It is not a documentary. Once again, the error in the summary has managed to misinform and confuse thousands of Slashdotters.
From TFA:
A new German TV movie tells the story of a man whose family life was destroyed after joining the Church of Scientology. The drama, which is based on a true story, was filmed in secret to prevent the organization taking legal action against the project. . . The drama will air on March 31 under the title "Until Nothing Is Left." This will be the first German feature film about Scientology, the first drama to use the controversial belief system as evening entertainment.
So, they are not EXACTLY "just being candid". On the other hand, just because something is a documentary, that does not mean that it is true. See Operation Lune (Dark Side of the Moon) for an excellent example of how to twist actual events and interviews out of a contest in order to present "your version of the truth".
Being just a concept so far, I believe that it should be referred to as ideaware. Or would that be iDeaware?
Features Near Field Communication (NFC) NFCIP-1 and ISO 18092 compliant Supports contactless payment Peer to peer communication Data exchange speed up to 424 kbps Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) ISO 14443A/B compliant ISO 15693 compliant Supports NXP MIFARE® Supports NXP MIFARE DESFire ® Supports I-CODE® SLI Supports Texas Instrument Tag-it(TM) HF-I Read, write and search 13.56 MHz HF RFID tags SmartCard Integrated SAM (Secure Access Module) SmartCard compliant JCOP OS NXP MIFARE® Classic 1K tag emulation iPhone Made for iPod (MFI) accessory Supports iPhone 3G or iPhone 3GS Charge iPhone and iTune Sync via mini-USB Compact and Reliable Snap-On Design Extends iPhone length by 16.5mm (0.65") 62.1 x 26.5 x 12.3 mm (2.4" x 1.0" x 0.5") Available in black or white color Read/Write Range Up to 4.0 cm (1.5") for NFC Up to 5.0 cm (2.0") for ISO 14443A/B Up to 6.0 cm (2.5") for ISO 15693 Range depends on tag configuration, orientation and environment Low Power Consumption 90 mA (typical) RFID Read/Write mode 5 mA (typical) Contactless Payment mode Features and specifications subject to change. V0.4
Meter and the metric system are human attempts to bring some order into the chaos of the imperial system. As there is a single ruling body that determines the length of a meter they could just as well have had it twice as long it would make nearly no difference. It would still be more practical and more precise than the imperial system.
Why is it more precise? Because it is determined by a single ruling body, because its properties can be based on unchangeable measurable properties of atomic particles AND artifacts created by the aforementioned ruling body AND certain aspects of the planet we live on, because its smallest unit is small enough that the differences in measurement of the aforementioned properties and artifacts are negligible in practical use.
On the other hand, inch, foot, yard, mile (all those different flavors of it) are traditional and archaic SELF-DESCRIPTIVE units that have up until recently varied from village to village, let alone country to country. Kings and queens used to sign a document declaring "exactly" how long an inch or a foot was - but they've never used an actual "yardstick" to determine the actual length of any. Or a prototype standard if you like it more like that. Same with the pounds and those other units that come out to 1276.386 of some other unit. An inch is still called "a thumb" in many non English speaking countries - because that is what it was based on. Width of an average thumb. You know... like the foot was based on an actual human "foot".
Why is it more practical? Cause it is simple. It is just increments of 10. 1, 10, 1000, 1000000... or 10^-3, 10^-2, 10^1, 10^2, 10^3... Scale it up or down it is always the same. You just move the decimal point. Just try expressing something like 2.356 inches in yards or feet by just moving a decimal point.
Also, another thing you can't do with pounds and inches. Make a cube that is exactly 10 centimeters (100 millimeters, 1 decimeter, 0.1 meter) long on each side. That cube will hold 1 kilogram of water. Which is also exactly 1 liter of water. Cool, right? Well, that is what you get when you actually take time to come up with a new measurement system that makes sense instead of just "determining" that it is "about that much".
Is 12 months too early to teach their remaining child about gun safety? Or should they wait until it grasps basic language and concepts like "bad" and "wrong"? When exactly does that happen? Obviously not at 3(2) years, or their daughter may would have been alive now.
Hide in the shadows and throw them at the burglars without showing yourself. On a plus side - they are silent so you won't disturb the neighbors. Just remember to buy a meat grinder or two so you can feed the corpses to your pet piranhas.
Cheyenne Alexis McKeehan of Norene, Tenn., shot herself Sunday night after her stepfather left his loaded Smith & Wesson handgun out on a table, Wilson County Sheriff Terry Ashe said.
Cheyenne's mother told police officers that the child was used to playing a shooting game with the Nintendo Wii video game console and likely confused the real gun with the realistic-looking black toy gun, the sheriff said.
Not his offspring. And I just love how the child's mother jumped to suggest the possibility that the kid confused the real gun with a toy - defending her man. And herself.
Cheyenne's stepfather, Douglas Cronberger, 32, owned a semi-automatic pistol that he normally kept in a secure location, out of the reach of Cheyenne and the couple's 1-year-old child, Ashe said. But after taking it out to investigate a possible prowler, Cronberger left it on a table and forgot about it, officials said.
When Cheyenne fired the gun, Ashe said, her mother, Tina Ann Cronberger, 32, was within three feet of her child. Cheyenne was pronounced dead on arrival at a local hospital.
You see officer, I was about to shoot someone lurking in the bushes. Turns out it was just the wind. So I left the gun on the coffee table. Just in case. Aaand... I forgot about it. And my wife is so used to our kids holding guns, she didn't even bother to move when her daughter picked it up. Don't worry. We will be more careful with the spare child. This one belongs to both of us. Dead one was my wife's.
The pieces can represent anything (battalions or regiments, for instance), so it makes perfect sense.
But then it would also make perfect sense to be able to combine two or more decimated companies into a battalion, while maintaining the experience and combat abilities. Also... combine companies into a battalion, battalions into regiments, regiments into armies. You know... as it is not a single tank (or a man) out there on that hex.
Also, turn your infantry or marines into air cavalry by combining them with helicopters. Make a decimated artillery unit into a "artillery support" bonus for your infantry or armor. Balance it out with experience bonuses and additional turns necessary for combining (training turns).
Try this. Note the huge difference between "decent" and "generic" PSUs. (At the bottom - "Recommended Minimum PSU Ratings") Remember to add additional hard-drive coolers, as well as case and motherboard coolers. And then add up to 30-40% more - once your coolers get jammed with dust and they start to draw more power. And summer heats kick in.
I've seen generic PSUs shutting down installed hard drives once you connect an external 2.5" portable drive. And they do it in a very disturbing "FUCK! MY DRIVE IS DYING!" way, with the drive in question clicking loudly trying to spin up repeatedly. Not a pretty sound.
Actually, that is how everything is done. Since about the time of industrial revolution.
You design for the best possible, then you cut that down to a cheaper version by saving on the number of components and "extras" that were intended to be a part of the package in the first place. Also, replace components with cheaper ones if possible.
Why sell a product worth X money for X money, when you can make a product worth X - Y and sell it for X, while marketing it like a product actually worth X. Which actually exists, but you sell it for X + Y.
You don't spend more to make better. You spend less to make cheap.
You want your identity to be secret - you NEVER had that. ID or no ID, every police officer in the world can stop you and request that you identify yourself. It is a routine and essential part of what police does. Having an ID just means that once he checks it he has no further reason to detain you unless you are breaking the law.
Privacy on the other hand means that you don't have identify yourself to everyone else unless you want to. It also means that you can call on countries laws for anything beyond simple ID check by a police officer. Things like 4th and 5th Amendment in the USA.
As for freedom... It is not a IS or IS NOT thing. It is a concept. An idea. You can be free while in chains and you can be a prisoner to an idea.
A piece of plastic with your name and description on it makes you no lees free or private than before. And you were never secret.
Motherboard and PSU. Don't try to save money on these two by buying cheaper.
Everything else is determined only by how much money you have to spend. Also, everything else can be upgraded/replaced without having to replace other components.
Pay close attention to PSUs 12V amperage - don't buy cheap Chinese ones that have hundreds of theoretical Watts but give only about 20 Amps on 12V. 12V is for all of your coolers, hard-drives (including external ones), optical drives and anything else you attach to it that has a motor or movable parts. Buy ULTRA or Corsair (if you can't afford a ULTRA).
With motherboards, pay extra for the Deluxe or Pro model - however they call it. Compare it to the "regular" version of the motherboard. If it looks almost the same with maybe another PCI or USB slot added - the pricier one is the one that actually works as intended/advertised. The cheaper "regular" model probably couldn't quite cut it, so it got downgraded from the original intended specs.
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It is not a documentary.
Once again, the error in the summary has managed to misinform and confuse thousands of Slashdotters.
From TFA:
A new German TV movie tells the story of a man whose family life was destroyed after joining the Church of Scientology.
The drama, which is based on a true story, was filmed in secret to prevent the organization taking legal action against the project.
.
.
The drama will air on March 31 under the title "Until Nothing Is Left."
This will be the first German feature film about Scientology, the first drama to use the controversial belief system as evening entertainment.
So, they are not EXACTLY "just being candid".
On the other hand, just because something is a documentary, that does not mean that it is true.
See Operation Lune (Dark Side of the Moon) for an excellent example of how to twist actual events and interviews out of a contest in order to present "your version of the truth".
Wouldn't that kinda defeat the purpose of being a Buddhist?
Kinda like a nihilist having a purpose in life?
Or like an angry Jedi?
Or mushy chips?
Cause they are Vulcans and not Ferengi?
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Being just a concept so far, I believe that it should be referred to as ideaware.
Or would that be iDeaware?
Features
Near Field Communication (NFC)
NFCIP-1 and ISO 18092 compliant
Supports contactless payment
Peer to peer communication
Data exchange speed up to 424 kbps
Radio Frequency Identification (RFID)
ISO 14443A/B compliant
ISO 15693 compliant
Supports NXP MIFARE®
Supports NXP MIFARE DESFire ®
Supports I-CODE® SLI
Supports Texas Instrument Tag-it(TM) HF-I
Read, write and search 13.56 MHz HF RFID tags
SmartCard
Integrated SAM (Secure Access Module)
SmartCard compliant JCOP OS
NXP MIFARE® Classic 1K tag emulation
iPhone
Made for iPod (MFI) accessory
Supports iPhone 3G or iPhone 3GS
Charge iPhone and iTune Sync via mini-USB
Compact and Reliable Snap-On Design
Extends iPhone length by 16.5mm (0.65")
62.1 x 26.5 x 12.3 mm (2.4" x 1.0" x 0.5")
Available in black or white color
Read/Write Range
Up to 4.0 cm (1.5") for NFC
Up to 5.0 cm (2.0") for ISO 14443A/B
Up to 6.0 cm (2.5") for ISO 15693
Range depends on tag configuration, orientation
and environment
Low Power Consumption
90 mA (typical) RFID Read/Write mode
5 mA (typical) Contactless Payment mode
Features and specifications subject to change. V0.4
Meter and the metric system are human attempts to bring some order into the chaos of the imperial system.
As there is a single ruling body that determines the length of a meter they could just as well have had it twice as long it would make nearly no difference.
It would still be more practical and more precise than the imperial system.
Why is it more precise?
Because it is determined by a single ruling body, because its properties can be based on unchangeable measurable properties of atomic particles AND artifacts created by the aforementioned ruling body AND certain aspects of the planet we live on, because its smallest unit is small enough that the differences in measurement of the aforementioned properties and artifacts are negligible in practical use.
On the other hand, inch, foot, yard, mile (all those different flavors of it) are traditional and archaic SELF-DESCRIPTIVE units that have up until recently varied from village to village, let alone country to country.
Kings and queens used to sign a document declaring "exactly" how long an inch or a foot was - but they've never used an actual "yardstick" to determine the actual length of any.
Or a prototype standard if you like it more like that.
Same with the pounds and those other units that come out to 1276.386 of some other unit.
An inch is still called "a thumb" in many non English speaking countries - because that is what it was based on. Width of an average thumb.
You know... like the foot was based on an actual human "foot".
Why is it more practical?
Cause it is simple. It is just increments of 10.
1, 10, 1000, 1000000... or 10^-3, 10^-2, 10^1, 10^2, 10^3...
Scale it up or down it is always the same. You just move the decimal point.
Just try expressing something like 2.356 inches in yards or feet by just moving a decimal point.
Also, another thing you can't do with pounds and inches.
Make a cube that is exactly 10 centimeters (100 millimeters, 1 decimeter, 0.1 meter) long on each side.
That cube will hold 1 kilogram of water. Which is also exactly 1 liter of water.
Cool, right?
Well, that is what you get when you actually take time to come up with a new measurement system that makes sense instead of just "determining" that it is "about that much".
Citizens of any country with huge inflation very soon find their coins utterly useless.
It is easier to print zeros on paper.
It's just that he finds the input devices available... well... quaint.
I'm sure I will be notice if gay-rapers start going door-to-door before they ring my doorbell.
The one with the heart is just a distraction.
Look out for his friends with rocks, water, fire and air. Or their bodybuilding buddy. From what I hear, he has a military background.
What happens if you don't have both hands free so you can chamber a round while fending off an assailant with the other hand?
Use your teeth to cock the gun.
Is 12 months too early to teach their remaining child about gun safety?
Or should they wait until it grasps basic language and concepts like "bad" and "wrong"?
When exactly does that happen?
Obviously not at 3(2) years, or their daughter may would have been alive now.
No shurikens?
Hide in the shadows and throw them at the burglars without showing yourself.
On a plus side - they are silent so you won't disturb the neighbors.
Just remember to buy a meat grinder or two so you can feed the corpses to your pet piranhas.
You're gonna die from a hearth attack or a stroke. Possibly cancer.
Stress does that to ya.
Cheyenne Alexis McKeehan of Norene, Tenn., shot herself Sunday night after her stepfather left his loaded Smith & Wesson handgun out on a table, Wilson County Sheriff Terry Ashe said.
Cheyenne's mother told police officers that the child was used to playing a shooting game with the Nintendo Wii video game console and likely confused the real gun with the realistic-looking black toy gun, the sheriff said.
Not his offspring.
And I just love how the child's mother jumped to suggest the possibility that the kid confused the real gun with a toy - defending her man. And herself.
Cheyenne's stepfather, Douglas Cronberger, 32, owned a semi-automatic pistol that he normally kept in a secure location, out of the reach of Cheyenne and the couple's 1-year-old child, Ashe said.
But after taking it out to investigate a possible prowler, Cronberger left it on a table and forgot about it, officials said.
When Cheyenne fired the gun, Ashe said, her mother, Tina Ann Cronberger, 32, was within three feet of her child.
Cheyenne was pronounced dead on arrival at a local hospital.
You see officer, I was about to shoot someone lurking in the bushes. Turns out it was just the wind. So I left the gun on the coffee table. Just in case. Aaand... I forgot about it.
And my wife is so used to our kids holding guns, she didn't even bother to move when her daughter picked it up.
Don't worry. We will be more careful with the spare child.
This one belongs to both of us.
Dead one was my wife's.
http://bwnt.businessweek.com/interactive_reports/philanthropy_individual/
The pieces can represent anything (battalions or regiments, for instance), so it makes perfect sense.
But then it would also make perfect sense to be able to combine two or more decimated companies into a battalion, while maintaining the experience and combat abilities.
Also... combine companies into a battalion, battalions into regiments, regiments into armies.
You know... as it is not a single tank (or a man) out there on that hex.
Also, turn your infantry or marines into air cavalry by combining them with helicopters. Make a decimated artillery unit into a "artillery support" bonus for your infantry or armor.
Balance it out with experience bonuses and additional turns necessary for combining (training turns).
Try this. Note the huge difference between "decent" and "generic" PSUs. (At the bottom - "Recommended Minimum PSU Ratings")
Remember to add additional hard-drive coolers, as well as case and motherboard coolers.
And then add up to 30-40% more - once your coolers get jammed with dust and they start to draw more power. And summer heats kick in.
I've seen generic PSUs shutting down installed hard drives once you connect an external 2.5" portable drive.
And they do it in a very disturbing "FUCK! MY DRIVE IS DYING!" way, with the drive in question clicking loudly trying to spin up repeatedly.
Not a pretty sound.
You can't handle it.
Read the subject again. I said "research". Not "go in the shop and buy the most expensive one".
Hmm... Did fine for me.
But... I do prefer Corsairs myself. Somehow, it just doesn't feel right to me to have the motherboard powered by a modular cable.
Actually, that is how everything is done. Since about the time of industrial revolution.
You design for the best possible, then you cut that down to a cheaper version by saving on the number of components and "extras" that were intended to be a part of the package in the first place.
Also, replace components with cheaper ones if possible.
Why sell a product worth X money for X money, when you can make a product worth X - Y and sell it for X, while marketing it like a product actually worth X.
Which actually exists, but you sell it for X + Y.
You don't spend more to make better. You spend less to make cheap.
What you are thinking of is secrecy, not privacy.
You want your identity to be secret - you NEVER had that.
ID or no ID, every police officer in the world can stop you and request that you identify yourself. It is a routine and essential part of what police does.
Having an ID just means that once he checks it he has no further reason to detain you unless you are breaking the law.
Privacy on the other hand means that you don't have identify yourself to everyone else unless you want to.
It also means that you can call on countries laws for anything beyond simple ID check by a police officer. Things like 4th and 5th Amendment in the USA.
As for freedom...
It is not a IS or IS NOT thing. It is a concept. An idea.
You can be free while in chains and you can be a prisoner to an idea.
A piece of plastic with your name and description on it makes you no lees free or private than before.
And you were never secret.
Motherboard and PSU. Don't try to save money on these two by buying cheaper.
Everything else is determined only by how much money you have to spend.
Also, everything else can be upgraded/replaced without having to replace other components.
Pay close attention to PSUs 12V amperage - don't buy cheap Chinese ones that have hundreds of theoretical Watts but give only about 20 Amps on 12V.
12V is for all of your coolers, hard-drives (including external ones), optical drives and anything else you attach to it that has a motor or movable parts.
Buy ULTRA or Corsair (if you can't afford a ULTRA).
With motherboards, pay extra for the Deluxe or Pro model - however they call it.
Compare it to the "regular" version of the motherboard.
If it looks almost the same with maybe another PCI or USB slot added - the pricier one is the one that actually works as intended/advertised.
The cheaper "regular" model probably couldn't quite cut it, so it got downgraded from the original intended specs.
I got the reference, didn't I?