Besides, they convicted Peterson. Plenty of "reasonably intelligent people" have attempted murder, and either fouled it up and got caught, or did it and got caught.
A: Happens every year. Heck, the dead voting in Louisiana is a running joke. We're just getting more uptight about it, which hopefully means that the problems will be fixed. B: Happens just about everywhere else too, if you look close enough. Heck, yeah, put it out in public, makes sure that people don't get to trust the system too much, making sure that oversight is maintained. C: We want to be left alone too. Have you read what the islamofacists ultimatly want? They want nothing less than a global muslim theocracy.
Wouldn't this be more of a torch? The gas can't burn until there's oxygen available, which won't be available for the first little distance.
Don't grills work on the principle of "highly pressurized gas leaving a tank". Except they also have a device to oxegenate the propapne, and the flame still doesn't enter the burner.
And it's really sad. At the moment the Air Force has leadership that recognizes this, and are actually moving to ressurect and reconnect units with their history.
Which is why you try to avoid using closed formats. It's been said multiple times, but I think it bears repeating.
For data you want to preserve, you don't use new-fangled systems, propriatory systems unless you're willing to pay the price. My dad has to work with some propriatory systems that the business has been using for so long that the software company really has them by the balls.
For true longevity you use mass-market multi-source equipment, use open formats in common use, and backup, backup, backup.
Electronic storage is too new to really answer this, but if you do some studying, there are conversion tools for all sorts of files. Also, the computer way is often to "support everything". For example, I don't see loosing JPEG ability until the '86 compatability line goes away completely. Networking eliminates many of the media concerns.
As for conversion of audiovisual files, I know there are already utilities to automatically convert from format to format. As long as you halfway monitor your content, you should be fine.
The old silver photographs were more carefully done than many today, but you have to consider that even then a large number of photos were taken, and most destroyed over time. And how do you know that it wasn't "super clear" back in 1870?
If you think about it, what 18/19th century houses are still surviving? It's pretty much the best.5% or whatever.
If you figure that most people's data is under a gig. We're not talking about system images here, just the "my documents folder" and it's ilk. Less than a hundred megs/month with most people, including photographs, unless they really love their mpeg home movies.
With decent broadband and some system to do the backups during non-peak hours, you can easily do tens gigabytes a month. Will it cost? Yes, but it's like doing your own car repairs. Unless you have a garage equiped like the shop, they can do it quicker and easier than you. Is it worth paying $20 a month for not having to worry about backups for a couple hours a month, would you seriously consider it at $20/year?
There's a photo shop in the mall around me that can take all or most digital media containers and print out only the prints you want. If you want more than eight or so pictures, it's something like 1/3 the cost of doing it on my home printer.
And they have 1/2 hour delivery, so they'd be done by the time you meander to the opposite end of the mall and back. For true convenience, there's internet sites that allow you to upload your pictures for printing, then they mail them to you.
If I had mod points I'd either mod you funny-or insightful.
I'd like to see how many inmates in the prison system are there for "victimless crimes" - ones where all involved were adult, willing, and aware participants. As for "hurting your loved ones" because you can't hold a job because of your addiction- that's a personal problem, not the drugs. People have had problems because of: Alcohol, everquest, cars, plants, photographs, affairs, midlife crisis, and just plain going nuts. There are quite a few alcoholics who manage to keep their job through years of abuse. Some personal responsability, please?
I do believe that you're right. except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted is the clause that allows prisons. The other one was intended to say that they can't deny former slaves the vote.
Now you'd have a tougher arguement about a person who's on parole.
But then, you have judges who find that "A well regulated militia, being necessary to the security of a free state, the right of the people to keep and bear arms, shall not be infringed." talks about the national guard.
Once is chance Twice is coincidence Thrice is a pattern.
Would you prefer a "Fool me once, shame on you, fool me twice, shame on me" Two strike law?
Three is a nice number, it's enough to formally indicate that the person is a career criminal. "Three strikes and you're out!" is a catchy phrase used to hopefully "scare people straight"
Have you ever heard about the people with seven, eight, or even a dozen DUI's, including a number of accidents? Different measures need to be taken with them. In Germany, if they catch you driving on a suspended license you go to Prison. First offense DUI is severe. They don't have much of a DUI problem...
I have to agree with this. You can successfully argue that a convict is better off in Abu Graib than some american prisons. From what I've heard, it seems that the higher ups, not having any experience running a prison, used reservists who were civilian guards. I noted that the highest ranking individual charged was one. I think it indicates a major problem with our civilian prison system.
Consider-You have problems in american prisons with: 1. Rape 2. Murder 3. Beatings/assaults 4. Drugs
Actually, they failed not because they ran out of ammo, but because the aliens lost so many on the "easy" route that they found an alternate path through the ceilings.
The gun was in the red zone for remaining ammo, though.
Solution: More ammo, and smaller ventilation ducts.
Video motion detectors work on the principle of change - usually fast change. When enough pixels change levels above a threshold within a few frames, movement is assumed. So a teleport would show up glaringly. Now if the computer's trying to determine vector, it'd have trouble.
I'd say that the on-board video has replaced the add-on card for most users, especially corporate. The price savings are great. I'm also starting to see more small-factor PC's.
If you accept that: A: You're not going to do any significant upgrades B: The computer will be replaced within 3-5 years C: Computers that break will be either covered by a warrenty or replaced.
A small factor PC makes alot of sense. If you don't need any(or only 1) slots - that removes the need for quite a bit of motherboard real estate. You can use the saved space for the Hard drive and CD/DVD.
Nope - We're the 800 pound gorilla. 9/11 woke us up, and now we're pissed and swatting at annoyances. I had a clue back when Bush was elected the first time that Iraq was on his list. We'd been guarding and patroling for the last eight years. If anything 9/11 delayed the invasion.
The reasons for us going into Iraq are many and varied. I believe that we should have taken out Saddam way back when, but we didn't.
In a democracy you have to follow certain rules.
Is there a world democracy? Is there an effective "world police" without the USA? How many successful UN interventions have happened without the aid of the USA?
The United States is acting in a manner comparable to an angry mob.
That's true democracy for you, which is why the USA is not one. We're a republic. There are rules in place to protect the minority from the majority. If we were truly acting like an angry mob, we would have nuked somebody.
We've been attacked, and we won't tolerate that. Clinton's era convinced foreigners that the US military was a paper tiger-inflict some casualties and we'd back down. Look at France - despite their backing down, the terrorists are still kidnapping and making more demands, after all, it works!
There are large numbers of people in the USA that believe that the UN is corrupt, that NATO is ineffective, and that we should pull out of both.
In other words- We don't care what the director of the UN says. The reason that we did it without UN approval was because France and Germany, who were profiting from the corrupt "oil-for-food" program, opposed the removal of Saddam. As France has veto powers, nothing would have been done. We entered Iraq on several previous orders.
Here's a scenario: Police officers have a crook with a gun holding a pregnant woman as a shield. He has a rifle, so body armor isn't effective. He's seriously trying to kill the officers. Do they take the shot or not? Do they take the shot because if they don't, more crooks/terrorists will use them as shields, while they walk up to the police stations while shooting?
An incident like this did happen, with multiple terrorists using both women and children as shields. Fortuantly, an american sniper was on hand who proceeded to headshot all the terrorists - while the troops on the ground held their fire.
As for "shooting to kill" the crowds and later the women being used as cover for the enemy, they aren't shooting to kill them. They're shooting for the hostiles, the women are "collateral damage". As in, the women are getting hit with the misses of the soldiers. Lesson learned-If you're a civilian in a city where military conflict is going on, get under cover/get out! War is ugly. War is nasty.
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Hatfields and McCoys anybody?
Besides, they convicted Peterson. Plenty of "reasonably intelligent people" have attempted murder, and either fouled it up and got caught, or did it and got caught.
A: Happens every year. Heck, the dead voting in Louisiana is a running joke. We're just getting more uptight about it, which hopefully means that the problems will be fixed.
B: Happens just about everywhere else too, if you look close enough. Heck, yeah, put it out in public, makes sure that people don't get to trust the system too much, making sure that oversight is maintained.
C: We want to be left alone too. Have you read what the islamofacists ultimatly want? They want nothing less than a global muslim theocracy.
Wouldn't this be more of a torch? The gas can't burn until there's oxygen available, which won't be available for the first little distance.
Don't grills work on the principle of "highly pressurized gas leaving a tank". Except they also have a device to oxegenate the propapne, and the flame still doesn't enter the burner.
And it's really sad. At the moment the Air Force has leadership that recognizes this, and are actually moving to ressurect and reconnect units with their history.
Which is why you try to avoid using closed formats. It's been said multiple times, but I think it bears repeating.
For data you want to preserve, you don't use new-fangled systems, propriatory systems unless you're willing to pay the price. My dad has to work with some propriatory systems that the business has been using for so long that the software company really has them by the balls.
For true longevity you use mass-market multi-source equipment, use open formats in common use, and backup, backup, backup.
Actually, xdrive's down to $100 a year for 5 GB. And you can share those files.
If you want to store something securely, you have to pay for it in some way. Whether that be with money, or your own time and expertise.
Electronic storage is too new to really answer this, but if you do some studying, there are conversion tools for all sorts of files. Also, the computer way is often to "support everything". For example, I don't see loosing JPEG ability until the '86 compatability line goes away completely. Networking eliminates many of the media concerns.
As for conversion of audiovisual files, I know there are already utilities to automatically convert from format to format. As long as you halfway monitor your content, you should be fine.
They don't build them like they used to...
.5% or whatever.
The old silver photographs were more carefully done than many today, but you have to consider that even then a large number of photos were taken, and most destroyed over time. And how do you know that it wasn't "super clear" back in 1870?
If you think about it, what 18/19th century houses are still surviving? It's pretty much the best
There already are.
If you figure that most people's data is under a gig. We're not talking about system images here, just the "my documents folder" and it's ilk. Less than a hundred megs/month with most people, including photographs, unless they really love their mpeg home movies.
With decent broadband and some system to do the backups during non-peak hours, you can easily do tens gigabytes a month. Will it cost? Yes, but it's like doing your own car repairs. Unless you have a garage equiped like the shop, they can do it quicker and easier than you. Is it worth paying $20 a month for not having to worry about backups for a couple hours a month, would you seriously consider it at $20/year?
2nd paid advert for "web backup" on google
There's a photo shop in the mall around me that can take all or most digital media containers and print out only the prints you want. If you want more than eight or so pictures, it's something like 1/3 the cost of doing it on my home printer.
And they have 1/2 hour delivery, so they'd be done by the time you meander to the opposite end of the mall and back. For true convenience, there's internet sites that allow you to upload your pictures for printing, then they mail them to you.
If I had mod points I'd either mod you funny-or insightful.
I'd like to see how many inmates in the prison system are there for "victimless crimes" - ones where all involved were adult, willing, and aware participants. As for "hurting your loved ones" because you can't hold a job because of your addiction- that's a personal problem, not the drugs. People have had problems because of: Alcohol, everquest, cars, plants, photographs, affairs, midlife crisis, and just plain going nuts. There are quite a few alcoholics who manage to keep their job through years of abuse. Some personal responsability, please?
I do believe that you're right.
except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted is the clause that allows prisons. The other one was intended to say that they can't deny former slaves the vote.
Now you'd have a tougher arguement about a person who's on parole.
But then, you have judges who find that "A well regulated militia, being necessary to the security of a free state, the right of the people to keep and bear arms, shall not be infringed." talks about the national guard.
Once is chance
Twice is coincidence
Thrice is a pattern.
Would you prefer a "Fool me once, shame on you, fool me twice, shame on me" Two strike law?
Three is a nice number, it's enough to formally indicate that the person is a career criminal.
"Three strikes and you're out!" is a catchy phrase used to hopefully "scare people straight"
Have you ever heard about the people with seven, eight, or even a dozen DUI's, including a number of accidents? Different measures need to be taken with them. In Germany, if they catch you driving on a suspended license you go to Prison. First offense DUI is severe. They don't have much of a DUI problem...
Next thing you know you'll be bolting your domains to the floor.
I have to agree with this. You can successfully argue that a convict is better off in Abu Graib than some american prisons. From what I've heard, it seems that the higher ups, not having any experience running a prison, used reservists who were civilian guards. I noted that the highest ranking individual charged was one. I think it indicates a major problem with our civilian prison system.
Consider-You have problems in american prisons with:
1. Rape
2. Murder
3. Beatings/assaults
4. Drugs
One such problem, but google's overwhelmed
Aye! ;)
Actually, they failed not because they ran out of ammo, but because the aliens lost so many on the "easy" route that they found an alternate path through the ceilings.
The gun was in the red zone for remaining ammo, though.
Solution: More ammo, and smaller ventilation ducts.
Video motion detectors work on the principle of change - usually fast change. When enough pixels change levels above a threshold within a few frames, movement is assumed. So a teleport would show up glaringly. Now if the computer's trying to determine vector, it'd have trouble.
And that's why you try to lower barriers to entry into a market. That way somebody else comes along and opens a business and steals all the customers.
I'd say that the on-board video has replaced the add-on card for most users, especially corporate. The price savings are great. I'm also starting to see more small-factor PC's.
If you accept that:
A: You're not going to do any significant upgrades
B: The computer will be replaced within 3-5 years
C: Computers that break will be either covered by a warrenty or replaced.
A small factor PC makes alot of sense. If you don't need any(or only 1) slots - that removes the need for quite a bit of motherboard real estate. You can use the saved space for the Hard drive and CD/DVD.
YOU ARE NOT THE WORLD POLICE.
Nope - We're the 800 pound gorilla. 9/11 woke us up, and now we're pissed and swatting at annoyances. I had a clue back when Bush was elected the first time that Iraq was on his list. We'd been guarding and patroling for the last eight years. If anything 9/11 delayed the invasion.
The reasons for us going into Iraq are many and varied. I believe that we should have taken out Saddam way back when, but we didn't.
In a democracy you have to follow certain rules.
Is there a world democracy? Is there an effective "world police" without the USA? How many successful UN interventions have happened without the aid of the USA?
The United States is acting in a manner comparable to an angry mob.
That's true democracy for you, which is why the USA is not one. We're a republic. There are rules in place to protect the minority from the majority. If we were truly acting like an angry mob, we would have nuked somebody.
We've been attacked, and we won't tolerate that. Clinton's era convinced foreigners that the US military was a paper tiger-inflict some casualties and we'd back down. Look at France - despite their backing down, the terrorists are still kidnapping and making more demands, after all, it works!
abandoned rather a long while ago
Actually, they were used in the shuttle until quite recently.
Well, there's your problem. The PATA is a Maxtor, those are some of the louder drives from what I've noticed.
Please tell us the SATA's make/model, I'm currently trying to build a quiet but well cooled PC, and drive noise does make a factor.
There are large numbers of people in the USA that believe that the UN is corrupt, that NATO is ineffective, and that we should pull out of both.
In other words- We don't care what the director of the UN says. The reason that we did it without UN approval was because France and Germany, who were profiting from the corrupt "oil-for-food" program, opposed the removal of Saddam. As France has veto powers, nothing would have been done. We entered Iraq on several previous orders.
Here's a scenario: Police officers have a crook with a gun holding a pregnant woman as a shield. He has a rifle, so body armor isn't effective. He's seriously trying to kill the officers. Do they take the shot or not? Do they take the shot because if they don't, more crooks/terrorists will use them as shields, while they walk up to the police stations while shooting?
An incident like this did happen, with multiple terrorists using both women and children as shields. Fortuantly, an american sniper was on hand who proceeded to headshot all the terrorists - while the troops on the ground held their fire.
As for "shooting to kill" the crowds and later the women being used as cover for the enemy, they aren't shooting to kill them. They're shooting for the hostiles, the women are "collateral damage". As in, the women are getting hit with the misses of the soldiers. Lesson learned-If you're a civilian in a city where military conflict is going on, get under cover/get out! War is ugly. War is nasty.