If you really want to educate them about computers, and not just train them, get them started with 8-bit computers. Apple II, Commodore 64, doesn't really matter. They should learn how these things work at the bare metal.
The real point is that there are those who think if it isn't mentioned in the constitution it isn't allowed
If it's not in the constitution it *isn't* allowed. That is, if a power is not specifically granted to the federal government by the constitution, it does not (legitimately) have that power.
Odd thing is the constitution doesn't say anything about cars at all - or airports, or television, or intarwebs...
Also remember where it says "all men" it meant not women and not blacks.
So which parts of the constitution do you find is "out of date"? Is it that it protects the rights of citizens and requires a warrant for you to be searched according to it? Or is it that you don't like freedom of speech? Or is it that you don't believe we should have the right to legally bear arms to defend ourselves against criminals or, should it become a form of tyranny, the government? Or is it that you don't believe in the right to a trial by jury?
Most of those things are in fact out of date. That is, they don't describe our current government in the slightest.
I think I made my case that MCS was questionable at least. Of course, it's impossible to prove that MCS does not exist. You cannot prove a negative. However, it's not always the case that absence of evidence isn't evidence of absence. The fact that 20 out of 20 participants in this study were hypochondriacs is pretty suggestive. Either MCS does not exist, or nearly 100% of MCS sufferers are misdiagnosed.
Poison ivy and peanut allergies do exist, of course. They don't have much to do with multiple chemical sensitivity though. If you did a double blind study with these substances, I guarantee you they'd be able to distinguish placebo. MCS sufferers cannot. What's the difference? One is real, the other is not.
You have a lot of good points, I take issue with this one though:
Being a decent human being, he'd have the same drive to handle a situation competently when people's lives are on the line whether his one is one of them or not.
I don't think it has anything with being decent or not, just being a human being. You can know, in the abstract, that blips on a screen are human lives but that doesn't mean it's going to register on as deep a level as when you're right there with them. Similarly, it's a lot easier for a soldier to pull a trigger on a remote drone than it is to shoot them in person. I don't think that makes them scumbags, I think that makes them humans.
Does this run on anything besides official Amigas? Does it run on anything fast enough to make Firefox worthwhile? If so, does it still support all the original Amiga software?
Maintenance IS ignored whenever possible. I won't get on any aircraft, piloted or not. Not because of maintenance concerns, but because of how the airline industry treats its customers.
So, do you think Sully would have pulled off a perfect water landing if he had been miles away from the cockpit? If the pilot's life isn't at risk, I just don't think he's going to have the same drive to handle an emergency. He's not going to have all the visual, auditory, and tactile, information a human in the pilot's seat is going to have either. Sometimes you need the reflexes of a well trained human being whose life is on the line.
In severe cases exposure to fragrance can lead to coma and even death.
I'd be interested in some good references for that assertion. A search of PubMed for "fragrance" (also tried "perfume" and "scent") and "coma" yielded nothing of the sort. Searching for "Multiple Chemical Sensitivity MCS" doesn't bring up any useful case studies either. It did however bring up this study(my emphasis):
INTRODUCTION: Multiple Chemical Sensitivity (MCS) is an acquired disorder with recurrent symptoms referable to multiple organ systems. No widely accepted test of physiologic function correlates with symptoms and it has not been recognized as a distinct entity by the scientific community. Few double-blind placebo-controlled studies have been done. The objectives of this study were to test two hypotheses: that patients with MCS can distinguish reliably between solvents and placebo, and that there are significant differences in objective biological and neuropsychological parameters between solvent and placebo exposures. METHODS: Twenty patients with MCS and 17 controls underwent six exposure sessions (solvent mixture and clean air in random order, double-blind) in a challenge chamber. Positive reactions were defined as subjective perception of being exposed to solvents, blood pressure or heart rate change of > or = 10%, rash or clinical signs of hypoxia, or symptom severity rise after exposure. RESULTS: No differences between the groups with regard to sensitivity, specificity, and accuracy were found. Cognitive performance was not influenced by solvent exposure, and did not differ between the groups. There was no difference between the groups in serum cortisol levels measured before and after exposures. CONCLUSION: The hypotheses were not confirmed.
As far as modern science can tell us, those with MCS cannot distinguish between solvents and placebo AND there are no significant differences in objective biological and neuropsychological parameters between solvent and placebo exposures.
What's wrong with the search? I enter a search term and I get a reverse chronological list of every posting that contains my search term, and nothing else. Google can't even guarantee me that my search terms (even if quoted and prepended with a '+') are going to be present in the results it returns (or even the copy in their cache?!).
Some people don't like any scents at all. What's wrong with smelling the way evolution intended us to smell? It didn't hurt our ancestors ability to attract mates. I know I like freshly washed natural female scent more than anything they could splash on. The important thing is just to be clean, and let nature do it's work from there.
Chemical sensitivity is psychosomatic. People who get sick at the smell of meat should grow up and get over it. Around here, the smell of cow and pig (and I'm not talking BBQ) is a common occurance. If we can get over the smell of pig shit wafting from nearby farms, you can handle a little eau de beouf.
As much as I love bacon, the smell of good, slowly smoked BBQ beats it every time. There's nothing like stopping at a shack on the side of some southern highway on a cool 90F afternoon in early summer for some ribs that have been smoked all day long. A glass of lemonade to drench the heat from the dry rub and a wedge of corn bread, and you have the finest meal imaginable.
At 15 miles x 3 miles x 600ft that's 21,314,566,152 cubic meters. At.5ppm (absolute minimum, from TFA), that's 10,657 cubic meters of pure oil. Google tells me that 10657 cubic meters converts to 67,030 barrels. This thing has been going on for 49 days now, so we're talking about at least 1367 barrels of oil per day in this plume alone.
Slashdot Mirror
You can already get that for the Gamecube which will run on the Wii.
If you really want to educate them about computers, and not just train them, get them started with 8-bit computers. Apple II, Commodore 64, doesn't really matter. They should learn how these things work at the bare metal.
The real point is that there are those who think if it isn't mentioned in the constitution it isn't allowed
If it's not in the constitution it *isn't* allowed. That is, if a power is not specifically granted to the federal government by the constitution, it does not (legitimately) have that power.
Odd thing is the constitution doesn't say anything about cars at all - or airports, or television, or intarwebs...
Also remember where it says "all men" it meant not women and not blacks.
That's what the amendment process is for.
So which parts of the constitution do you find is "out of date"? Is it that it protects the rights of citizens and requires a warrant for you to be searched according to it? Or is it that you don't like freedom of speech? Or is it that you don't believe we should have the right to legally bear arms to defend ourselves against criminals or, should it become a form of tyranny, the government? Or is it that you don't believe in the right to a trial by jury?
Most of those things are in fact out of date. That is, they don't describe our current government in the slightest.
If it was written today, it would be a lot shorter.
civil liberties model of the US
What civil liberties?
A system like this wouldn't be so bad IF governments could be trusted
But they can't. Ever. So why bring it up? Any law that can be abused WILL be abused. That must be considered before passing any law.
I think at the end of the day, whether it could be considered cracking or not depends on the intent of the owners of the site.
Do you really want to live in a world where the legality of your actions depends on the goodwill of a company such as AT&T?
Try Yakuake and surfraw sometime. Set it up so you launch firefox with -new-tab and Alice is your aunt.
What rule? What a custom agent says is the rule. If you question it, or even hesitate, you earn a beat down and a felony conviction.
we start going on a grey area and the 'net turns into a unsafe place where you can be illegal just by clicking a link.
We're already there.
If you go to their website, you'll find that behind Goatse Security is weev, well known troll. Slashdotters might know him as head of the GNAA.
I think I made my case that MCS was questionable at least. Of course, it's impossible to prove that MCS does not exist. You cannot prove a negative. However, it's not always the case that absence of evidence isn't evidence of absence. The fact that 20 out of 20 participants in this study were hypochondriacs is pretty suggestive. Either MCS does not exist, or nearly 100% of MCS sufferers are misdiagnosed.
Poison ivy and peanut allergies do exist, of course. They don't have much to do with multiple chemical sensitivity though. If you did a double blind study with these substances, I guarantee you they'd be able to distinguish placebo. MCS sufferers cannot. What's the difference? One is real, the other is not.
You have a lot of good points, I take issue with this one though:
Being a decent human being, he'd have the same drive to handle a situation competently when people's lives are on the line whether his one is one of them or not.
I don't think it has anything with being decent or not, just being a human being. You can know, in the abstract, that blips on a screen are human lives but that doesn't mean it's going to register on as deep a level as when you're right there with them. Similarly, it's a lot easier for a soldier to pull a trigger on a remote drone than it is to shoot them in person. I don't think that makes them scumbags, I think that makes them humans.
Honestly I didn't even know there were PPC Amigas. I'm guessing they won't run 68k Amiga software then.
Does this run on anything besides official Amigas? Does it run on anything fast enough to make Firefox worthwhile? If so, does it still support all the original Amiga software?
Maintenance IS ignored whenever possible. I won't get on any aircraft, piloted or not. Not because of maintenance concerns, but because of how the airline industry treats its customers.
So, do you think Sully would have pulled off a perfect water landing if he had been miles away from the cockpit? If the pilot's life isn't at risk, I just don't think he's going to have the same drive to handle an emergency. He's not going to have all the visual, auditory, and tactile, information a human in the pilot's seat is going to have either. Sometimes you need the reflexes of a well trained human being whose life is on the line.
In severe cases exposure to fragrance can lead to coma and even death.
I'd be interested in some good references for that assertion. A search of PubMed for "fragrance" (also tried "perfume" and "scent") and "coma" yielded nothing of the sort. Searching for "Multiple Chemical Sensitivity MCS" doesn't bring up any useful case studies either. It did however bring up this study(my emphasis):
As far as modern science can tell us, those with MCS cannot distinguish between solvents and placebo AND there are no significant differences in objective biological and neuropsychological parameters between solvent and placebo exposures.
What's wrong with the search? I enter a search term and I get a reverse chronological list of every posting that contains my search term, and nothing else. Google can't even guarantee me that my search terms (even if quoted and prepended with a '+') are going to be present in the results it returns (or even the copy in their cache?!).
Some people don't like any scents at all. What's wrong with smelling the way evolution intended us to smell? It didn't hurt our ancestors ability to attract mates. I know I like freshly washed natural female scent more than anything they could splash on. The important thing is just to be clean, and let nature do it's work from there.
Chemical sensitivity is psychosomatic. People who get sick at the smell of meat should grow up and get over it. Around here, the smell of cow and pig (and I'm not talking BBQ) is a common occurance. If we can get over the smell of pig shit wafting from nearby farms, you can handle a little eau de beouf.
As much as I love bacon, the smell of good, slowly smoked BBQ beats it every time. There's nothing like stopping at a shack on the side of some southern highway on a cool 90F afternoon in early summer for some ribs that have been smoked all day long. A glass of lemonade to drench the heat from the dry rub and a wedge of corn bread, and you have the finest meal imaginable.
At 15 miles x 3 miles x 600ft that's 21,314,566,152 cubic meters. At .5ppm (absolute minimum, from TFA), that's 10,657 cubic meters of pure oil. Google tells me that 10657 cubic meters converts to 67,030 barrels. This thing has been going on for 49 days now, so we're talking about at least 1367 barrels of oil per day in this plume alone.
I'm just glad it's UFEI and not UFIA.