Which "rules of engagement" allows for a standing troop to start fire against uncovered un-uniformed people that didn't open fire first *even* if they are armed?
(1) So what does the insurgent uniform look like?
(2) In war you do not give the enemy the opportunity to fire first.
Would you also be hunting down your countrymen who plant bombs in public places? Even though those bombs were targeting Americans, they ended up killing a much larger number of their own people.
Soldiers do not go into battle with "just enough" to win. They go in with everything they have and they will use the most destructive devices they can. They are not looking for a fair fight.
Keep in mind this was three years ago during some of the most violent times in Iraq. What you are seeing is guerrilla warfare. The enemy does not stand out with "bad guy" uniforms and because of this, the soldiers are on edge and in a defensive posture, exposed out in the open. They are essentially targets sitting around waiting to be shot at. Their friends are being shot and killed or blown up on a daily basis, and this weighs heavily on their thoughts. Operating in an environment like this for weeks on end without a break stresses people to the breaking point. It is only a matter of time before combat fatigue sets in and you start getting mistakes. Mistakes are part of war, and this is reflected in the law of war. Killing civilians is a war crime, but the law leaves ample room for these inevitable actions under stress.
Be careful when you rush to judge people's actions under these conditions.
The USPS is in debt up to its eyeballs because electronic documents are causing a drop in volume. FedEx and USPS have adjusted their rates , fleets and staffing to accommodate this drop. The USPS is less nimble because it faces restrictions imposed by the government (what kind of business it can do, what rates it can charge, etc.). If we ran healthcare like this, you can bet it would have the exact same problem.
Furthermore, various states run insurance companies, but often they are used by private companies to dump their risky products. Since the state then holds the risk, they are supposed to set the rates to a level that can cover it, but the politicians intervene and drop the rates. The result is a company that either has to rely on a taxpayer bailout or failure altogether.
Here in Florida, they created a property insurance company to be the last resort for people who cannot get property insurance, which is required if you finance your house. The private insurance companies started divesting their risky properties, and the state insurance had to take them. When the state insurance company adjusted the rates to accomodate the risk, the policyowners yelled at their politicians, who in turn forced the company to limit the increases. This has resulted in a company that does not have enough money to cover losses in the event of a Hurricane. You can bet that if we get a major hurricane or two (we've had few since the scheme was concocted) that Florida taxpayers will be on the hook for the payouts.
Government healthcare would suffer the same problem with premiums becoming a political football that politicians use to get elected.
I guess open source developers need to get their ideas, no matter how primitive, into the various open source repositories so that there is ample prior art to defend with.
This is more like coming up with a building's evacuation plan before the architects have started on the blueprints. Any formal discussion and policy decisions are too early and will be outdated, ignored or forgotten by the time we have people roaming the among the planets.
The liquid fuels are very corrosive and difficult to handle and store. Cryogenic fuels cannot be stored on the sub either because they do not have the infrastructure to store them and keep them at temperature. They probably could develop a cryo storage tank for a sub, but it likely would add to the noise signature.
Who gives consent? Technically, the perpetrator should have to get consent from the estate of the deceased in order for the act to be legal. No consent = illegal.
This can be done cheaply on the internet. It is done all of the time.
There is a difference between doing it cheaply and doing it well. Internet-only campaigns will only get to a limited number of people. If you want to present your goods in front of more people in a targeted way (TV, radio and print ads), that takes more talent and money. Without targeted ads, you will not intersect with people who do things other than endlessly browse the internet in search of content (which you may be surprised to find out is most people ).
3) Find the promising artists and writers
They know who they are.
I recall a study where people often overestimated their capabilities and thought that they were better than they really were. I guarantee you there are more hacks who think they are God's gift to literature than there are of truly talented writers being ignored by the publishing cabal.
The next time she asks you a question, explain in mind numbing detail what the device is doing and why what she is trying to do won't work. If you can, work in a car (or anything mechanical) analogy.
The next time she has trouble with it, all you will hear are stifled screams of frustration. You will not be bothered by the questions any longer.
Also consider your internet service, which is also billed as being "unlimited". The output of the modem is often only 10MBps. Clearly this places a limit on your unlimited service.
The point I am getting at is that at some point the technology becomes saturated and this places a limit on your service without there being the need for software or billing policy limits. ATT's crappy network caps your "unlimited" service without the need for policy changes.
Using this logic you could sue just about anyone. There are technical limits imposed by the equipment used. You could even sue your router or laptop manufacturer since they limit your ethernet consumption to 100Mbps or 1000Mbps.
Don't most windows accounts have elevated privileges when compared to unix accounts? I know on my windows machine (a default dell installation) the user can go in and overwrite the system files without a problem. This means that the typical windows user account has permissions that require root on a Unix machine, hence the increased trouble on windows machines.
Not too long ago (15-20 years, maybe?) 64-bit processors would have been unheard of on the desktop. I see 64-bit being stretched as we put more high-definition video into our datasets. And then we'll have the next "ultra high def" format that will stretch it even more. And then you have a small (in terms of units shipped), but very profitable business in supercomputing. Protein folding and subatomic research folks would probably jump at the chance to rerun their simulations with a higher resolution.
The original 8086 processor could address 1 megabyte of memory (20 bits) with a 16 bit processor. It used two registers (one shifted left by four bits) to address memory.
A 64 bit processor could trivially access a 128-bit address space by using the same segment:offset method.
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Which "rules of engagement" allows for a standing troop to start fire against uncovered un-uniformed people that didn't open fire first *even* if they are armed?
(1) So what does the insurgent uniform look like?
(2) In war you do not give the enemy the opportunity to fire first.
Would you also be hunting down your countrymen who plant bombs in public places? Even though those bombs were targeting Americans, they ended up killing a much larger number of their own people.
Soldiers do not go into battle with "just enough" to win. They go in with everything they have and they will use the most destructive devices they can. They are not looking for a fair fight.
Keep in mind this was three years ago during some of the most violent times in Iraq. What you are seeing is guerrilla warfare. The enemy does not stand out with "bad guy" uniforms and because of this, the soldiers are on edge and in a defensive posture, exposed out in the open. They are essentially targets sitting around waiting to be shot at. Their friends are being shot and killed or blown up on a daily basis, and this weighs heavily on their thoughts. Operating in an environment like this for weeks on end without a break stresses people to the breaking point. It is only a matter of time before combat fatigue sets in and you start getting mistakes. Mistakes are part of war, and this is reflected in the law of war. Killing civilians is a war crime, but the law leaves ample room for these inevitable actions under stress.
Be careful when you rush to judge people's actions under these conditions.
no, yes, yes, first part and partly.
The USPS is in debt up to its eyeballs because electronic documents are causing a drop in volume. FedEx and USPS have adjusted their rates , fleets and staffing to accommodate this drop. The USPS is less nimble because it faces restrictions imposed by the government (what kind of business it can do, what rates it can charge, etc.). If we ran healthcare like this, you can bet it would have the exact same problem.
Furthermore, various states run insurance companies, but often they are used by private companies to dump their risky products. Since the state then holds the risk, they are supposed to set the rates to a level that can cover it, but the politicians intervene and drop the rates. The result is a company that either has to rely on a taxpayer bailout or failure altogether.
Here in Florida, they created a property insurance company to be the last resort for people who cannot get property insurance, which is required if you finance your house. The private insurance companies started divesting their risky properties, and the state insurance had to take them. When the state insurance company adjusted the rates to accomodate the risk, the policyowners yelled at their politicians, who in turn forced the company to limit the increases. This has resulted in a company that does not have enough money to cover losses in the event of a Hurricane. You can bet that if we get a major hurricane or two (we've had few since the scheme was concocted) that Florida taxpayers will be on the hook for the payouts.
Government healthcare would suffer the same problem with premiums becoming a political football that politicians use to get elected.
I guess open source developers need to get their ideas, no matter how primitive, into the various open source repositories so that there is ample prior art to defend with.
Perhaps it is a faint glow from the heliopause?
What ever happened to the Judean People's Front?
This is more like coming up with a building's evacuation plan before the architects have started on the blueprints. Any formal discussion and policy decisions are too early and will be outdated, ignored or forgotten by the time we have people roaming the among the planets.
That is why this is pointless.
It's "screen door on a submarine," you dork.
A Real Doll is your personal property. People (even dead ones) are not anyone's property and there are limited things that you can do with a corpse.
The liquid fuels are very corrosive and difficult to handle and store. Cryogenic fuels cannot be stored on the sub either because they do not have the infrastructure to store them and keep them at temperature. They probably could develop a cryo storage tank for a sub, but it likely would add to the noise signature.
Solid propellants are the way to go on subs.
Who gives consent? Technically, the perpetrator should have to get consent from the estate of the deceased in order for the act to be legal. No consent = illegal.
Double precision floating point number overflow at 172!, if I recall.
2) Provide marketing
This can be done cheaply on the internet. It is done all of the time.
There is a difference between doing it cheaply and doing it well. Internet-only campaigns will only get to a limited number of people. If you want to present your goods in front of more people in a targeted way (TV, radio and print ads), that takes more talent and money. Without targeted ads, you will not intersect with people who do things other than endlessly browse the internet in search of content (which you may be surprised to find out is most people ).
3) Find the promising artists and writers
They know who they are.
I recall a study where people often overestimated their capabilities and thought that they were better than they really were. I guarantee you there are more hacks who think they are God's gift to literature than there are of truly talented writers being ignored by the publishing cabal.
Maybe we're all too stupid to live.
You just summed up Carlin's work in that one sentence.
The next time she asks you a question, explain in mind numbing detail what the device is doing and why what she is trying to do won't work. If you can, work in a car (or anything mechanical) analogy.
The next time she has trouble with it, all you will hear are stifled screams of frustration. You will not be bothered by the questions any longer.
Worked for me.
If an app needs to be sandboxed to be secure then the problem is with the App, not the OS.
Also consider your internet service, which is also billed as being "unlimited". The output of the modem is often only 10MBps. Clearly this places a limit on your unlimited service.
The point I am getting at is that at some point the technology becomes saturated and this places a limit on your service without there being the need for software or billing policy limits. ATT's crappy network caps your "unlimited" service without the need for policy changes.
Using this logic you could sue just about anyone. There are technical limits imposed by the equipment used. You could even sue your router or laptop manufacturer since they limit your ethernet consumption to 100Mbps or 1000Mbps.
Q: What does this look like?
A: It looks like someone dropped ink on a piece of paper.
Q: What else does this look like?
A: A black and white picture of ketchup that fell on a white floor. ...
But they are ill-tempered, so they have that going for them.
Don't most windows accounts have elevated privileges when compared to unix accounts? I know on my windows machine (a default dell installation) the user can go in and overwrite the system files without a problem. This means that the typical windows user account has permissions that require root on a Unix machine, hence the increased trouble on windows machines.
Not too long ago (15-20 years, maybe?) 64-bit processors would have been unheard of on the desktop. I see 64-bit being stretched as we put more high-definition video into our datasets. And then we'll have the next "ultra high def" format that will stretch it even more. And then you have a small (in terms of units shipped), but very profitable business in supercomputing. Protein folding and subatomic research folks would probably jump at the chance to rerun their simulations with a higher resolution.
How quickly we forget!
The original 8086 processor could address 1 megabyte of memory (20 bits) with a 16 bit processor. It used two registers (one shifted left by four bits) to address memory.
A 64 bit processor could trivially access a 128-bit address space by using the same segment:offset method.