large fines or costs orders and doesn't expose the student to the coercive powers of the state, like contempt orders, injunctions or imprisonment. That surely is a good thing?
Point well taken, I can see its merits and I am inclined to agree. But I do try to see things from different perspectives. Taken from the perspective of one of the affected students or perhaps even their parents that might disagree with the school's actions, it might be a valid venue for challenging the school. Although it would be better to count their blessings and move on, the country does tend to be civil suit happy.
Is it me or is Facebook becoming the world wide forum for people who do stupid things?
So it's a good thing that Google can, has, and will continue to remote remove (remote kill) applications downloaded onto phones.
Apple has removed apps from their store, but never from the phone itself once the app has been downloaded.
When it comes to clueless and apathetic users I would have to say yes, it is a very good thing. I recently just cleaned out a friends computer that was infected with a browser hijack and a few other nasties. She is a sweet person bless her heart, but absolutely clueless to any kind of computer security. Aside from the fact that her computer runs Vista (spits), she had zero updates, count 'em zero updates installed. Not even so much as SP1, I was quite surprised that she didn't have a more serious problem. It's one thing for MS to install covert patches for their own dubious reasons. But google is taking decisive action to protect its consumers while at the same time covering their own asses and ultimately protecting their bottom line. This is, I think, good PR.
While I agree that this not a free speech issue, but rather a defamation of character issue. But at the same time I think the school over stepped its authority here. If the middle school is like any other school in the country that specifically blocks social networking sites on their networks, then the postings we done off of school property and therefore the school has no authority to hand out discipline for a rule infraction that occur off campus and out side their sphere of influence/jurisdiction. This whole issue is a civil matter and not a school matter. In my opinion.
I knew that this had to come up sooner or later. Once the private space industry gets going into full swing then we can all look forward to the obvious TV show to come. (Que the stupid microphone effects) "Red Necks in Space!"
That "enemy" being the American people.
No, that enemy being any country/person unfriendly to the US. I was expecting this to happen, what PFC Manning did was nothing short of treason. Soldiers are not protected by the constitution live civilians are. There rights and privileges are dictated by the UCMJ (Uniform Code of Military Justice) and the plethora of other regulations. A soldier must think before he/she speaks or acts in any manner tha may reflect negatively on the US or the Branch of service he/she is in. Don't get me wrong here, I am not condemning Manning, his courts martial will do that. People don't realize the sacrifices that our service men and women make when they sign on the dotted line and take the oath: "I do solumnly swear to preserve protect and defend the constitution of the united states, from all enemies foreign and domestic. I will obey the orders of the president of the united states, and the officers appointed over me; according to regulations and the uniform code of military justice. I take this oath freely without resevation or purpose of evasion. So help me God. (This part is ommited if the person has religious or other objections but is just as binding.)"
PFC Manning knew that the documents released were classified and that the US's enemies can and will get these documents and use them against the United States. That information was classified for a reason, whether that reason is legitimate or not is irrelevant. It is the duty of every soldier with access to classified documents to protect and prevent said information from falling in the hands of the enemy. Willfully failing to do that constitutes treason and dereliction of duty at the very least. It was a poor decision on his part and if they don't execute him he will be in a military prison for a very long time. There is not a military court in the whole of the military that will acquit him. Again I am not condemning Manning for his action just telling it like it really is. There is no point in sugar coating it, he is done for and he knows it.