Most of this stuff is old news to those of us who've been complaining about it for at least 10 years. More contemporaneously (before this story broke), about a month ago I watched Erin Burnett laughing it up with an ex-FBI guy over how the government was storing all of our phone conversations and could retrieve them later. There was zero concern then and the media was obviously aware this was going on.
I just read a commentor on another forum suggesting the MSM got pissed off when they found out their precious privileges no longer apply (a valid concern when you need anonymous sources), so now they've launched a full-court press to get the public on board getting privacy rights reinstalled.
You have to gradually change styles. Coming out with a design that's aesthetically too radical will turn off a lot of consumers. "Radical" implies untested and unproven to some.
The only people who are going to go out an eat a bug are the very daring Fear Factor types. Heck, I know rural kids who won't touch seafood because they never grew up w/ it and the smells/sights are off-putting. But, in a country were there's nothing close to a food shortage, good luck promoting a new, very small, very gross alternative!
You live next to a guy who decides to turn is backyard into a giant chicken coop and I'm sure you'd change your mind about that. Those zoning laws are about expectation for home buyers. It's one thing if you're rural, totally another if you go "hog wild" in your suburban back yard.
I watched a documentary once about some scientists stranded in the jungle who'd been collecting giant bugs of some sort. They ended up eating their samples they were so hungry. One of them said that they tasted a lot like lobster.
I know w/ Windows any new app or game comes out and it WILL be released for it. Yeah, maybe your favorite game is available on another platform, but what happens when you get bored w/ it?
Bill Murray is a naturally hilarious guy. Vince Vaughn has been working the same schtick since Swingers. I saw the ads and thought, Isn't he a little old to be doing these kinds of flicks?.
This is well hashed-out 4th amendment stuff. If I've got a video tape of me killing my wife in my safe and law enforcement has a taped conversation of me talking about it, they can get a warrant with "probable cause" to force me to provide access to that safe; with a penalty of contempt of court until I do.
I was watching CNN about a month ago when some ex-FBI guy was on discussing how they'd probably track down conspirators w/ the Boston bombers. He let it slip that the government would rebuild their conversations, to which Erin Barnett [sic] responded "oh, they can do that?" Then they both had a polite little chuckle about how the government is recording our conversations; cut to commercial.
Fast forward just one or two weeks and we find out that the government got warrants for conversations with members of the press. THEN, I start hearing all the ravenous outrage about privacy and rights and freedom of the press. When it was US, they didn't give a shit!
I have a leatherman that is *awesome*. It's one of those tools you'd love to have with you 24/7 because it's so versatile. But, I wouldn't trust myself to get into the habit of carrying it around and risk the danger of taking it through some checkpoint and getting arrested for attempted terrorism.
You still need a process. What Agile basically says is "we're so good or we understand what we're doing so well, we can skip some of the high ceremony." Agile is like a pro athlete cutting corners and making non-fundamental plays because they're good enough to know when it's appropriate.
But, it's like every other tool; it was made for a certain job. You try working in screws with the claw end of a hammer, and you can expect your results to suck. If you don't have a staff of above-average, disciplined developers and small or well-understood project goal odds are you're applying the wrong path. Agile isn't for project managers who just want to save money and speed up development.
I played for about 2 years and enjoyed the heck out of the game. When I had my fill, I quit with memories of what I consider the greatest game ever created. Now, for some reason WoW is the object of derision of geeks. And, from complaints I can tell it's people who played FAR longer than I did as they're bitching about higher level classes and dungeons than I ever achieved.
It's not Blizzards fault that you played a fun and engaging game with the pathological craving of a drug addict until you couldn't stand it anymore. That's on YOU and your lack of self control. If grinding bothered you, you would've stopped playing before you got your first mount.
I play Eve now and there's the same incessant, pretentious mocking of WoW from people act like they moved to the Hamptons with their "new money" airs of superiority. And, as perplexing as it is for me to understand, the same people who spend hours probing for wormholes or mining lasers mock their days grinding in WoW!
A couple more points. They took a blood sample from OJ and illegally took it out to the crime scene to "give to a detective." When that blood was finally checked back in, some of it was missing. Additionally, OJ's blood found on the scene was contaminated with a preservative used in blood samples taken from suspects. AND blood started magically appearing in other places. You can have any opinion you want about OJ's guilt, but LAPD planted evidence to help out their case.
What I'm saying is that the word "unreasonable" means that the amendment is setting a standard that we can use to interpret the constitution. And, that definition is free to change with culture and the times. The stockades were reasonable 300 years ago, but unreasonable today. My problem with originalists is they say that whatever was OK in 1789 is OK today even if the wording of the Constitution states something different.
It's a philosophy that I also can't stand. Laws are pedantic. Justices only have the option of interpreting what's written and not divining unrecorded meanings. When justices start digging around for other writings or papers and what laws were in place in some forefather's home town in 1800, you're moving into the territory of divining meaning where there is no law.
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Most of this stuff is old news to those of us who've been complaining about it for at least 10 years. More contemporaneously (before this story broke), about a month ago I watched Erin Burnett laughing it up with an ex-FBI guy over how the government was storing all of our phone conversations and could retrieve them later. There was zero concern then and the media was obviously aware this was going on.
I just read a commentor on another forum suggesting the MSM got pissed off when they found out their precious privileges no longer apply (a valid concern when you need anonymous sources), so now they've launched a full-court press to get the public on board getting privacy rights reinstalled.
...to thunderous applause.
You have to gradually change styles. Coming out with a design that's aesthetically too radical will turn off a lot of consumers. "Radical" implies untested and unproven to some.
The only people who are going to go out an eat a bug are the very daring Fear Factor types. Heck, I know rural kids who won't touch seafood because they never grew up w/ it and the smells/sights are off-putting. But, in a country were there's nothing close to a food shortage, good luck promoting a new, very small, very gross alternative!
You also have canines to keep your squirming, live prey from breaking the vice-like grip of your jaws. I get your point, though.
You live next to a guy who decides to turn is backyard into a giant chicken coop and I'm sure you'd change your mind about that. Those zoning laws are about expectation for home buyers. It's one thing if you're rural, totally another if you go "hog wild" in your suburban back yard.
I watched a documentary once about some scientists stranded in the jungle who'd been collecting giant bugs of some sort. They ended up eating their samples they were so hungry. One of them said that they tasted a lot like lobster.
I did, but I just keep launching fireballs out of my CDROM.
I know w/ Windows any new app or game comes out and it WILL be released for it. Yeah, maybe your favorite game is available on another platform, but what happens when you get bored w/ it?
Bill Murray is a naturally hilarious guy. Vince Vaughn has been working the same schtick since Swingers. I saw the ads and thought, Isn't he a little old to be doing these kinds of flicks?.
...and having theirs drunk?
This is well hashed-out 4th amendment stuff. If I've got a video tape of me killing my wife in my safe and law enforcement has a taped conversation of me talking about it, they can get a warrant with "probable cause" to force me to provide access to that safe; with a penalty of contempt of court until I do.
Paraphrasing someone wiser than me, in the modern world by the time you need to exercise your 2nd amendment rights it'll already be too late.
I was watching CNN about a month ago when some ex-FBI guy was on discussing how they'd probably track down conspirators w/ the Boston bombers. He let it slip that the government would rebuild their conversations, to which Erin Barnett [sic] responded "oh, they can do that?" Then they both had a polite little chuckle about how the government is recording our conversations; cut to commercial.
Fast forward just one or two weeks and we find out that the government got warrants for conversations with members of the press. THEN, I start hearing all the ravenous outrage about privacy and rights and freedom of the press. When it was US, they didn't give a shit!
I have a leatherman that is *awesome*. It's one of those tools you'd love to have with you 24/7 because it's so versatile. But, I wouldn't trust myself to get into the habit of carrying it around and risk the danger of taking it through some checkpoint and getting arrested for attempted terrorism.
You just said that smart devs "will work it out." That's not a process.
Ten thousand years ago, I bet you would've been that caveman skeptic crapping all over Grog's new fandangled "wheel."
My vote for the original Firefox.
You still need a process. What Agile basically says is "we're so good or we understand what we're doing so well, we can skip some of the high ceremony." Agile is like a pro athlete cutting corners and making non-fundamental plays because they're good enough to know when it's appropriate.
But, it's like every other tool; it was made for a certain job. You try working in screws with the claw end of a hammer, and you can expect your results to suck. If you don't have a staff of above-average, disciplined developers and small or well-understood project goal odds are you're applying the wrong path. Agile isn't for project managers who just want to save money and speed up development.
I played for about 2 years and enjoyed the heck out of the game. When I had my fill, I quit with memories of what I consider the greatest game ever created. Now, for some reason WoW is the object of derision of geeks. And, from complaints I can tell it's people who played FAR longer than I did as they're bitching about higher level classes and dungeons than I ever achieved.
It's not Blizzards fault that you played a fun and engaging game with the pathological craving of a drug addict until you couldn't stand it anymore. That's on YOU and your lack of self control. If grinding bothered you, you would've stopped playing before you got your first mount.
I play Eve now and there's the same incessant, pretentious mocking of WoW from people act like they moved to the Hamptons with their "new money" airs of superiority. And, as perplexing as it is for me to understand, the same people who spend hours probing for wormholes or mining lasers mock their days grinding in WoW!
That was the storyline in single-player Warcraft 3 as I recall.
A couple more points. They took a blood sample from OJ and illegally took it out to the crime scene to "give to a detective." When that blood was finally checked back in, some of it was missing. Additionally, OJ's blood found on the scene was contaminated with a preservative used in blood samples taken from suspects. AND blood started magically appearing in other places. You can have any opinion you want about OJ's guilt, but LAPD planted evidence to help out their case.
What I'm saying is that the word "unreasonable" means that the amendment is setting a standard that we can use to interpret the constitution. And, that definition is free to change with culture and the times. The stockades were reasonable 300 years ago, but unreasonable today. My problem with originalists is they say that whatever was OK in 1789 is OK today even if the wording of the Constitution states something different.
It's a philosophy that I also can't stand. Laws are pedantic. Justices only have the option of interpreting what's written and not divining unrecorded meanings. When justices start digging around for other writings or papers and what laws were in place in some forefather's home town in 1800, you're moving into the territory of divining meaning where there is no law.