So is your bias. Police officers have extensive training in the use of firearms and in responding to violent situations, and yet make deadly mistakes: Diallo in New York and Menezes in the UK, to name some of the more egregious cases. Civilians don't have that training or experience and will make far more mistakes that end up costing far more innocent lives. After the Virginia Tech shooting, there was hand wringing about gun control on one side, and on the other were hardcore gun advocates blaming the number of deaths on the fact that students weren't allowed to carry guns on campus. Lets say there were hundreds of gun carrying students and faculty on the day Mr. Cho went on his rampage, and word got out that the shooter was an asian kid with a backpack. How many asian kids with backpacks are there at a school of 27,000? How many of those would have gotten shot at? What if some of those asian kids with backpacks also carried guns and started shooting back?
Or how about that xenophobe that had some Muslims thrown off a plane because he thought their praying was a sign of a terrorist attack. Instead of being reported, they could gotten shot instead.
This does not result in people pulling guns for every minor slight against them. In fact, the opposite correlation is seen: states with more permissive gun laws have less violent crime.
And draconian drug laws were supposed to stop the use and sale of drugs, and yet we send hundreds of thousands to people to jail every year. Crime rates have far more to do with the economy and the war on drugs than with the number of people carrying firearms.
If having a replaceable battery is that important to you, surely you will look up the price of said replaceable batteries before plopping down a cool $500, no?
Well gee, THAT makes it ok. So if you commit a crime and are reelected all is forgiven?
Impeachment (or in the House's case, expulsion) isn't about punishment, it's about protecting the integrity of government. He's already been indited, it's just a matter of time before the prosecution hauls him into court and he gets his punishment.
Say what you will, but Republicans take care of their trash.
Name one. Democrats responded to Jefferson getting busted by stripping him of his committee seats. Republicans responded to Delay's impending inditement by...changing the ethics rules to allow him to keep his leadership post.
You term limit politicians, they'll spend their years in office thinking about their next job. And what's going to get them a better job: serving their constituents, or selling them out to powerful special interests?
No, the solution to corruption are hard ethics rules, sunshine laws and aggressive oversight. Term limits just make the problem worse, not better.
It's still not your money, no matter whose fault it is
No, I didn't. You're just wrong. I wasn't able to find it in two minutes of Googling, but there was a court case where a newbie sales clerk accidentally sold a $1,200 baseball card for $12. The store tried to get the card back, but was told tough cookies, you are responsible for the transaction, and once the customer is out the door, too damn bad.
"Oh, well, their loss." -- this is, to me, no better than stealing.
Nope, still wrong. I would be more sympathetic to your argument if these multibillion dollar institutions were held to the same standard you are proposing for the little guy.
That's very poetic and all, but less government for the sake of less government is no more wise than more government for the sake of more government. I'd rather judge government programs by their individual merits, whether or not taxpayers are getting their money, and if the program is unreasonably intrusive. Having law enforcement keep a database of the times and locations of innocent drivers flunks the intrusiveness test for me.
Did you talk to an attorney? I would have told the fuckers to pay up or I'd take a second full time job just to sue their asses into the ground, if necessary.
Can you come up with an analogy a little less stupid? Unless the license plate attracts a cop's attention, he's going to forget it a few seconds after seeing it. Even if you have a cop with photographic memory who can rattle off every plate he's ever seen, that information is not going to be permanently stored in a searchable database.
If you want to grab your ankles for law enforcement, be our guest. Just don't drag the rest of us with you.
As long as access into the database is tracked to prevent abuse - you should have a real reason to pull out records for the face of interest.
If it can be abused, it will be abused. It's just a matter of time. And the idea that there is no expectation of privacy abroad hasn't caught up with the times: huge databases and ever more powerful computers. You can't travel and expect no one to see you as you drive, walk, or fly. You should, however, be able to travel without your every move being recorded and stored indefinitely. Permanent database + facial recognition software + lip reading software means someone thirty years from now could do a search of all the conversations you've had in public. Still okay with massive public surveillance?
His example wasn't stupid. What percentage of the population has photographic memory? What percentage of that population is going to become police officers? Compared to these scanners being installed in cop cars, at traffic lights, on bridges, etc etc. Not to mention the fact that a police officer's photographic memory wont be a part of a permanent, searchable database.
If they're making "little more than minimum wage" then their self-interest is to keep things the way they are. Raising the minimum means some of 'em will lose their jobs. People all over will choose to make a little less money in exchange for a smaller chance of making zero money.
That's the right wing spin alright. But as usual, right wing spin and reality aren't on speaking terms. The truth is that states that have raised the minimum wage have created jobs faster than states that haven't. Keeping the minimum wage down just means that people will have to work more jobs and more hours just to make a decent living, so the CEO can keep his 20% annual pay increase. Speaking of, if the minimum wage had increased at the same rate as CEO pay, it would be over $50 an hour.
Everyone? I thought it was obvious who was going to be on top once Sony released the price points of the PS3 and Nintendo showed off the motion sensing controller. Since this happened last year, I don't know why they are acting all surprised now.
The Neocons are actually a small minority of Republicans, but they seem to have swamped all the top jobs, so their power and influence are totally out of proportion to their numbers.
They may be a small number in name, but the rest of the GOP has sure bought their shinkwrapped, prepackaged bullshit on a regular basis. Nixon was toast because he lost the support of his party. Bush has done far, far, far worse than Nixon, and Nixon wasn't an incompetent coward with his head up his ass. And yet I've only seen one noted conservative, Bruce Fein, stand up and say the SOB needs to be impeached.
I wish Nixon was still alive so he could say "Bush needs to be impeached". He could have kicked the spinless Dems into action, and shamed the media and some Republicans into action.
Carl Rove is a political genius. He knows how to play the Washington game like no other.
Karl Rove is a one trick pony, and that trick worked out very nicely for four elections (Bush as Gov, 2000, 2002, and 2004). However, Rove's political shenanigans, combined with the Iraq war, has doomed the Republicans to minority status for decades, even at the glacial rate that Democrats pull their heads out of their asses. And also might net several criminal convictions as well (USA purge, Tillman, etc).
If you think that Picard was a wuss and wasn't fit to command, then you're just an elitist Original Series snob.:-P
Oh, Picard was fit to command alright...fit to command a purely diplomatic vessel. Any armed conflict between the Enterprise and some Romulans/Klingons/whomever would go like this:
1) enemy ship starts firing on the Enterprise 2) Picard: "open a hailing channel" 3) enemy ship continues firing on the Enterprise 4) Picard orders a couple pot shots at the enemy's weapon systems, after taking 20+ hits 5) enemy ship continues to beat the shit out of the Enterprise 6) Picard finds a diplomatic solution just before his ship gets blown up
The only time the man ever showed any balls was when he was fighting the Borg in First Contact.
A good example is how the ipod auto pauses when the audio jack is removed. One would think that this would be configurable seeing as how EVERYONE removes their headphones eventually. But no. Apple forces you to behave the way THEY want. They make decisions for you and then are so brainwashed by their "innovation" that they never think to make those innovations configurable.
What is the point of continuing to play a song (and running down your battery) when you can't hear it?
And what if you want to seek within the song and then adjust the volume, one after another?
Try pressing the middle button while a song is playing. You can (very quickly) zoom around a song, or press it again and you can set the song's rating.
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Wrong.
If you're using hollow-point ammo like you're supposed to, the bullet will stop inside the first person.
And if they aren't using hollow points? The parent is not wrong. You, however, definitely are a dick.
Pardon me, but your ignorance is showing.
So is your bias. Police officers have extensive training in the use of firearms and in responding to violent situations, and yet make deadly mistakes: Diallo in New York and Menezes in the UK, to name some of the more egregious cases. Civilians don't have that training or experience and will make far more mistakes that end up costing far more innocent lives. After the Virginia Tech shooting, there was hand wringing about gun control on one side, and on the other were hardcore gun advocates blaming the number of deaths on the fact that students weren't allowed to carry guns on campus. Lets say there were hundreds of gun carrying students and faculty on the day Mr. Cho went on his rampage, and word got out that the shooter was an asian kid with a backpack. How many asian kids with backpacks are there at a school of 27,000? How many of those would have gotten shot at? What if some of those asian kids with backpacks also carried guns and started shooting back?
Or how about that xenophobe that had some Muslims thrown off a plane because he thought their praying was a sign of a terrorist attack. Instead of being reported, they could gotten shot instead.
This does not result in people pulling guns for every minor slight against them. In fact, the opposite correlation is seen: states with more permissive gun laws have less violent crime.
And draconian drug laws were supposed to stop the use and sale of drugs, and yet we send hundreds of thousands to people to jail every year. Crime rates have far more to do with the economy and the war on drugs than with the number of people carrying firearms.
You can get more with a kind word and a gun than with a kind word alone. Al Capone.
And how many writers and actors would end up on the streets because of a crappy 19 second clip? Get a grip man.
If having a replaceable battery is that important to you, surely you will look up the price of said replaceable batteries before plopping down a cool $500, no?
If you need a phone with easily replaceable batteries, then buy one.
Well gee, THAT makes it ok. So if you commit a crime and are reelected all is forgiven?
Impeachment (or in the House's case, expulsion) isn't about punishment, it's about protecting the integrity of government. He's already been indited, it's just a matter of time before the prosecution hauls him into court and he gets his punishment.
Say what you will, but Republicans take care of their trash.
Name one. Democrats responded to Jefferson getting busted by stripping him of his committee seats. Republicans responded to Delay's impending inditement by...changing the ethics rules to allow him to keep his leadership post.
You term limit politicians, they'll spend their years in office thinking about their next job. And what's going to get them a better job: serving their constituents, or selling them out to powerful special interests?
No, the solution to corruption are hard ethics rules, sunshine laws and aggressive oversight. Term limits just make the problem worse, not better.
Did you miss the part where I said:
It's still not your money, no matter whose fault it is
No, I didn't. You're just wrong. I wasn't able to find it in two minutes of Googling, but there was a court case where a newbie sales clerk accidentally sold a $1,200 baseball card for $12. The store tried to get the card back, but was told tough cookies, you are responsible for the transaction, and once the customer is out the door, too damn bad.
"Oh, well, their loss." -- this is, to me, no better than stealing.
Nope, still wrong. I would be more sympathetic to your argument if these multibillion dollar institutions were held to the same standard you are proposing for the little guy.
That's very poetic and all, but less government for the sake of less government is no more wise than more government for the sake of more government. I'd rather judge government programs by their individual merits, whether or not taxpayers are getting their money, and if the program is unreasonably intrusive. Having law enforcement keep a database of the times and locations of innocent drivers flunks the intrusiveness test for me.
Talking about this case? Know if they got it back?
Seriously, just because you were not the one who hacked the thing, doesn't give you the right to exploit the flow.
It's their flaw, their problem. Tough cookies.
It's like stealing stuff from a shop because the window was broken by someone else.
Not in a billion years.
Did you talk to an attorney? I would have told the fuckers to pay up or I'd take a second full time job just to sue their asses into the ground, if necessary.
Their screw up equals stealing how?
Can you come up with an analogy a little less stupid? Unless the license plate attracts a cop's attention, he's going to forget it a few seconds after seeing it. Even if you have a cop with photographic memory who can rattle off every plate he's ever seen, that information is not going to be permanently stored in a searchable database.
Sounds great. I see no problem with this.
If you want to grab your ankles for law enforcement, be our guest. Just don't drag the rest of us with you.
As long as access into the database is tracked to prevent abuse - you should have a real reason to pull out records for the face of interest.
If it can be abused, it will be abused. It's just a matter of time. And the idea that there is no expectation of privacy abroad hasn't caught up with the times: huge databases and ever more powerful computers. You can't travel and expect no one to see you as you drive, walk, or fly. You should, however, be able to travel without your every move being recorded and stored indefinitely. Permanent database + facial recognition software + lip reading software means someone thirty years from now could do a search of all the conversations you've had in public. Still okay with massive public surveillance?
My example is no less overreaching than your own.
His example wasn't stupid. What percentage of the population has photographic memory? What percentage of that population is going to become police officers? Compared to these scanners being installed in cop cars, at traffic lights, on bridges, etc etc. Not to mention the fact that a police officer's photographic memory wont be a part of a permanent, searchable database.
If they're making "little more than minimum wage" then their self-interest is to keep things the way they are. Raising the minimum means some of 'em will lose their jobs. People all over will choose to make a little less money in exchange for a smaller chance of making zero money.
That's the right wing spin alright. But as usual, right wing spin and reality aren't on speaking terms. The truth is that states that have raised the minimum wage have created jobs faster than states that haven't. Keeping the minimum wage down just means that people will have to work more jobs and more hours just to make a decent living, so the CEO can keep his 20% annual pay increase. Speaking of, if the minimum wage had increased at the same rate as CEO pay, it would be over $50 an hour.
Everyone? I thought it was obvious who was going to be on top once Sony released the price points of the PS3 and Nintendo showed off the motion sensing controller. Since this happened last year, I don't know why they are acting all surprised now.
The Neocons are actually a small minority of Republicans, but they seem to have swamped all the top jobs, so their power and influence are totally out of proportion to their numbers.
They may be a small number in name, but the rest of the GOP has sure bought their shinkwrapped, prepackaged bullshit on a regular basis. Nixon was toast because he lost the support of his party. Bush has done far, far, far worse than Nixon, and Nixon wasn't an incompetent coward with his head up his ass. And yet I've only seen one noted conservative, Bruce Fein, stand up and say the SOB needs to be impeached.
I wish Nixon was still alive so he could say "Bush needs to be impeached". He could have kicked the spinless Dems into action, and shamed the media and some Republicans into action.
Carl Rove is a political genius. He knows how to play the Washington game like no other.
Karl Rove is a one trick pony, and that trick worked out very nicely for four elections (Bush as Gov, 2000, 2002, and 2004). However, Rove's political shenanigans, combined with the Iraq war, has doomed the Republicans to minority status for decades, even at the glacial rate that Democrats pull their heads out of their asses. And also might net several criminal convictions as well (USA purge, Tillman, etc).
If you think that Picard was a wuss and wasn't fit to command, then you're just an elitist Original Series snob. :-P
Oh, Picard was fit to command alright...fit to command a purely diplomatic vessel. Any armed conflict between the Enterprise and some Romulans/Klingons/whomever would go like this:
1) enemy ship starts firing on the Enterprise
2) Picard: "open a hailing channel"
3) enemy ship continues firing on the Enterprise
4) Picard orders a couple pot shots at the enemy's weapon systems, after taking 20+ hits
5) enemy ship continues to beat the shit out of the Enterprise
6) Picard finds a diplomatic solution just before his ship gets blown up
The only time the man ever showed any balls was when he was fighting the Borg in First Contact.
A good example is how the ipod auto pauses when the audio jack is removed. One would think that this would be configurable seeing as how EVERYONE removes their headphones eventually. But no. Apple forces you to behave the way THEY want. They make decisions for you and then are so brainwashed by their "innovation" that they never think to make those innovations configurable.
What is the point of continuing to play a song (and running down your battery) when you can't hear it?
But, seeking through a song by holding down a button is naturally going to be more awkward than using the wheel
:)
Better get rid of the button then.
And what if you want to seek within the song and then adjust the volume, one after another?
Try pressing the middle button while a song is playing. You can (very quickly) zoom around a song, or press it again and you can set the song's rating.