Not only that, if you fire a shot into the air, you have no idea where that round is going to hit. By doing so, you are recklessly endangering other people, and should be prosecuted for doing so. As you said, in a self defense situation, you are either justified in the use of deadly force, or you are not. Discharging a firearm in a situation in which you should not use deadly force may well be a crime depending on where you live.
about.com is not really an authoritative source for military info, is it? How about if we try dod.gov? The Navy actually performs the surgery (PRK, not Lasik) for us, and the army is performing the procedure at Ft. Bragg from the link above. I know a number of people who have had it done, and they've all had good results. Pilots and specwar types were the first ones the surgery was made available to.
In addition, I had several people on my last ship who had had the surgery done by civilian doctors -- they simply had to sign a waiver that said they were aware that if their eyes were damaged by the surgery they could be discharged, and the senior medical officer signed off on it without giving them any trouble about it. None of them had any problems whatsoever.
If a lawyer is sending unencrypted, privileged information in an email, I would think that would be grounds for a malpractice suit, wouldn't it? Email is not even close to being suitable for that kind of stuff -- it would be like talking on a party line and expecting your information to remain private.
What dealership do you go to?? All the VW dealers I know of charge 79.99 just to hook your car up to the computer, and that's pretty much standard these days.
Tell your dad to go to tdiclub.com and do a search on radio removal. The radio can be fairly easily removed, you just need some plastic strips cut in the right shape, I don't recall exactly how it's done at the moment. However, don't forget if you do remove the radio and replace it, your warranty is essentially void, as VW dealers will refuse to hook up their diagnostic machines to the car.:) Lots of fun -- I love my diesel, but I sure wish I could get something other than a VW...
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Lots of good info on using SVO(Straight Veggie Oil) and WVO(Waste Veggie Oil) on this page -- those are good terms to search on, BTW if you're looking for more info on this.
Gas is about 2.07usd (National average, last I heard -- where I live it's about 1.93-1.99) and Premium diesel (where I live, I don't know the average) is 1.75usd -- or that's what it was when I last filled up 3 weeks ago...;)
If so, their car had something seriously wrong with it. My TDI Jetta only belched black smoke once -- that was when the shop I took it to screwed up the injection pump timing. Other than that, it runs so quiet and clean that people (even the mechanic I took it to) can't tell it's a diesel until I tell them -- and I drive pedal to the metal all the time.
You've got it backwards... the NON-taxed diesel is dyed to ensure that those of us who drive diesel cars don't buy farm diesel(which is not subject to the "road use" taxes) and run it in our cars. And yes, if a police officer pulls you over and knows to look at the (clear) fuel lines under your hood and sees that your fuel is red instead of clear, you're going to be in for some VERY hefty fines.
That's a common misconception -- the new car diesel engines like my VW TDI Jetta don't really have too many problems unless the temp is so low the fuel will actually gel which is -30-40 or so, IIRC(This is also dependent on where you buy your fuel -- typically in the winter the fuel is winterized and will withstand gelling to a lower temperature than the diesel you'd use in the summer). I believe mine is rated to start at -15 degrees F without any heat source other than the glow-plugs that you'll find in any diesel engine (simply activated by turning the key -- the computer even tells you how long you need to leave it in the glow plug position before starting -- I've never had it make me wait more than 2-3 seconds). Old tractor engines, yes -- you have to plug them in for hours before you even think about cranking them over. Not the cars that are being discussed here.
Besides, the brass may be tough but the grunts guarding it are not above blackmail or greed.
What??
You thinking putting a bar on someone's shoulder makes them "tough?" And just because you call someone a "grunt" they're more suceptible to "blackmail or greed?" Newsflash -- EVERYBODY is suceptible to blackmail and greed. That's why the people who work with nukes are vetted by the security services -- officers and enlisted alike. You think the techs who worked on those missiles didn't know how to bypass those PALs regardless of what password was used?
My point is simple -- don't question someone's patriotism because I'm enlisted -- just because they don't get paid as much doesn't mean their values aren't just as strong as an officer's. The enlisted men and women in the military are the ones you have to trust -- we're the ones who make it all work.
Keep getting a "server too busy" error on send -- usually if I try about 5-15 times it will go through. Plus their virus scanning "service" is deleting a good portion of my incoming mail from my family (which is scanned on the transmitting side -- so I know it's virus free). I'm done with cox -- as soon as I can get dsl installed they're gone.
If you're getting a CS degree and don't know what calculus is used for in your field, you need to find a new field of study. Seriously -- you don't have the faintest idea what you're doing if that's the case.
The tongue-in-cheek example you provided is actually EXACTLY the kind of problem you would find a computer scientist using a computer to solve -- that's what the field exists for! You don't want to have to solve those equations by hand -- they quickly get way too complicated. So you design a way for a computer so do it.
So many CS majors think they're going to go sit in a room by themselves with a requirements statement and a computer and just write code their whole careers -- that's not what CS is!! CS is using computers as a tool to solve real-world science problems, not generating code -- any 2nd year CS student can write a program if they're given a specific assignment. It's figuring out what the problem is supposed to be and then figuring out how to solve it that's why calculus and the other higher math courses are a requirement for the degree.
The point is, if you don't know why the sin of 0 is 0, then it doesn't matter whether you got the answer right or not. I can understand not wanting to do derivatives and integrals -- but if you don't want to learn how to do them, why bother doing them at all? Calculus isn't required for IT degrees, at least not where I study, and if it is required, it's because someone who's probably a whole lot smarter thinks there's a good reason for it.
I find calculus in many things outside a calculus classroom -- just because you don't use it in your job doesn't mean it's useless. Calculus is a way of thinking more than just a problem/solution kind of math -- learning how to do those derivatives and integrals teaches you how to think better than anything else I know of. And those engineers -- you may be right that they do them with computers and calculators all the time, but that doesn't mean they don't need to understand what the computer is doing to solve the problems. If you don't understand how to set up the problem correctly, the computer can't give you the right answer.
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because you need to understand the fundamental concepts behind them. Amount of work isn't the issue -- if you don't know what the sin of 0 is, you don't understand the sin function. Too much math is taught by saying "just punch it in the calculator", and then the student thinks sin is a magical function that throws out these numbers for no reason. Students in high school should never be allowed to use calculators at all -- let alone graphing calculators. They're a crutch that makes it even harder for them when they make it to college, or even the real world.
Using a calculator to do problems in the real world is fine -- but calculators have no place in a learning environment.
This system basically connects a parking garage with the rest of the campus. IIRC (I walk by it every day) it's about a mile or so long, with 2 or 3 stops. It's just a proof of concept at the moment.
I'm sure he's going to have Arwen, the great elf-warrioress that he created for the movie, show up to give Aragorn his standard and fight by his side in the final battle... at which point I will probably vomit in the aisle, get up and leave the movie theatre. If I bother to go at all.
This is a very bad idea for one reason: You have no way of proving whether or not the person casting the vote is casting the vote they want to cast. As a result, you allow outside entities could influence the election, either by duress (vote for the right candidate or you'll lose your job), or by payment (we'll give you 50 bucks to vote for the right candidate). I'm pretty surprised this method would be used anywhere.
The big 3 IM networks are private communities. They don't run on public servers at all.
But they're not -- and they do... In the same sense that my website, while it runs on my private server in my house, is freely available to you, no matter what browser you choose to use to view it. All of these services are freely available to the public!
I've used gaim and trillian for years, so I don't know what the EULAs say for the other programs these days (not that it really matters), but if you publish something on the internet and make it freely available, I don't see that you can regulate what other people use to access it. At the very least, I don't think there are any laws that give you that right -- if I'm wrong, I'd be interested to hear what section of the US Code it violates, and I suspect AOL would as well. I'm sure they'd be suing like crazy if there were any legal foundation for them to do so.
Your comparison to stealing cable or phone service is really disingenuous -- you have to pay to get phone and cable, you don't have to pay to access the AIM servers.
You may not be on solid legal ground here. I didn't see the original release, but the page they have up now says:
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unauthorized copy of Nullsoft's copyrighted software was briefly posted on this website on or about Wednesday May 28, 2003. The software was identified as "WASTE" (the "Software") and includes the files "waste-setup.exe", "waste-source.zip", "waste-source.tar.gz" and any additional files contained in these files.
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If the files were posted by someone who did not have the authorization to post them, then you have no legal right to distribute them, because that person had no right to place the files under the GPL. Of course, we have no way of knowing if that's what really happened, but I'd still be very hesitant to publish the files until someone with the standing to do so weighs in on the issue (Any FSF lawyers reading this?).
Federal law doesn't necessarily trump state law -- it depends a great deal on the circumstances. Federal law typically only comes into play when there is federal jurisdiction, as in a wiretapping case that crosses state lines. Usually wiretapping within a state would fall under that state's laws -- at least that's how it's been explained to me.
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Not only that, if you fire a shot into the air, you have no idea where that round is going to hit. By doing so, you are recklessly endangering other people, and should be prosecuted for doing so. As you said, in a self defense situation, you are either justified in the use of deadly force, or you are not. Discharging a firearm in a situation in which you should not use deadly force may well be a crime depending on where you live.
In addition, I had several people on my last ship who had had the surgery done by civilian doctors -- they simply had to sign a waiver that said they were aware that if their eyes were damaged by the surgery they could be discharged, and the senior medical officer signed off on it without giving them any trouble about it. None of them had any problems whatsoever.
If a lawyer is sending unencrypted, privileged information in an email, I would think that would be grounds for a malpractice suit, wouldn't it? Email is not even close to being suitable for that kind of stuff -- it would be like talking on a party line and expecting your information to remain private.
What dealership do you go to?? All the VW dealers I know of charge 79.99 just to hook your car up to the computer, and that's pretty much standard these days.
Tell your dad to go to tdiclub.com and do a search on radio removal. The radio can be fairly easily removed, you just need some plastic strips cut in the right shape, I don't recall exactly how it's done at the moment. However, don't forget if you do remove the radio and replace it, your warranty is essentially void, as VW dealers will refuse to hook up their diagnostic machines to the car. :) Lots of fun -- I love my diesel, but I sure wish I could get something other than a VW...
The Biodiesel Guy Lots of good info on using SVO(Straight Veggie Oil) and WVO(Waste Veggie Oil) on this page -- those are good terms to search on, BTW if you're looking for more info on this.
Gas is about 2.07usd (National average, last I heard -- where I live it's about 1.93-1.99) and Premium diesel (where I live, I don't know the average) is 1.75usd -- or that's what it was when I last filled up 3 weeks ago... ;)
If so, their car had something seriously wrong with it. My TDI Jetta only belched black smoke once -- that was when the shop I took it to screwed up the injection pump timing. Other than that, it runs so quiet and clean that people (even the mechanic I took it to) can't tell it's a diesel until I tell them -- and I drive pedal to the metal all the time.
You've got it backwards... the NON-taxed diesel is dyed to ensure that those of us who drive diesel cars don't buy farm diesel(which is not subject to the "road use" taxes) and run it in our cars. And yes, if a police officer pulls you over and knows to look at the (clear) fuel lines under your hood and sees that your fuel is red instead of clear, you're going to be in for some VERY hefty fines.
That's a common misconception -- the new car diesel engines like my VW TDI Jetta don't really have too many problems unless the temp is so low the fuel will actually gel which is -30-40 or so, IIRC(This is also dependent on where you buy your fuel -- typically in the winter the fuel is winterized and will withstand gelling to a lower temperature than the diesel you'd use in the summer). I believe mine is rated to start at -15 degrees F without any heat source other than the glow-plugs that you'll find in any diesel engine (simply activated by turning the key -- the computer even tells you how long you need to leave it in the glow plug position before starting -- I've never had it make me wait more than 2-3 seconds). Old tractor engines, yes -- you have to plug them in for hours before you even think about cranking them over. Not the cars that are being discussed here.
and a concealed carry permit.
What?? You thinking putting a bar on someone's shoulder makes them "tough?" And just because you call someone a "grunt" they're more suceptible to "blackmail or greed?" Newsflash -- EVERYBODY is suceptible to blackmail and greed. That's why the people who work with nukes are vetted by the security services -- officers and enlisted alike. You think the techs who worked on those missiles didn't know how to bypass those PALs regardless of what password was used?
My point is simple -- don't question someone's patriotism because I'm enlisted -- just because they don't get paid as much doesn't mean their values aren't just as strong as an officer's. The enlisted men and women in the military are the ones you have to trust -- we're the ones who make it all work.
Keep getting a "server too busy" error on send -- usually if I try about 5-15 times it will go through. Plus their virus scanning "service" is deleting a good portion of my incoming mail from my family (which is scanned on the transmitting side -- so I know it's virus free). I'm done with cox -- as soon as I can get dsl installed they're gone.
The tongue-in-cheek example you provided is actually EXACTLY the kind of problem you would find a computer scientist using a computer to solve -- that's what the field exists for! You don't want to have to solve those equations by hand -- they quickly get way too complicated. So you design a way for a computer so do it.
So many CS majors think they're going to go sit in a room by themselves with a requirements statement and a computer and just write code their whole careers -- that's not what CS is!! CS is using computers as a tool to solve real-world science problems, not generating code -- any 2nd year CS student can write a program if they're given a specific assignment. It's figuring out what the problem is supposed to be and then figuring out how to solve it that's why calculus and the other higher math courses are a requirement for the degree.
The point is, if you don't know why the sin of 0 is 0, then it doesn't matter whether you got the answer right or not. I can understand not wanting to do derivatives and integrals -- but if you don't want to learn how to do them, why bother doing them at all? Calculus isn't required for IT degrees, at least not where I study, and if it is required, it's because someone who's probably a whole lot smarter thinks there's a good reason for it.
I find calculus in many things outside a calculus classroom -- just because you don't use it in your job doesn't mean it's useless. Calculus is a way of thinking more than just a problem/solution kind of math -- learning how to do those derivatives and integrals teaches you how to think better than anything else I know of. And those engineers -- you may be right that they do them with computers and calculators all the time, but that doesn't mean they don't need to understand what the computer is doing to solve the problems. If you don't understand how to set up the problem correctly, the computer can't give you the right answer.
because you need to understand the fundamental concepts behind them. Amount of work isn't the issue -- if you don't know what the sin of 0 is, you don't understand the sin function. Too much math is taught by saying "just punch it in the calculator", and then the student thinks sin is a magical function that throws out these numbers for no reason.
Students in high school should never be allowed to use calculators at all -- let alone graphing calculators. They're a crutch that makes it even harder for them when they make it to college, or even the real world.
Using a calculator to do problems in the real world is fine -- but calculators have no place in a learning environment.
This system basically connects a parking garage with the rest of the campus. IIRC (I walk by it every day) it's about a mile or so long, with 2 or 3 stops. It's just a proof of concept at the moment.
Somebody mod this guy into oblivion -- his website attempted to load software onto my machine, reset my home page, and several other nasty things.
I'm sure he's going to have Arwen, the great elf-warrioress that he created for the movie, show up to give Aragorn his standard and fight by his side in the final battle... at which point I will probably vomit in the aisle, get up and leave the movie theatre. If I bother to go at all.
This is a very bad idea for one reason: You have no way of proving whether or not the person casting the vote is casting the vote they want to cast. As a result, you allow outside entities could influence the election, either by duress (vote for the right candidate or you'll lose your job), or by payment (we'll give you 50 bucks to vote for the right candidate). I'm pretty surprised this method would be used anywhere.
I've used gaim and trillian for years, so I don't know what the EULAs say for the other programs these days (not that it really matters), but if you publish something on the internet and make it freely available, I don't see that you can regulate what other people use to access it. At the very least, I don't think there are any laws that give you that right -- if I'm wrong, I'd be interested to hear what section of the US Code it violates, and I suspect AOL would as well. I'm sure they'd be suing like crazy if there were any legal foundation for them to do so.
Your comparison to stealing cable or phone service is really disingenuous -- you have to pay to get phone and cable, you don't have to pay to access the AIM servers.
Care to explain why it's illegal?
Why should they have to have a license to connect to a public server?
YHBT... he's a well known troll over on K5. If I hadn't already posted in this story I'd have modded it down.
Federal law doesn't necessarily trump state law -- it depends a great deal on the circumstances. Federal law typically only comes into play when there is federal jurisdiction, as in a wiretapping case that crosses state lines. Usually wiretapping within a state would fall under that state's laws -- at least that's how it's been explained to me.