I'm sorry, but would you just go limp and not defend yourself if some random person (the fry's managers don't wear uniforms where I live, and the whole point of my post was what if someone made a mistake) pulled you (or attempted to) through your car window? Or would you fight? If you did, would you use a fist? your keys? a bat? a knife? Anything you had within reach? I'm pretty sure you would use anything in reach because I don't think you could decide as to what you would use to defend yourself between the time it took for the guy to grab you and the time your ass hit the pavement.
Not sure of your ethical standards, but once someone is actually trying to hurt me or my family I'm going to defend myself with whatever I have handy unless they identify themselves as the police or something similar. If you don't feel that way, well, fine, I guess, but I think your post has more to do with "OMFG!!!1 t3h gunz!!" than an argument on whether someone should fight back with whatever they have handy if they are pulled out their car. *shrug* I guess.
Getting pulled out of a car is an extremely violent and aggressive action - it is inexcusable for a store employee (anyone, for that matter - except perhaps the police in the most extreme circumstances) to do this, likewise, the attacker should expect an extremely violent and aggressive response.
And if you believe that every situation that occurs between an armed person and someone else ends in a shooting, you're wrong. While armed, I've personally been robbed once (stupid drunk jock decided to steal a toner cartridge) and have had someone try to mug me. In both cases, I had a handgun either in my hand or in a pocket, but didn't even draw it in (in the first case, the handgun was in the trunk / boot) Sometimes letting a drunk take an $80 item or throwing a swift punch to the side of the head is all that is necessary to diffuse a situation. Amazingly, people carrying guns don't become mindless killers that will shoot people at the slightest provocation.
Oh, and although you may be under the impression that your police officers are unarmed - this doesn't necessarily mean they don't carry. Some NZ police carry in an armpit holster, some (usually higher ranking officers) carry multiple firearms in their trunks of their cars. Heck, NZ cops (airport, etc) _have_ to carry and some cop shot a guy for attacking people with a baseball bat a few years ago, but they carry concealed to make the public feel good.
In most places, sure, the speed limits are reasonable - but (and this is a big but) - there are places where the speed limits are set because the people along the street are whiny and complain to their friends in the local government about the noise. A well lit, well marked, recently paved, wide, straight, _divided_ street that is miles from any school or playground and also happens to be a major traffic route should not be marked 25 miles an hour. This is more of a problem in the better parts of town, less in the poor sections. There are a couple cases where a 25mph limit is reasonable because the streets are crap (Burnside north of 405 in Portland is one), but those are few and far between.
courageous manager who literally dragged a customer out of his car through the window
Your "courageous manager" is lucky to have survived. If someone drags me out of my car, they will get a few.380 or 9mm bullets fired at them, depending on what I'm carrying that day. It would be kind of stupid to get killed because you dragged the wrong guy out of a window.
The CBC had a pretty good documentary that aired in August-ish that took a look at the subway musicians in areas that don't have the classical music playing. You actually have to audition for spots and there are some excellent musicians who make some nice coin for playing (and from refferals from side gigs) I can't find a link (although it should still be available if you look through a couple documentary binary newsgroups if you have 14 day retention) but the ttc has information about it here.
He is considering introducing a much louder unit that can be switched on in emergencies with a panic button. It would be most useful when youths swarm into stores and begin stealing en masse, a phenomenon known in Britain as steaming. The idea would be to blast them with such an unacceptably loud, high noise Why doesn't he just wave a gun around or hire someone to break some legs?
--a noise inaudible to older shoppers--that they would immediately leave Wouldn't it be funny if the panic button broke all the windows in the store?
At least, it seems like it to me. Back in the days of dos, pascal and c programming in a text based ide, I used to run high pitched noises out through the pc speaker. I believe I specified something between 21,000 and 24,000 hz - although I'm fairly sure that the speaker wasn't exactly tuned (although it did go a bit higher (27,000-ish hz), although only a few of us were able to hear it - we had the computer randomly play these high pitched tones and the monitor would change color about 5 seconds after the tone started, so it was sort of a double blind test) Yeah, high school was tons of fun. Anyways... Even though the old folks might not be able to hear it consciously, it still affects them. People become moody, short tempered, and in general, quite bitchy. I honestly can't say that it is due to the effects of the sound - or the effects of interacting with people who are able to consciously hear it, but - to me, at least - it doesn't really matter, because chances are that if you have teens hanging around your business, they probably spend money there and you're going to have to interact with them.
And as for whether this bothers teens immensely, I call bullshit. Most of the older TVs out there put out a high pitched noise and it isn't like teens don't spend a ton of time sitting in front of one. Of course, old people enjoy buying crap like this, so it isn't to say there isn't a market.
Also, the sensitivity seems to go away after being exposed to the sounds of gunfire (anecdotal evidence based on my experiences, so take with a grain of salt) and other loud noises, so gangbangers and punkheads probably won't be affected;) And please, 75db? feh.
(feel free to use this as a perfect example of how to not write an argumentative essay btw)
Hit Ben's Bargins & Fat Wallet then go shopping at midnight EST. And then have fucking shitbag stores like Best Buy cancel your orders Tuesday morning. It would be nice if Best Buy decided whether they wanted to actually sell some fucking product before they advertised it and allowed people to place orders.
It is also nice how it takes several days for the refund to hit your card, isn't it? If someone was paranoid, they might think BB was holding the money for several days to earn interest off it. I'm sure BB gets a good enough rate with the credit card companies for this to be possible.
Bah, everyone is saying this is a star trek spoof - it also parodies B5 quite a bit too (and, IMHO, a bit better) If you haven't seen it, do. CGI is pretty damn good for a project with basically no budget. The subtitles are kind of bad, but in a funny kind of way.
Good. Public money is paying for your university links to be used for academic purposes, not sharing music and movies. If you want a Linux distro, ask your administrators to mirror the appropriate distro locally
Are you trying to get modded funny or are you stupid enough to believe that if you contact "your" admins, they will do something like that for you? If the latter, you need to be beaten with a clue stick a couple dozen times. And as for the whole "public money" bit, it would be a valid argument if a. students didn't pay tuition (they do, just in case you didn't know) or b. students weren't forced to pay a "technology fee" or "internet access fee" (especially when the fees exceed the cost of Internet access from a traditional provider)
This will backfire on Sony. I really hope it does - although I really doubt that it will be because the average joe is pissed (unless someone spins it the right way like "oh no, it downloads kiddie porn") people just care about whether the cd plays in their car stereo and cd player.
Just look at AOL and Dell. Their customer service and product support has sucked for the past few years, and now it has come to bite them in the ass. It will take a long time (several years at best) to change the momentum of how the public sees them.
Yet people buy their stuff - because they are just as bad as every other manufacturer out there.
Perhaps, but I'd guess that this cd would pass the tests and get the mark because it plays in everything except a windows pc w/autorun (and only then because their shitty software breaks your machine) That said, it is a damn sleazy thing to do - both in terms of screwing the people who buy the CD and in terms of the decision to purchase this (ultimately useless) DRM. Apparantly a lot of the higher ups in this DRM company also have high level positions in Sony. Would anyone here be surprised if any of the execs at the DRM company received bonuses around the time period that Sony chose their DRM?
If this is given enough public attention, perhaps shareholders may get pissed.
There are a couple other options available to you - there might be a community health center or some other doctor's office for people who can't afford a hospital visit. Very often nurse might be doing most of the work instead of a doctor in such a free clinic.
Crutches are sometimes available - free of charge or for a small deposit - at grocery stores - I know "save on foods" in Canada does. I believe Haagens does down in the USA although a brief look at your local craigslist might also get you a free pair of crutches and maybe even a roboboot (which is being used pretty often as an alternative to a cast, depending on which bone is broken)
Just get that fixed (and soon), because an improperly set foot will be a pain in the future (believe me, I know).
And Toilet and Douche was more than happy to give you the number of a local retailer who sold you the biometric door lock for 20x market value. Correct?
But maybe, just maybe, it will convince criminals who are facing life in prison to react "differently" (i.e. more violently) when the police arrest them. The vast majority of people who are arrested for crimes that will put them in prison for the rest of their lives (which will be shortened by AIDS and substandard medical care) go without too much of a fight, something which I find a bit surprising. Because of mandatory minimums, sentencing "guidelines", etc, there really isn't any possibility of leniency, so it seems illogical to cooperate.
There is a story about a couple guys in an army a while back (Kahn's?, I can't recall and google isn't playing nicely today). They were late one day and it just so happened that the punishment for being late was death. The punishment for mutiny was also death. It doesn't take a genius to figure out what they did...
If all people facing life in prison resisted as much as possible, I wonder if that would make some people reconsider some things about the legal system. It would be interesting to research the life expectancy of people sent to prison for various crimes and create a matrix that would show what crimes have mandated - but unoffical - "life in prison" or "death sentences" attached to them.
Right..... Before, they would have to get off their asses at HQ, send someone out to splice into the line and set up a box to sniff the packets going over a strand of cat 5. Now they want a magical dial-in box. This can be cheap and easy, they just apparantly feel that they shouldn't have to, you know, do any work. Of course, this would also allow them to secretly monitor connections. Hoover, McCarthy and the other corrupt people who abused the power of the FBI in the past would of have loved this power.
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Kind of missed the whole "what if the manager made a mistake and did it to the wrong guy" thing, did we?
I'm sorry, but would you just go limp and not defend yourself if some random person (the fry's managers don't wear uniforms where I live, and the whole point of my post was what if someone made a mistake) pulled you (or attempted to) through your car window?
Or would you fight?
If you did, would you use a fist? your keys? a bat? a knife?
Anything you had within reach? I'm pretty sure you would use anything in reach because I don't think you could decide as to what you would use to defend yourself between the time it took for the guy to grab you and the time your ass hit the pavement.
Not sure of your ethical standards, but once someone is actually trying to hurt me or my family I'm going to defend myself with whatever I have handy unless they identify themselves as the police or something similar. If you don't feel that way, well, fine, I guess, but I think your post has more to do with "OMFG!!!1 t3h gunz!!" than an argument on whether someone should fight back with whatever they have handy if they are pulled out their car.
*shrug* I guess.
Getting pulled out of a car is an extremely violent and aggressive action - it is inexcusable for a store employee (anyone, for that matter - except perhaps the police in the most extreme circumstances) to do this, likewise, the attacker should expect an extremely violent and aggressive response.
And if you believe that every situation that occurs between an armed person and someone else ends in a shooting, you're wrong.
While armed, I've personally been robbed once (stupid drunk jock decided to steal a toner cartridge) and have had someone try to mug me. In both cases, I had a handgun either in my hand or in a pocket, but didn't even draw it in (in the first case, the handgun was in the trunk / boot)
Sometimes letting a drunk take an $80 item or throwing a swift punch to the side of the head is all that is necessary to diffuse a situation.
Amazingly, people carrying guns don't become mindless killers that will shoot people at the slightest provocation.
Oh, and although you may be under the impression that your police officers are unarmed - this doesn't necessarily mean they don't carry. Some NZ police carry in an armpit holster, some (usually higher ranking officers) carry multiple firearms in their trunks of their cars. Heck, NZ cops (airport, etc) _have_ to carry and some cop shot a guy for attacking people with a baseball bat a few years ago, but they carry concealed to make the public feel good.
In most places, sure, the speed limits are reasonable - but (and this is a big but) - there are places where the speed limits are set because the people along the street are whiny and complain to their friends in the local government about the noise.
A well lit, well marked, recently paved, wide, straight, _divided_ street that is miles from any school or playground and also happens to be a major traffic route should not be marked 25 miles an hour.
This is more of a problem in the better parts of town, less in the poor sections. There are a couple cases where a 25mph limit is reasonable because the streets are crap (Burnside north of 405 in Portland is one), but those are few and far between.
courageous manager who literally dragged a customer out of his car through the window
.380 or 9mm bullets fired at them, depending on what I'm carrying that day.
Your "courageous manager" is lucky to have survived. If someone drags me out of my car, they will get a few
It would be kind of stupid to get killed because you dragged the wrong guy out of a window.
Even better, it was supposed to cost 2 million C$ (with an m) when it first started. It sort of got a bit over budget.
Garcia's widow threatened to sue, archive.org pulled it.
Happened about a week and a half ago.
Thanks for posting this, I was basically going to to the same post but had to head out.
The CBC had a pretty good documentary that aired in August-ish that took a look at the subway musicians in areas that don't have the classical music playing. You actually have to audition for spots and there are some excellent musicians who make some nice coin for playing (and from refferals from side gigs)
I can't find a link (although it should still be available if you look through a couple documentary binary newsgroups if you have 14 day retention) but the ttc has information about it here.
You may of have heard of Subway Elvis - archive footage from the 70's
I'm sorry, I couldn't hear you over the whooshing of the cane you are swinging in front of my face ;) /I kid
He is considering introducing a much louder unit that can be switched on in emergencies with a panic button. It would be most useful when youths swarm into stores and begin stealing en masse, a phenomenon known in Britain as steaming. The idea would be to blast them with such an unacceptably loud, high noise
Why doesn't he just wave a gun around or hire someone to break some legs?
--a noise inaudible to older shoppers--that they would immediately leave
Wouldn't it be funny if the panic button broke all the windows in the store?
At least, it seems like it to me.
;)
Back in the days of dos, pascal and c programming in a text based ide, I used to run high pitched noises out through the pc speaker. I believe I specified something between 21,000 and 24,000 hz - although I'm fairly sure that the speaker wasn't exactly tuned (although it did go a bit higher (27,000-ish hz), although only a few of us were able to hear it - we had the computer randomly play these high pitched tones and the monitor would change color about 5 seconds after the tone started, so it was sort of a double blind test)
Yeah, high school was tons of fun.
Anyways... Even though the old folks might not be able to hear it consciously, it still affects them. People become moody, short tempered, and in general, quite bitchy. I honestly can't say that it is due to the effects of the sound - or the effects of interacting with people who are able to consciously hear it, but - to me, at least - it doesn't really matter, because chances are that if you have teens hanging around your business, they probably spend money there and you're going to have to interact with them.
And as for whether this bothers teens immensely, I call bullshit. Most of the older TVs out there put out a high pitched noise and it isn't like teens don't spend a ton of time sitting in front of one. Of course, old people enjoy buying crap like this, so it isn't to say there isn't a market.
Also, the sensitivity seems to go away after being exposed to the sounds of gunfire (anecdotal evidence based on my experiences, so take with a grain of salt) and other loud noises, so gangbangers and punkheads probably won't be affected
And please, 75db? feh.
(feel free to use this as a perfect example of how to not write an argumentative essay btw)
Hit Ben's Bargins & Fat Wallet then go shopping at midnight EST.
And then have fucking shitbag stores like Best Buy cancel your orders Tuesday morning. It would be nice if Best Buy decided whether they wanted to actually sell some fucking product before they advertised it and allowed people to place orders.
It is also nice how it takes several days for the refund to hit your card, isn't it? If someone was paranoid, they might think BB was holding the money for several days to earn interest off it.
I'm sure BB gets a good enough rate with the credit card companies for this to be possible.
Bah, everyone is saying this is a star trek spoof - it also parodies B5 quite a bit too (and, IMHO, a bit better)
If you haven't seen it, do. CGI is pretty damn good for a project with basically no budget.
The subtitles are kind of bad, but in a funny kind of way.
*cough* Be WELL *cough*
Good. Public money is paying for your university links to be used for academic purposes, not sharing music and movies. If you want a Linux distro, ask your administrators to mirror the appropriate distro locally
Are you trying to get modded funny or are you stupid enough to believe that if you contact "your" admins, they will do something like that for you?
If the latter, you need to be beaten with a clue stick a couple dozen times.
And as for the whole "public money" bit, it would be a valid argument if
a. students didn't pay tuition (they do, just in case you didn't know) or
b. students weren't forced to pay a "technology fee" or "internet access fee" (especially when the fees exceed the cost of Internet access from a traditional provider)
This will backfire on Sony.
I really hope it does - although I really doubt that it will be because the average joe is pissed (unless someone spins it the right way like "oh no, it downloads kiddie porn") people just care about whether the cd plays in their car stereo and cd player.
Just look at AOL and Dell. Their customer service and product support has sucked for the past few years, and now it has come to bite them in the ass. It will take a long time (several years at best) to change the momentum of how the public sees them.
Yet people buy their stuff - because they are just as bad as every other manufacturer out there.
Perhaps, but I'd guess that this cd would pass the tests and get the mark because it plays in everything except a windows pc w/autorun (and only then because their shitty software breaks your machine)
That said, it is a damn sleazy thing to do - both in terms of screwing the people who buy the CD and in terms of the decision to purchase this (ultimately useless) DRM.
Apparantly a lot of the higher ups in this DRM company also have high level positions in Sony. Would anyone here be surprised if any of the execs at the DRM company received bonuses around the time period that Sony chose their DRM?
If this is given enough public attention, perhaps shareholders may get pissed.
Lets stop pretending that retailers allow you to return CDs.
There are a couple other options available to you - there might be a community health center or some other doctor's office for people who can't afford a hospital visit. Very often nurse might be doing most of the work instead of a doctor in such a free clinic.
Crutches are sometimes available - free of charge or for a small deposit - at grocery stores - I know "save on foods" in Canada does. I believe Haagens does down in the USA although a brief look at your local craigslist might also get you a free pair of crutches and maybe even a roboboot (which is being used pretty often as an alternative to a cast, depending on which bone is broken)
Just get that fixed (and soon), because an improperly set foot will be a pain in the future (believe me, I know).
Actually, the requirement to have some form of health care is pretty common in 4 year schools.
IIRC, hospitals are given a 1:1 tax write off for wach dollar they spend on indigent care.
The worlds smallest violin plays for those lovely people tonight....
And Toilet and Douche was more than happy to give you the number of a local retailer who sold you the biometric door lock for 20x market value. Correct?
But maybe, just maybe, it will convince criminals who are facing life in prison to react "differently" (i.e. more violently) when the police arrest them.
The vast majority of people who are arrested for crimes that will put them in prison for the rest of their lives (which will be shortened by AIDS and substandard medical care) go without too much of a fight, something which I find a bit surprising. Because of mandatory minimums, sentencing "guidelines", etc, there really isn't any possibility of leniency, so it seems illogical to cooperate.
There is a story about a couple guys in an army a while back (Kahn's?, I can't recall and google isn't playing nicely today). They were late one day and it just so happened that the punishment for being late was death. The punishment for mutiny was also death. It doesn't take a genius to figure out what they did...
If all people facing life in prison resisted as much as possible, I wonder if that would make some people reconsider some things about the legal system. It would be interesting to research the life expectancy of people sent to prison for various crimes and create a matrix that would show what crimes have mandated - but unoffical - "life in prison" or "death sentences" attached to them.
Right..... Before, they would have to get off their asses at HQ, send someone out to splice into the line and set up a box to sniff the packets going over a strand of cat 5. Now they want a magical dial-in box. This can be cheap and easy, they just apparantly feel that they shouldn't have to, you know, do any work.
Of course, this would also allow them to secretly monitor connections. Hoover, McCarthy and the other corrupt people who abused the power of the FBI in the past would of have loved this power.