That said, I have not seen pop-ups and popuder ads for years.
That would be when every browser on the market blocked pop-ups/unders by default?
Think about that. People found pop-ups to be so obnoxious that every browser on the market actually changed its default behaviour, every browser on the market had specific code added to enable blocking of these obnoxious elements.
Fortunately, advertisers and website owners took the hint and realised that attacking your intended audience is bad... oh wait...
This is one of the most useful secondary features of ABP. Being able to permanently block those retarded floating elements, hover-menus, hair-trigger roll-over pop-ups, unpausable see-also animations, etc, even though they come from the same server as the actual content.
Actually Texas is one of the only Confederate states that is currently paying its own way. (Ie, providing more in Federal revenue than it takes in welfare.) Losing the South would be a net win, but losing the South and keeping the blue parts of Texas would be even better.
For fun, ctrl-F "slave", then quickly alt-N through the document. "Obsessed much?" But, Hessian, do read through them properly. Note the tone of indignation that anyone would dare object to slavery. Hell, the Mississippian declaration is a check-list of rhetorical arguments still used by conservative politicians and Fox's talking heads:
"It has enlisted its press, its pulpit and its schools against us, until the whole popular mind of the North is excited and inflamed with prejudice." The lamestream media and liberal schools/teachers' unions are brainwashing the nation against conservative values.
"It has nullified the Fugitive Slave Law in almost every free State in the Union, and has utterly broken the compact which our fathers pledged their faith to maintain." "State's Rights!"... except for the other states. (And those endless appeals to the sacred Founders, who were totally on our side.)
"It seeks not to elevate or to support the slave, but to destroy his present condition without providing a better." Substitute "welfare" for "freeing slaves".
"We must either submit to degradation, and to the loss of property worth four billions of money, or we must secede from the Union framed by our fathers," We're not slave-owners, we're job creators.
"It advocates negro equality, socially and politically, and promotes insurrection and incendiarism in our midst." Or gay rights, or equal pay, or affirmative action.
"It knows no relenting or hesitation in its purposes; it stops not in its march of aggression, and leaves us no room to hope for cessation or for pause. " It's War! War on Christmas, on Christianity, and on America!
"It has recently obtained control of the Government, by the prosecution of its unhallowed schemes, and destroyed the last expectation of living together in friendship and brotherhood." That illegitimate, divisive government; how dare they win elections!
"It tramples the original equality of the South under foot." No awareness of irony.
Oh, and there's even made-up "science": "and by an imperious law of nature, none but the black race can bear exposure to the tropical sun."
Given how much whining there is over base closures now, imagine when the US suddenly closes every base in the seceding south. And immediately discharges every servicemen who comes from a seceding state (unless they move to a northern state and apply for US citizenship during the transition period.) And cancels all contracts with defence contractors in the seceding states. And...
Gas let out of a room-temperature bottle will drop sharply in temperature. It is also likely to be dry. Near-freezing, dry "air" is uncomfortable to breath. Warm water makes it difficult to tell you are breathing anything odd. Although I take this from people breathing bottled oxygen for long periods; Perhaps death comes quickly enough that it's not an issue... but can't say I've ever tried killing myself using this method... "It would be impossible to discuss the subject without a common frame-of-reference."
Couldn't you pick any "pure" gas that wasn't O2 (Ne, He, H, whatever)?
Yes. Although I'd skip hydrogen. It would work, but you're releasing a flammable gas into a closed environment. Not good for the people who find you. But anything else that doesn't cause discomfort, or carry a strong smell. I chose nitrogen because, you know, {waves arm in direction of Earth's atmosphere}.
Wouldn't CO be quicker than N2?
The problem with CO & CO2 is that we apparently have a mechanism for detected higher levels in the blood, and for many people it's triggers the feeling of suffocating, the panic. By using an inert gas, without oxygen, you bypass that mechanism, preventing that last-second panic. The whole point is to die peacefully, after all.
Chill dude, it's just the sort of preface anyone should make when discussing suicide. "I'm not suggesting anyone do this", "Suicide is stupid/selfish/etc", "Think about the effect on your family/friends", etc, so that signalling approval in the minds of the vulnerable. Copycatting and normalisation is a significant risk with suicide. Nothing to do with terminal illness, which makes up a tiny proportion of suicides, just the regular old fashioned "an heroes".
As the shouty coward says, I meant the understanding most people have about their local area from common experience and easily accessed non-specialist records.
Or to put it in a more suitably snarky way: Go on then, smart-ass, tell me. Did you actually do that research before you moved there?
Not everywhere is midwest USA where westerners have only known it for a hundred + years...
That's actually my point. The reason certain areas were settled was because they had deep harbours (tectonically active, prone to storms), rivers (major flooding), minerals/coal from mountains (tectonically active, plus landslides in storms), forests for lumber (wildfires, disease), or fertile soil (any of the above). There's a reason so many people in the world live near volcanoes (usually the most fertile soil in the area).
The places that were interesting or useful are the same places that are risky.
I doubt there are many places in the US that have a large enough population for jobs/opportunities, but low climate/geographic risk, and have records going back far enough to prove it, purely because those places were the last places to be settled.
Or, how about moving to somewhere with a safer climate to begin with ?
Geologically and climatologically safe places are almost always boring, empty and low-value.
Fertile soil means flood-plains, which means floods. (Hell even deserts flood every few decades.) Too flat and you can add tornadoes. Forests and parks means fire risk, trees falling in storms, etc. Good views of the sea means storms, up to and including hurricanes, along with coastal erosion. Good views inland usually means hills and mountains, which means landslides, probably earthquakes. Rivers and valleys means floods, landslides, and wild-fire funnelling. Then you've got ice storms if you're too far north, blackouts from too many air-conditioners if you are too far south, resulting in heat-deaths. (Northern hemisphere).
And, even if you pick well, you've only got a few decades of in-your-lifetime awareness of weather events to go on. A century or so if you make an effort to go into the records. That still leaves you fucked if you get a once-in-a-century (-or-three) event. Or if climate changes and makes your previously low risk site suddenly higher risk.
And that's just nature. Then you've got people. Home invasion, riots, arson, government falling, invasion, zombies...
Needlessly elaborate. Remember, Madam Guillotine was as much a show as a method of execution. [Plus a modern version would use a hydraulic ram to push the blade, instead of relying on the speed of the drop. Much more failsafe.]
Try simple nitrogen bubbled through warm water and breathed through a mask, if you want to be "humane" when you murder someone back.
[Although as I said elsewhere, if you feel your society is now too humane to torture criminals, stop killing them. It's not complicated.]
Americans over-complicate things. Voting, health care, banking, death penalty.
If you want the criminal to suffer for their crimes, torture them to death. If your society has moved on and wants to be more humane, stop killing them.
Get a CO2 tank and a solenoid you can put on a timer then go into an enclosed space like a closet. The drugs put you to sleep, the gas makes sure you don't wake up.
Don't forget to put a sign on the door to that room, "WARNING: Excess CO2. Do Not Enter Without FULL Breathing Equipment." Just in case someone tries to interrupt and passes out before they can "rescue" you. Happens occasionally in ship's ballast holds and large water tanks.
If I'm wrong somehow, or you didn't have enough drugs, or you otherwise find it unpleasant, just open the door to the enclosed space.
The CO2 can be enough to make you pass out, but not enough to kill you. Leaving you with enough brain damage, after you are found, to not be able try again. (Still you might be happier.)
However, personally, I'd just use a simple mask with warmed, humidified N2. You don't feel the loss of oxygen without the CO2 build up, you just fall asleep then quietly die. It's always amazed me that the US gas chambers didn't do something that simple and humane.
I considered the UK. But NATO isn't a single unified force like Starfleet. If it was, then that would be a better example.
Even then, all NATO members have strong extradition treaties. (To the point that you can be extradited from your country of birth, to a nation you've never been to, to face charges for activities that are not illegal in your own country. As has happened in the UK.) So I doubt that the UK could offer political amnesty to a rogue US Navy crew even if it wanted to, no matter how daring the rescue of a beloved UK citizen. You would think the same would apply to Star Trek's Federation worlds. After all, the characters do speak of "Federation law".
Also, in most countries in which the US has military bases, or holds exercises, they have a deal where any crimes committed by their personnel while on foreign soil are adjudicated by US military courts, not local civilian courts. (For example, here in Australia.) It's hard to imagine members of a Federation having a lesser agreement for members of a united Federation-wide military force.
Wouldn't that be like California offering asylum to a group of US Navy officers who stole a US warship? (Which they sailed to an unstable new-created volcanic island in the South Pacific to rescue a stranded, and officially presumed dead, colleague, battled a Russian sub crew which was trying to claim the island, destroyed their own (US) ship in a clever plan that left them in control of the Russian sub, which they sailed to California to return the recovered crew-mate to his family.)
they can ask you to leave; if you don't, they can have the police arrest you for trespass.
How can it be trespass if they are preventing you from leaving?
The kid was arrested for "causing a disturbance", not trespass. A meaningless catch-all to justify his detention after the fact, since his detention was the disturbance.
It sounds like it all went wrong when the police arrived,
Judging by TFA, it all went wrong when the security guards grabbed him and tried to get his cameras.
I assume that's what they were giving away. But I think there's something especially geek-cool about having a tiny USB drive on your key-ring that houses an entire emergency operating system. (Maybe I'm just old.)
(A better gimmick would have been to give away USB flash drives with a rock solid linux distro that boots straight into a bunch of diagnostic and recovery tools. "For use after testing Win8." Hint hint.)
Yes, there is a difference between a for-profit corporation with a history of market suppression and three amateurs promoting a freely created alternative.
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I would assume that's an altitude at perigee of 6000km, not the actual perigee.
That said, I have not seen pop-ups and popuder ads for years.
That would be when every browser on the market blocked pop-ups/unders by default?
Think about that. People found pop-ups to be so obnoxious that every browser on the market actually changed its default behaviour, every browser on the market had specific code added to enable blocking of these obnoxious elements.
Fortunately, advertisers and website owners took the hint and realised that attacking your intended audience is bad... oh wait...
This is one of the most useful secondary features of ABP. Being able to permanently block those retarded floating elements, hover-menus, hair-trigger roll-over pop-ups, unpausable see-also animations, etc, even though they come from the same server as the actual content.
How did you get it back? Surgery or time?
Do you make more than one prototype once your first prototype shows the basic method works? Why would you do that?
Pickle's worried about the placebo effect.
Or rather dictionary libel.
Not according to the dictionary app I have on my iPad.
Anyone with half a brain I know of didn't vote. I didn't vote
Man you just walked into that one.
Actually Texas is one of the only Confederate states that is currently paying its own way. (Ie, providing more in Federal revenue than it takes in welfare.) Losing the South would be a net win, but losing the South and keeping the blue parts of Texas would be even better.
Or if Hessian prefers to read it from the horses' mouths:
The declaration of causes of seceding states: http://sunsite.utk.edu/civil-war/reasons.html
For fun, ctrl-F "slave", then quickly alt-N through the document. "Obsessed much?" But, Hessian, do read through them properly. Note the tone of indignation that anyone would dare object to slavery. Hell, the Mississippian declaration is a check-list of rhetorical arguments still used by conservative politicians and Fox's talking heads:
"It has enlisted its press, its pulpit and its schools against us, until the whole popular mind of the North is excited and inflamed with prejudice." The lamestream media and liberal schools/teachers' unions are brainwashing the nation against conservative values.
"It has nullified the Fugitive Slave Law in almost every free State in the Union, and has utterly broken the compact which our fathers pledged their faith to maintain." "State's Rights!"... except for the other states. (And those endless appeals to the sacred Founders, who were totally on our side.)
"It seeks not to elevate or to support the slave, but to destroy his present condition without providing a better." Substitute "welfare" for "freeing slaves".
"We must either submit to degradation, and to the loss of property worth four billions of money, or we must secede from the Union framed by our fathers," We're not slave-owners, we're job creators.
"It advocates negro equality, socially and politically, and promotes insurrection and incendiarism in our midst." Or gay rights, or equal pay, or affirmative action.
"It knows no relenting or hesitation in its purposes; it stops not in its march of aggression, and leaves us no room to hope for cessation or for pause. " It's War! War on Christmas, on Christianity, and on America!
"It has recently obtained control of the Government, by the prosecution of its unhallowed schemes, and destroyed the last expectation of living together in friendship and brotherhood." That illegitimate, divisive government; how dare they win elections!
"It tramples the original equality of the South under foot." No awareness of irony.
Oh, and there's even made-up "science": "and by an imperious law of nature, none but the black race can bear exposure to the tropical sun."
Given how much whining there is over base closures now, imagine when the US suddenly closes every base in the seceding south. And immediately discharges every servicemen who comes from a seceding state (unless they move to a northern state and apply for US citizenship during the transition period.) And cancels all contracts with defence contractors in the seceding states. And...
It's to stop people burning an unauthorised copy onto a blank mouse.
I doubt Mike Quinn could find his own penis.
And why bubbled through warm water?
Gas let out of a room-temperature bottle will drop sharply in temperature. It is also likely to be dry. Near-freezing, dry "air" is uncomfortable to breath. Warm water makes it difficult to tell you are breathing anything odd. Although I take this from people breathing bottled oxygen for long periods; Perhaps death comes quickly enough that it's not an issue... but can't say I've ever tried killing myself using this method... "It would be impossible to discuss the subject without a common frame-of-reference."
Couldn't you pick any "pure" gas that wasn't O2 (Ne, He, H, whatever)?
Yes. Although I'd skip hydrogen. It would work, but you're releasing a flammable gas into a closed environment. Not good for the people who find you. But anything else that doesn't cause discomfort, or carry a strong smell. I chose nitrogen because, you know, {waves arm in direction of Earth's atmosphere}.
Wouldn't CO be quicker than N2?
The problem with CO & CO2 is that we apparently have a mechanism for detected higher levels in the blood, and for many people it's triggers the feeling of suffocating, the panic. By using an inert gas, without oxygen, you bypass that mechanism, preventing that last-second panic. The whole point is to die peacefully, after all.
Chill dude, it's just the sort of preface anyone should make when discussing suicide. "I'm not suggesting anyone do this", "Suicide is stupid/selfish/etc", "Think about the effect on your family/friends", etc, so that signalling approval in the minds of the vulnerable. Copycatting and normalisation is a significant risk with suicide. Nothing to do with terminal illness, which makes up a tiny proportion of suicides, just the regular old fashioned "an heroes".
As the shouty coward says, I meant the understanding most people have about their local area from common experience and easily accessed non-specialist records.
Or to put it in a more suitably snarky way: Go on then, smart-ass, tell me. Did you actually do that research before you moved there?
Not everywhere is midwest USA where westerners have only known it for a hundred + years...
That's actually my point. The reason certain areas were settled was because they had deep harbours (tectonically active, prone to storms), rivers (major flooding), minerals/coal from mountains (tectonically active, plus landslides in storms), forests for lumber (wildfires, disease), or fertile soil (any of the above). There's a reason so many people in the world live near volcanoes (usually the most fertile soil in the area).
The places that were interesting or useful are the same places that are risky.
I doubt there are many places in the US that have a large enough population for jobs/opportunities, but low climate/geographic risk, and have records going back far enough to prove it, purely because those places were the last places to be settled.
Or, how about moving to somewhere with a safer climate to begin with ?
Geologically and climatologically safe places are almost always boring, empty and low-value.
Fertile soil means flood-plains, which means floods. (Hell even deserts flood every few decades.) Too flat and you can add tornadoes. Forests and parks means fire risk, trees falling in storms, etc. Good views of the sea means storms, up to and including hurricanes, along with coastal erosion. Good views inland usually means hills and mountains, which means landslides, probably earthquakes. Rivers and valleys means floods, landslides, and wild-fire funnelling. Then you've got ice storms if you're too far north, blackouts from too many air-conditioners if you are too far south, resulting in heat-deaths. (Northern hemisphere).
And, even if you pick well, you've only got a few decades of in-your-lifetime awareness of weather events to go on. A century or so if you make an effort to go into the records. That still leaves you fucked if you get a once-in-a-century (-or-three) event. Or if climate changes and makes your previously low risk site suddenly higher risk.
And that's just nature. Then you've got people. Home invasion, riots, arson, government falling, invasion, zombies...
Needlessly elaborate. Remember, Madam Guillotine was as much a show as a method of execution. [Plus a modern version would use a hydraulic ram to push the blade, instead of relying on the speed of the drop. Much more failsafe.]
Try simple nitrogen bubbled through warm water and breathed through a mask, if you want to be "humane" when you murder someone back.
[Although as I said elsewhere, if you feel your society is now too humane to torture criminals, stop killing them. It's not complicated.]
Americans over-complicate things. Voting, health care, banking, death penalty.
If you want the criminal to suffer for their crimes, torture them to death. If your society has moved on and wants to be more humane, stop killing them.
Get a CO2 tank and a solenoid you can put on a timer then go into an enclosed space like a closet. The drugs put you to sleep, the gas makes sure you don't wake up.
Don't forget to put a sign on the door to that room, "WARNING: Excess CO2. Do Not Enter Without FULL Breathing Equipment." Just in case someone tries to interrupt and passes out before they can "rescue" you. Happens occasionally in ship's ballast holds and large water tanks.
If I'm wrong somehow, or you didn't have enough drugs, or you otherwise find it unpleasant, just open the door to the enclosed space.
The CO2 can be enough to make you pass out, but not enough to kill you. Leaving you with enough brain damage, after you are found, to not be able try again. (Still you might be happier.)
However, personally, I'd just use a simple mask with warmed, humidified N2. You don't feel the loss of oxygen without the CO2 build up, you just fall asleep then quietly die. It's always amazed me that the US gas chambers didn't do something that simple and humane.
I considered the UK. But NATO isn't a single unified force like Starfleet. If it was, then that would be a better example.
Even then, all NATO members have strong extradition treaties. (To the point that you can be extradited from your country of birth, to a nation you've never been to, to face charges for activities that are not illegal in your own country. As has happened in the UK.) So I doubt that the UK could offer political amnesty to a rogue US Navy crew even if it wanted to, no matter how daring the rescue of a beloved UK citizen. You would think the same would apply to Star Trek's Federation worlds. After all, the characters do speak of "Federation law".
Also, in most countries in which the US has military bases, or holds exercises, they have a deal where any crimes committed by their personnel while on foreign soil are adjudicated by US military courts, not local civilian courts. (For example, here in Australia.) It's hard to imagine members of a Federation having a lesser agreement for members of a united Federation-wide military force.
[IANAL, IDNPAL-on-Star-Trek.]
Wouldn't that be like California offering asylum to a group of US Navy officers who stole a US warship? (Which they sailed to an unstable new-created volcanic island in the South Pacific to rescue a stranded, and officially presumed dead, colleague, battled a Russian sub crew which was trying to claim the island, destroyed their own (US) ship in a clever plan that left them in control of the Russian sub, which they sailed to California to return the recovered crew-mate to his family.)
they can ask you to leave; if you don't, they can have the police arrest you for trespass.
How can it be trespass if they are preventing you from leaving?
The kid was arrested for "causing a disturbance", not trespass. A meaningless catch-all to justify his detention after the fact, since his detention was the disturbance.
It sounds like it all went wrong when the police arrived,
Judging by TFA, it all went wrong when the security guards grabbed him and tried to get his cameras.
I assume that's what they were giving away. But I think there's something especially geek-cool about having a tiny USB drive on your key-ring that houses an entire emergency operating system. (Maybe I'm just old.)
...but someone in a Gnu suit?
Suit? It was just an oversized hat.
(A better gimmick would have been to give away USB flash drives with a rock solid linux distro that boots straight into a bunch of diagnostic and recovery tools. "For use after testing Win8." Hint hint.)
Yes, there is a difference between a for-profit corporation with a history of market suppression and three amateurs promoting a freely created alternative.