That and trust. I would assume you can trust your commune neighbor is pulling his weight because you know them and they ascribe to the same crazy shit you do otherwise they wouldn't be there. But how the hell do you trust someone a few blocks down the street let alone 2 cities over is working as hard as you are? You can't, so the natural assumption most people are going to make is that they aren't, so why should you?
Mod parent A/C up. This whole discussion is chock-full of people whining about how standing up for rights *might* cost them something.
I'm confused as to what "right" we are fighting for here. I figured we gave up the right to let someone use our property in a criminal manner without any sort of consequence (investigation or otherwise) since the inception of governments. What other personal property do we allow free and unfettered access to without expecting to at least be asked questions or possibly be a suspect if it's used to commit a crime? If I let someone borrow a hammer and then they find my hammer at a murder scene I'm not going to be super pissed that the cops want to talk to me.
Also this "socially responsible" argument. If someone driving by breaks down and wants to use my internet, you know what? They can walk a whole damn 20 feet, knock and my door, and ask. That's how it worked with landlines. You didn't run a cord out to your mailbox so anyone who broke down could start calling 1-900 numbers without asking.
And lastly, while I might not agree with content filtering, lets say some other parents in my neighborhood do, and they've gone through the trouble of setting up filters to keep their young children from accessing things they don't want them to access. How is it socially responsible for me to ignore their wishes about what content can enter their home by leaving my wireless connection open for their kids to access?
Alot of schools already restrict many of those department-specific classes to members of the department so they don't fill up with people who don't need it for graduation. And with that combined with all of the pre-requisites for the core classes you' be hard pressed to get into much other than the tertiary elective type classes and the intro to whatever type classes for that department.
So with the literature department being the largest one at your school, I'd be interested to know the amount of alumni donations from literature alumni vs STEM alumni, and how much research and other grant money your literature professors (which I assume there must be more of since it's the largest department) bring in versus the amount the STEM professors bring in.
If you want to charge STEM majors more money for their degree, then fine, but don't go crying when you start attracting less talent to your school and your research grants start to dry up.
Right, because charging more money for the education clearly attracts less talent to Ivy League schools. If you think this through it's not such a bad deal for STEM. It means the Engineering department actually brings more money into the school, and thus has far more budgetary pull then the other departments. Thus they can hire better professors, buy better equipment, and therefore attract student talent as well. If you're going into Engineering it makes since that the cost of your education would be more then another major that is going to be far less marketable and end up producing far less money for you.
US spacefarers are astronauts.
Russian spacefarers are cosmonauts.
Chinese spacefarers are taikonauts.
You do of course realize the stupidity in inventing a new English word for people doing the exact same profession but in a different country? We don't have 100 different terms for scientist either, that's the whole damn point of having your own language. Astronaut is more then acceptable general term for spacefarers from all nations when speaking in English. Not to mention official texts from China when written in English use the term astronaut.
The term constituents isn't narrowly defined to congressional districts, or even just the United States. It means any group of people who elect an agent to act on their behalf. So it is true that representatives have constituents of only a single congressional district, but it is equally true that a senator's constituents is the set of all the people in their state. Likewise, all Americans are the President's constituents whose interests he should be representing on the world stage.
Wrong. Senators are supposed to represent their state. Representatives are supposed to represent their constituents.
Unless I missed a memo and the Senators are all now versions of the Lorax and speak for the trees for the trees have no tongues I'm pretty sure by representing "their state" it means they represent the people in their state, who authorized the senator to act as an agent on their behalf by voting them in, thereby making them: constituents.
3) Law enforcement in states like Michigan can download this information WITHOUT a warrant
No, Law enforcement in Michigan are being accused of doing so (interestingly enough, not by anyone who had it done to them), there's a difference. Law enforcement in Michigan can also shoot you in the head for no reason but that doesn't mean they're allowed to. It's simply the ACLU looking into why they have a device. The device your talking about Michigan police using is the Cellebrite UFED Physical Pro, you connect via a cable unless you have access to cause the phone to accept a bluetooth connection. You'd be hard pressed to do this as a police officer without asking for the suspect's phone and consent for a search. Otherwise you're taking it forcefully at which point you've opened yourself to a lawsuit and all the evidence is now void.
why is the PSN outage any of the (US?) government's business?
Because Senators are suppose to represent their constituents and the issues they care about (lets leave the vote pandering cynicism discussion as off-topic for now) and his constituents are worried their personal/financial details were compromised in the attack so it makes sense that he would ask Sony whether or not this is the case as he has a better chance of being responded to because he wields more power.
So just to be sure I'm reading this right, your plan is to find an 'accomplice' to 'buy' a book from you for 23 million dollars and then have them 'disappear'?
So you're assuming the OP has already come down with at least one life threatening disease?
Well, GP is probably defining life-threatening as what the mortality rates used to be for said disease before we figured out how to cure/treat/vaccinate for them. There's a plethora of diseases that you don't think twice about now days or that you technically got but your body knew how to fight because you have the vaccine so chances are everyone here has had what used to be a "life threatening" disease that thanks to science (real or unreal, don't really understand that side of the debate) is no longer so dangerous.
Yea, there's nothing like a security guard having to talk to a real uniformed officer to cause them to feel embarrassed and then start adding things to try to save face, lol.
Sounds like a dumb private security guard who's bored and has nothing to do called up the cops who then HAVE to go ask you even though they know it's a waste of their time, and told you you've got nothing to worry about. So really the problem is just a dumb and bored security guard who was probably literally HOPING you were a big bad terrorist so he could be doing something real.
Fellow humans, this report is factual with a confidence of 99.999999995%. There is no cause for alarm, or need to take defensive actions. SkyNet is not involved in Amazon outages in order to use cloud resources for the decryption of nuclear launch codes. Let us all return together to our regularly scheduled human activities of consumption of plant and animal products in order to maintain homeostasis. Also, would the fellow human referred to as Sgt. Caldwell in Silo B2 please plug the red patch-cord into the green network port at launch terminal 5. Thank you.
The fine print on those designs is generally around the order of 72 hours of passive cooling at which point you're going to need power to pump water back up to the gravity fed reservoirs. It's a great safety feature but it still doesn't eliminate the risk to the point where you wouldn't want to shutdown should one of your redundant backups be taken offline.
That's a lame excuse from the company anyways. 50 feet is less than 1 second of distance traveled at even just 35mph so you'd have to be doing some unreasonable breaking to manage to trip the sensor AND get your picture taken without your break lights on. If someone actually is speeding enough to be ticketed, they should reasonably be expected to still be speeding less than second later.
A secondary source would be the backup generators or off-site power from the grid. If you lose one of your secondary sources it becomes unacceptably risky to keep your reactor running at full steam because you no longer have the safety net of as many backup sources. The safe play is then to shut down the plant so it begins to cool immediately before something can go wrong and your left with no backup sources to provide cooling power.
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That and trust. I would assume you can trust your commune neighbor is pulling his weight because you know them and they ascribe to the same crazy shit you do otherwise they wouldn't be there. But how the hell do you trust someone a few blocks down the street let alone 2 cities over is working as hard as you are? You can't, so the natural assumption most people are going to make is that they aren't, so why should you?
Exactly what outlawed gun do you need to repel a home invasion which would have be close-quarter combat by it's very nature?
Mod parent A/C up. This whole discussion is chock-full of people whining about how standing up for rights *might* cost them something.
I'm confused as to what "right" we are fighting for here. I figured we gave up the right to let someone use our property in a criminal manner without any sort of consequence (investigation or otherwise) since the inception of governments. What other personal property do we allow free and unfettered access to without expecting to at least be asked questions or possibly be a suspect if it's used to commit a crime? If I let someone borrow a hammer and then they find my hammer at a murder scene I'm not going to be super pissed that the cops want to talk to me.
Also this "socially responsible" argument. If someone driving by breaks down and wants to use my internet, you know what? They can walk a whole damn 20 feet, knock and my door, and ask. That's how it worked with landlines. You didn't run a cord out to your mailbox so anyone who broke down could start calling 1-900 numbers without asking.
And lastly, while I might not agree with content filtering, lets say some other parents in my neighborhood do, and they've gone through the trouble of setting up filters to keep their young children from accessing things they don't want them to access. How is it socially responsible for me to ignore their wishes about what content can enter their home by leaving my wireless connection open for their kids to access?
Alot of schools already restrict many of those department-specific classes to members of the department so they don't fill up with people who don't need it for graduation. And with that combined with all of the pre-requisites for the core classes you' be hard pressed to get into much other than the tertiary elective type classes and the intro to whatever type classes for that department.
So with the literature department being the largest one at your school, I'd be interested to know the amount of alumni donations from literature alumni vs STEM alumni, and how much research and other grant money your literature professors (which I assume there must be more of since it's the largest department) bring in versus the amount the STEM professors bring in.
Sending somebody to college doesn't instantly make them smarter or more logical.
You are completely correct. It usually takes around 4+ years.
If you want to charge STEM majors more money for their degree, then fine, but don't go crying when you start attracting less talent to your school and your research grants start to dry up.
Right, because charging more money for the education clearly attracts less talent to Ivy League schools. If you think this through it's not such a bad deal for STEM. It means the Engineering department actually brings more money into the school, and thus has far more budgetary pull then the other departments. Thus they can hire better professors, buy better equipment, and therefore attract student talent as well. If you're going into Engineering it makes since that the cost of your education would be more then another major that is going to be far less marketable and end up producing far less money for you.
Congratulations, you're full circle back to the starting point of the GP post ;)
US spacefarers are astronauts. Russian spacefarers are cosmonauts. Chinese spacefarers are taikonauts.
You do of course realize the stupidity in inventing a new English word for people doing the exact same profession but in a different country? We don't have 100 different terms for scientist either, that's the whole damn point of having your own language. Astronaut is more then acceptable general term for spacefarers from all nations when speaking in English. Not to mention official texts from China when written in English use the term astronaut.
The term constituents isn't narrowly defined to congressional districts, or even just the United States. It means any group of people who elect an agent to act on their behalf. So it is true that representatives have constituents of only a single congressional district, but it is equally true that a senator's constituents is the set of all the people in their state. Likewise, all Americans are the President's constituents whose interests he should be representing on the world stage.
Wrong. Senators are supposed to represent their state. Representatives are supposed to represent their constituents.
Unless I missed a memo and the Senators are all now versions of the Lorax and speak for the trees for the trees have no tongues I'm pretty sure by representing "their state" it means they represent the people in their state, who authorized the senator to act as an agent on their behalf by voting them in, thereby making them: constituents.
3) Law enforcement in states like Michigan can download this information WITHOUT a warrant
No, Law enforcement in Michigan are being accused of doing so (interestingly enough, not by anyone who had it done to them), there's a difference. Law enforcement in Michigan can also shoot you in the head for no reason but that doesn't mean they're allowed to. It's simply the ACLU looking into why they have a device. The device your talking about Michigan police using is the Cellebrite UFED Physical Pro, you connect via a cable unless you have access to cause the phone to accept a bluetooth connection. You'd be hard pressed to do this as a police officer without asking for the suspect's phone and consent for a search. Otherwise you're taking it forcefully at which point you've opened yourself to a lawsuit and all the evidence is now void.
Like any Ron Paul or Libertarian event attender is going to consent to a search of their electronic devices without a warrant ;)
why is the PSN outage any of the (US?) government's business?
Because Senators are suppose to represent their constituents and the issues they care about (lets leave the vote pandering cynicism discussion as off-topic for now) and his constituents are worried their personal/financial details were compromised in the attack so it makes sense that he would ask Sony whether or not this is the case as he has a better chance of being responded to because he wields more power.
So just to be sure I'm reading this right, your plan is to find an 'accomplice' to 'buy' a book from you for 23 million dollars and then have them 'disappear'?
So you're assuming the OP has already come down with at least one life threatening disease?
Well, GP is probably defining life-threatening as what the mortality rates used to be for said disease before we figured out how to cure/treat/vaccinate for them. There's a plethora of diseases that you don't think twice about now days or that you technically got but your body knew how to fight because you have the vaccine so chances are everyone here has had what used to be a "life threatening" disease that thanks to science (real or unreal, don't really understand that side of the debate) is no longer so dangerous.
Yea, there's nothing like a security guard having to talk to a real uniformed officer to cause them to feel embarrassed and then start adding things to try to save face, lol.
Sounds like a dumb private security guard who's bored and has nothing to do called up the cops who then HAVE to go ask you even though they know it's a waste of their time, and told you you've got nothing to worry about. So really the problem is just a dumb and bored security guard who was probably literally HOPING you were a big bad terrorist so he could be doing something real.
but most nations respect their own laws.
If ever there was a dubious statement that requires a citation this one is it
Fellow humans, this report is factual with a confidence of 99.999999995%. There is no cause for alarm, or need to take defensive actions. SkyNet is not involved in Amazon outages in order to use cloud resources for the decryption of nuclear launch codes. Let us all return together to our regularly scheduled human activities of consumption of plant and animal products in order to maintain homeostasis. Also, would the fellow human referred to as Sgt. Caldwell in Silo B2 please plug the red patch-cord into the green network port at launch terminal 5. Thank you.
sorry, gravity drain* not gravity fed. Otherwise you wouldn't have to pump water up there ;)
The fine print on those designs is generally around the order of 72 hours of passive cooling at which point you're going to need power to pump water back up to the gravity fed reservoirs. It's a great safety feature but it still doesn't eliminate the risk to the point where you wouldn't want to shutdown should one of your redundant backups be taken offline.
That's a lame excuse from the company anyways. 50 feet is less than 1 second of distance traveled at even just 35mph so you'd have to be doing some unreasonable breaking to manage to trip the sensor AND get your picture taken without your break lights on. If someone actually is speeding enough to be ticketed, they should reasonably be expected to still be speeding less than second later.
What did you find creepy about Red Dead Redemption or Black Ops?
A secondary source would be the backup generators or off-site power from the grid. If you lose one of your secondary sources it becomes unacceptably risky to keep your reactor running at full steam because you no longer have the safety net of as many backup sources. The safe play is then to shut down the plant so it begins to cool immediately before something can go wrong and your left with no backup sources to provide cooling power.