The original Macintosh was rather deliberately designed to be a sealed unit, with no user-upgradable/replaceable components inside.
What exactly were you going to upgrade, back then? That was well before the era of performance above-board video cards, multiple CPU choices, heat management, etc. Strangely, one of my earliest memories of computing was helping my dad add more RAM to one of the early Macs, probably the SE/30. It was far from a sealed unit...
Palm Springs Airport, Las Vegas Airport, Edwards AFB (where they landed the freakin' space shuttle). All places that regularly see temps in excess of 100 degrees. If global warming was going to cause the ground to swallow planes whole, don't you think we'd have seen it happen in these places first?
Not all launches are from Florida. We have a space facility here in California too, two if you counted Edwards AFB for the shuttle landings. Check out the proximity of the town of Lompoc to the Vandenberg launch complex. Nobody expected parts of a space shuttle to come raining down over several states. If something that epic occurred, would you be willing to be the farm that something won't *ever* go that wrong during a rocket launch?
I always find it amusing when people not only steal images, they blatantly claim them as their own. That picture that's been floating around for years of the cat sleeping in a bunch of hangared clothes in a closet? I know him personally. He's a colossal asshole, and I have the scars to prove it. My friend posted that picture ages ago, and now there's at least half a dozen people that we've found who claim that it's THEIR cat. Go ahead, take him, but don't be an idiot posting someone else's pictures claiming them to be your own.
There may soon be a lot of disappointed investors who naively assumed FB stock would be going the same route as GOOG just because it's a "trendy company" rather than actually looking at the financials...
Those aren't investors, those are gamblers. A fool and his money...
Yes. The department may be inclined to give a slap on the wrist, but now these guys are damaged goods. Any defense lawyer worth their salt will bring the falsification issue to light, and now everything else the officer says will be tainted with doubt. If they've been caught lying about something as mundane as equipment calibration, what else are they lying about? Their testimony is no longer golden, and they've become a liability to the prosecutor's case.
I'm not sure of the details, as it's been several years now, but all I know is several officers 'subdued' him while the blood was taken. It may have been a nurse-type individual doing the actual sticking, but the fact that he was treated like a farm animal is disturbing. Yes he was intoxicated, but he was in legitimate mental distress at the sight of the needle, and was not treated with any sort of respect or dignity. Just thrown to the ground like a sack of potatoes, crushed under the weight of several people, and then stabbed in the arm.
Exactly. And this is the type of thing that completely destroys an officer's career. Once you've been caught lying, everything else you've stated is suspect, and you're no longer a reliable witness. Why would these meatheads risk their jobs by falsifying records? being lazy and not doing it is one thing, actively lying about it ON PAPER is full retard.
Just be advised that here in CA, not only is refusing a test illegal, it buys you absolutely nothing. A relative of mine was picked up for DUI and taken to the station. He has an intense fear of needles, and freaked out when they tried to stick him. He was slammed to the floor and pinned down by officers while they forcibly drew blood. He had a wicked bruise on his arm to show for it, too.
Remember that scene in Dumb & Dumber.. "wanna hear the most annoying sound in the world?". Sit within earshot of the offending cell phone gabber, and fire away until they're no longer able to continue their call. Sure, there's going to be some collateral damage, but still...
Why exactly are they developing something like this? For what practical use is a quadrapedal robot that can outrun a human? Why don't they just give it big metal teeth an an unquenchable thirst for blood?
A drunk driver running over a child or colliding head on with a van full of nuns makes the news. The thousands upon thousands of addicts who slowly and quietly poison themselves into oblivion go unheard of. Do not base your view of the damage caused by substance abuse solely upon the number of headlines you see. Also, it can be reasonably argued that 'recreational drinkers' that get into fights or drive drunk are alcoholics. If you drink to the point where it has negative consequences, how is that not abuse? Not all alcoholics are the lounging around in their robes at home drinking vodka from the bottle kind.
I see, looks like there was a bit of a misunderstanding there. However, it's part of the nature of mental illness that sometimes convinces the sufferer to stop treatment. Be it through the feeling of 'I'm OK now, so I'm just going to stop taking my meds", as is often the case with depression, cases of the medical side effects being 'worse' than the sickness, or the terrible withdrawal symptoms that people go through when they stop using. I honestly believe there are very few people out there who want to be addicted to anything, and falling off the wagon or stopping treatment is in no way them accepting their fate with open arms. Some people are just stronger than others when it comes to enduring cravings, pain, shame, or what have you. Some of them are better at asking for help than others, while some completely internalize it.
I somewhat disagree with your statement that it's up to the individual to decide what to do about it. These people are being controlled by their addiction, and their thought process is different than yours or mine. It's not like they're making rational decisions about how to proceed with their cancer treatment. They're feeding a hunger just like we have for food. Can you imagine just not eating for the rest of your life, even if it magically made you healthier? Even if you went a year.. one day you may see a plate of nachos and just completely give in and then you're back to square one. These are the times when addicts need support the most. Not when they're well on the road to recovery, but when they're at their lowest and most ill. Please be there for them at all times, if you know someone like this. You may think 'god, what an asshole. If he won't help himself, why should I?' It's because he can't. But hopefully you can.
Which is it? Wealthy people are more likely to become dicks, or the kind of people who would openly behave this poorly tend to become wealthy? I'm curious as to whether or not having large amounts of money corrupts an otherwise mild-mannered person, or if the personality type/living environment/etc that leads to the accumulation of wealth also tends to be those that would already cause someone act like a douche, regardless of financial status.
Uh, how can you honestly think that addiction is anything but a disease? Addiction to alcohol, drugs, food, gambling.. it's not a matter of a weak will. it's fueled by something much deeper. It's a disease of the mind, just like depression or schizophrenia, but it manifests itself in a way that's much easier for society to blame on the sufferer than something like cancer or the chicken pox. You can't blame depressed people for being sad or schizos for hearing voices and having delusions, so how can you say with a straight face that alcoholics aren't victims when they're completely unable to crawl out of the bottle? Have you ever watched an alcoholic die? It's terrible. They know they're going to die, they probably don't want to die, but they are unable to stop drinking. If they were able to just give it up and walk away from the drink, don't you think most of them would? It's a condition that should be understood and supported through, not judged, scorned and abandoned to their fate.
Obviously the poster has not lived in a family with alcoholics. I've lost two aunts in the past decade to alcoholism. It destroyed their minds and bodies, and effectively killed them years before they actually died. It's a terrible disease, and exacts an immense toll on the user. That being said, their drug of choice did not injure or kill anybody else. How can it be said that it affects others more than themselves? For that to be statistically possible, there would have to be more single injury or fatality accidents involving the injury/death of the sober party than there are deaths of addicts by non-auto related causes.
Call me a cynic, but why did this woman not actively support regaining our rights and dignity BEFORE she became a victim of the TSA? It seems a little self serving for her to suddenly pick up that flag only after her own personal traumatic experience. As a fellow human, I can sympathize with what she's gone through, but as a politician it looks less than righteous.
This country is going to end up in civil war again.
Probably not. I doubt one region of the country is so enamored with the federal government that it would be willing to take up arms and battle the rest of the nation to defend it. The first civil war was fought over states rights, among other things, and there was a pretty clear line between the industrial north and the agricultural south. Our present day issues are not so much a battle of conflicting ideologies and regional economies, but the increasing oppressiveness and financial abuse of the common man by the ruling elite. Yes, that old chestnut. So this is less likely to turn into another Civil War (or War Between the States, if you will), and more something resembling the American Revolution, if anything.
So provide a number that is valid, but goes nowhere. Everyone you know chips in the for the cost of a single POTS line, which is minimal, and a phone is never attached to it. Nobody has to hear it ring, there is no answering machine, and it's a legal, legit number. As far as anyone who calls it is concerned, you're just never home.
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The original Macintosh was rather deliberately designed to be a sealed unit, with no user-upgradable/replaceable components inside.
What exactly were you going to upgrade, back then? That was well before the era of performance above-board video cards, multiple CPU choices, heat management, etc. Strangely, one of my earliest memories of computing was helping my dad add more RAM to one of the early Macs, probably the SE/30. It was far from a sealed unit...
About $40 on Amazon gets you an LTO5 cartridge that would hold the entire case's data. This whole thing doesn't pass the sniff test.
Palm Springs Airport, Las Vegas Airport, Edwards AFB (where they landed the freakin' space shuttle). All places that regularly see temps in excess of 100 degrees. If global warming was going to cause the ground to swallow planes whole, don't you think we'd have seen it happen in these places first?
Not all launches are from Florida. We have a space facility here in California too, two if you counted Edwards AFB for the shuttle landings. Check out the proximity of the town of Lompoc to the Vandenberg launch complex. Nobody expected parts of a space shuttle to come raining down over several states. If something that epic occurred, would you be willing to be the farm that something won't *ever* go that wrong during a rocket launch?
We see how well warning labels worked with smoking.
I always find it amusing when people not only steal images, they blatantly claim them as their own. That picture that's been floating around for years of the cat sleeping in a bunch of hangared clothes in a closet? I know him personally. He's a colossal asshole, and I have the scars to prove it. My friend posted that picture ages ago, and now there's at least half a dozen people that we've found who claim that it's THEIR cat. Go ahead, take him, but don't be an idiot posting someone else's pictures claiming them to be your own.
The feds hack a website, and they issue a triumphant press release. Anonymous does it, and they release the hounds.
There may soon be a lot of disappointed investors who naively assumed FB stock would be going the same route as GOOG just because it's a "trendy company" rather than actually looking at the financials...
Those aren't investors, those are gamblers. A fool and his money...
Los Angeles used to have another experimental reactor, until it melted down, fell over, then sank into the swamp: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Santa_Susana_Field_Laboratory#Sodium_reactor_experiment
Yes. The department may be inclined to give a slap on the wrist, but now these guys are damaged goods. Any defense lawyer worth their salt will bring the falsification issue to light, and now everything else the officer says will be tainted with doubt. If they've been caught lying about something as mundane as equipment calibration, what else are they lying about? Their testimony is no longer golden, and they've become a liability to the prosecutor's case.
I'm not sure of the details, as it's been several years now, but all I know is several officers 'subdued' him while the blood was taken. It may have been a nurse-type individual doing the actual sticking, but the fact that he was treated like a farm animal is disturbing. Yes he was intoxicated, but he was in legitimate mental distress at the sight of the needle, and was not treated with any sort of respect or dignity. Just thrown to the ground like a sack of potatoes, crushed under the weight of several people, and then stabbed in the arm.
Exactly. And this is the type of thing that completely destroys an officer's career. Once you've been caught lying, everything else you've stated is suspect, and you're no longer a reliable witness. Why would these meatheads risk their jobs by falsifying records? being lazy and not doing it is one thing, actively lying about it ON PAPER is full retard.
Just be advised that here in CA, not only is refusing a test illegal, it buys you absolutely nothing. A relative of mine was picked up for DUI and taken to the station. He has an intense fear of needles, and freaked out when they tried to stick him. He was slammed to the floor and pinned down by officers while they forcibly drew blood. He had a wicked bruise on his arm to show for it, too.
Remember that scene in Dumb & Dumber.. "wanna hear the most annoying sound in the world?". Sit within earshot of the offending cell phone gabber, and fire away until they're no longer able to continue their call. Sure, there's going to be some collateral damage, but still...
Why exactly are they developing something like this? For what practical use is a quadrapedal robot that can outrun a human? Why don't they just give it big metal teeth an an unquenchable thirst for blood?
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A drunk driver running over a child or colliding head on with a van full of nuns makes the news. The thousands upon thousands of addicts who slowly and quietly poison themselves into oblivion go unheard of. Do not base your view of the damage caused by substance abuse solely upon the number of headlines you see. Also, it can be reasonably argued that 'recreational drinkers' that get into fights or drive drunk are alcoholics. If you drink to the point where it has negative consequences, how is that not abuse? Not all alcoholics are the lounging around in their robes at home drinking vodka from the bottle kind.
I see, looks like there was a bit of a misunderstanding there. However, it's part of the nature of mental illness that sometimes convinces the sufferer to stop treatment. Be it through the feeling of 'I'm OK now, so I'm just going to stop taking my meds", as is often the case with depression, cases of the medical side effects being 'worse' than the sickness, or the terrible withdrawal symptoms that people go through when they stop using. I honestly believe there are very few people out there who want to be addicted to anything, and falling off the wagon or stopping treatment is in no way them accepting their fate with open arms. Some people are just stronger than others when it comes to enduring cravings, pain, shame, or what have you. Some of them are better at asking for help than others, while some completely internalize it.
I somewhat disagree with your statement that it's up to the individual to decide what to do about it. These people are being controlled by their addiction, and their thought process is different than yours or mine. It's not like they're making rational decisions about how to proceed with their cancer treatment. They're feeding a hunger just like we have for food. Can you imagine just not eating for the rest of your life, even if it magically made you healthier? Even if you went a year.. one day you may see a plate of nachos and just completely give in and then you're back to square one. These are the times when addicts need support the most. Not when they're well on the road to recovery, but when they're at their lowest and most ill. Please be there for them at all times, if you know someone like this. You may think 'god, what an asshole. If he won't help himself, why should I?' It's because he can't. But hopefully you can.
Which is it? Wealthy people are more likely to become dicks, or the kind of people who would openly behave this poorly tend to become wealthy? I'm curious as to whether or not having large amounts of money corrupts an otherwise mild-mannered person, or if the personality type/living environment/etc that leads to the accumulation of wealth also tends to be those that would already cause someone act like a douche, regardless of financial status.
Uh, how can you honestly think that addiction is anything but a disease? Addiction to alcohol, drugs, food, gambling.. it's not a matter of a weak will. it's fueled by something much deeper. It's a disease of the mind, just like depression or schizophrenia, but it manifests itself in a way that's much easier for society to blame on the sufferer than something like cancer or the chicken pox. You can't blame depressed people for being sad or schizos for hearing voices and having delusions, so how can you say with a straight face that alcoholics aren't victims when they're completely unable to crawl out of the bottle? Have you ever watched an alcoholic die? It's terrible. They know they're going to die, they probably don't want to die, but they are unable to stop drinking. If they were able to just give it up and walk away from the drink, don't you think most of them would? It's a condition that should be understood and supported through, not judged, scorned and abandoned to their fate.
Obviously the poster has not lived in a family with alcoholics. I've lost two aunts in the past decade to alcoholism. It destroyed their minds and bodies, and effectively killed them years before they actually died. It's a terrible disease, and exacts an immense toll on the user. That being said, their drug of choice did not injure or kill anybody else. How can it be said that it affects others more than themselves? For that to be statistically possible, there would have to be more single injury or fatality accidents involving the injury/death of the sober party than there are deaths of addicts by non-auto related causes.
Call me a cynic, but why did this woman not actively support regaining our rights and dignity BEFORE she became a victim of the TSA? It seems a little self serving for her to suddenly pick up that flag only after her own personal traumatic experience. As a fellow human, I can sympathize with what she's gone through, but as a politician it looks less than righteous.
If a corporation is a 'person', then clearly there must be some way to remove the head or destroy the brain, right? Oh jesus, what have we done...
This country is going to end up in civil war again.
Probably not. I doubt one region of the country is so enamored with the federal government that it would be willing to take up arms and battle the rest of the nation to defend it. The first civil war was fought over states rights, among other things, and there was a pretty clear line between the industrial north and the agricultural south. Our present day issues are not so much a battle of conflicting ideologies and regional economies, but the increasing oppressiveness and financial abuse of the common man by the ruling elite. Yes, that old chestnut. So this is less likely to turn into another Civil War (or War Between the States, if you will), and more something resembling the American Revolution, if anything.
So provide a number that is valid, but goes nowhere. Everyone you know chips in the for the cost of a single POTS line, which is minimal, and a phone is never attached to it. Nobody has to hear it ring, there is no answering machine, and it's a legal, legit number. As far as anyone who calls it is concerned, you're just never home.