I'm not surprised by GM's failure to make Saab recover. After just rebadging a couple GM cars with the Saab name...
People know when they're getting taken for a ride. I just don't understand why GM doesn't get it. You can't just buy a bunch of brand names and slap the brands on GM shit and expect it to sell. Consumers are smarter than that.
You're wrong sir. With open standards, any company can bid on projects. If their goal though is to secure future business by locking down their customer to only use their software, that's where I have a problem.
Microsoft is perfectly free to write native import/export functionality into MS Office to enable ODF file support. If they did that though, their customers would find a seamless migration from MS Office products to competitors like Lotus Symphony, OpenOffice, etc.
Microsoft and other vendors can cry all they like. They don't want to compete on fairness. They want their customers locked down so they don't have a choice.
This is something MS pulled off with the office format. Sure, the XML schema might be open but the binary blob data representing some of the elements is still closed.
Open standards need be truly open, meaning easily accessible, free of cost, readable by anyone and patent unencumbered.
As to the submitters question, the way to help is to be open and honest about the existing softwares capabilities and when the opponents speak about software inadequacy, keep your mind open and listen. There are ways in which some closed source programs are better than their OSS equivalents. For example - there is no ProE or Solidworks competition that is OSS. Not even close when you take into account the CAM, interference checking, flow analysis, strain modeling modules. If people want governments to take OSS software and standards seriously, they themselves have to be serious about making their software and their standards encompass the functionality of the status quo.
Dummy. I read the article. And the entire 27 page affidavit from his original arrest.
He didn't physically, forcibly rape them like you would imagine from a Law & Order episode. He convinced them to sell their eggs, and through deception and manipulation got them to agree to allow him to "examine" them with fingers and dildos to see if the eggs are healthy.
Yes, he is a manipulative, conniving person. How does that compare to forcibly raping someone? I heard of a case online where a guy raped his 10 year old nephew in the ass over the course of a year and only got 80 months in prison. That's not even 7 years, compared to this guys 44 years.
Why the disparity? Is manipulating a 17 and 19 year old into letting you finger them more, or less worse then taking a 10 year old and raping him forcibly?
I'm not defending either of them or saying what they did was fine. But 44 years? Really, that's fair? I'm not seeing it.
By far, this is the most annoying thing about DVD's. So-called "acceptable user operations". The DVD decides what you get to do or not do, including watching a bunch of previews for movies you don't want to see. I could understand this happening once, the first time you watch it. But really, its an insult to avid movie fans with movie libraries. Forcing them to watch ads for movies that came out 10 fucking years ago is ridiculous.
I never said it wasn't rape. I'm saying his desire wasn't completely unnatural. His actions are still inexcusable, but the punishment doesn't fit the crime given the far far lighter sentences the majority of rapists have received for similar crimes. In fact, the odds of a family member going to prison for first offense criminal sexual contact with a minor is moderately low. Plea deals are often reached.
In this case the offender used manipulation instead of force, meaning I would consider them a non-violent offender.
Consider an alternative scenario. A drug dealer kills a rival and pleas down to manslaughter and gets 5 years in prison. Next scenario: Non-violent possession of 1 gram of LSD with intent to distribute-federal mandatory minimum sentence of 60 months. Compared to 44 years for a manipulative rapist? Sentences don't fit the punishment and I can accept that. But when the sentence is so disparately harsher than the crime, that strikes me as unfair and unconstitutional. But really, who would go to bat for the fair justice of a rapist?
I've seen a lot of responses here regarding our instinctual nature to avoid sexual relations with family. You likely missed one relevant detail, as did many others.
She wasn't his stepdaughter. She wasn't even related to him. She was a foster child whom he had not known all his life. She was also 17, on the brink of legal adulthood.
That doesn't justify what he did, and I wouldn't even try to justify it. I'm simply saying his harsh sentence is far beyond what we give for other much more dangerous and heinous crimes like murder and drug distribution.
Sex is used as a basis to sell products across the nation every day. The media and advertisers have rammed it down our throats that beauty and sexual attractiveness mean being a skinny 19 year old girl. Whats the difference between a 19 and 17 year old girl? Essentially nothing on average. Our society has chosen numbers arbitrarily as a dividing line between those who can have sex legally.
Mix that with a society that consumes copious amounts of growth hormones in milk and meat products and has girls reaching physical sexual maturity at younger and younger ages and you're bound to have men attracted to younger and younger girls. It's a natural conclusion. For most of human history, sex, marriage and childbirth all followed closely after sexual maturity. Even now, some backwards countries like Saudi Arabia allow child marriage before puberty, but I agree this is wrong.
What this man did was wrong. I'm not trying to deny that. I'm merely saying that 44 years is a lot for succumbing to a desire that advertisers have implanted in his head. This man needs treatment. Incarceration won't give him that.
Additionally, what kind of idiot do you have to be to allow your stepfather to use a dildo on you to see if your eggs are healthy.... Jesus Christ what a moron.
3.4 magnitude is really small. Any significant structural damage is likely the fault of the design of those structures. Any building, whether in a tectonically active region or not should be designed and built to meet a minimum standard for safety. I don't know where that line should be, but in this case I would say the engineer shouldn't be culpable. $9M is a lot of damages for such a tiny earthquake.
I respectfully disagree. After living in the pacific northwest and experiencing numerous earthquakes firsthand, I can say with some authority that any structure built in a tectonically active region that cannot safely handle a 3.4 magnitude earthquake was built improperly.
There were several 3.5ish earthquakes in Oregon where I lived over the last 20 years and as far as I know, broken picture frames were the extent of the damage. Geothermal energy production only makes sense in places where volcanic or tectonic activity is likely. It's not without risk either.
It seems obvious that there was no intentional earthquake caused, but that was the natural result of fracturing the fault and 3.4 hardly sounds noteworthy. However, more detailed seismic study seems warranted before moving forward with any such project in the future.
Exactly. The video I saw started with the police kicking and punching the homeless man while he was on the ground. Their aggression wasn't to overcome resistance, it was retaliatory.
This is much akin to police using tasers in situations that don't warrant physical force at all. It's not right and can have deadly consequences for taser victims.
Exactly. Or more accurately, assaulting an officer means trying to defend yourself from aggressive police.
I read a story about a homeless mean getting beat by cops for resisting arrest. The only charge? Resisting arrest of course. They had no reason to harass him in the first place, other than to give him a hard time for being homeless on public property.
Wouldn't a knock sensor be able to tell the PCM when to back off the compression ratio? The PCM could maintain short and long term trim tables of compression ratios mapped to throttle angle. Some engines already use these sensors for short and long term spark ignition timing advance tables. As for recognizing the fuel type, unless it can rely on a knock sensor, I can't see any way to detect what the fuel type is other than some easily detectable property(electrical resistance maybe? density?).
What I'm curious about is how fast can it change the compression ratio? Is it throttle by wire? If not and you mash on the gas from a dead stop, does it try to combust a few cycles at 50:1 compression? If so, the engine will not last long. It will break parts quicker than you can say "cast aluminum piston".
More interestingly, why were they shooting this off next to Norway? Maybe they were hoping it was so cold outside all the Norwegians would be inside and wouldn't notice...
2. Vista's UAC was a good idea, but they botched it badly. I can say this with some authority since I have been a long time Vista user.
My list of gripes with UAC is long, but here's the short list:
Explorer notifies you that some actions require administrative rights BEFORE UAC pops up. This causes the user to be prompted multiple times for the same operation.
UAC windows are pretty useless. It doesn't give you much information about what the application is trying to do - only that it needs admin rights.
That's my condensed short list, but it hits the high notes. I really wish Vista Home Premium came with the Local Security Policy snap-in so I could alter some things in there. I bet that would make UAC less annoying.
I like how Ubuntu manages admin rights with respect to making configuration changes and installing software. Its dead simple to configure too.
I was quite surprised that my new Nokia E71x didn't have that. I'm still pissed I didn't spend extra money to get the unbranded E71.
The message interface is quite a clusterfuck. It tries to combine all my messaging needs into one application(including SMS, MMS and email). There is no threaded or IM-style SMS interface. Selecting multiple messages for deletion, forward, w/e is really a pain in the ass.
Here's an idea. Feel free to agree, disagree, tear it apart, whatever...
Why not have a kernel network access logging module with a userland process that periodically reports to users which programs are accessing the TCP/IP network? Say once a week or once a month or something. The number of programs that do this for many users is quite low. Probably Firefox, Thunderbird, Opera, uTorrent, a short list of other programs. Users then have an opportunity to ignore those programs on future reports. Users now have a good idea if there are changes to their system that might affect security.
There would still be opportunity for malware to access the internet, but users would either 1) notice it or 2) it would make the malware work in very complicated, noticeable ways(like uploading data to a website using a URL).
Reports so far seem to indicate it does not directly promote ligament growth. Your body naturally increases ligament size as muscles grow, but this takes more time than it takes to grow muscle mass. People who start rigorous weight training are more prone to ligament damage than are long time weight lifters, for among other reasons, due to ligament damage.
This drug may improve ligament strength as a side effect of increased muscle strength, but in the short term may increase the likelihood of damage to users.
They do, but you have to consider the greatly increased strength needed just to move the weight of their bodies. Even this drug will not increase ligament strength, so it may have its dangers for obese users as well. They may end up more prone to strains and hyperextension than a lighter person.
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I'm not surprised by GM's failure to make Saab recover. After just rebadging a couple GM cars with the Saab name...
People know when they're getting taken for a ride. I just don't understand why GM doesn't get it. You can't just buy a bunch of brand names and slap the brands on GM shit and expect it to sell. Consumers are smarter than that.
You're wrong sir. With open standards, any company can bid on projects. If their goal though is to secure future business by locking down their customer to only use their software, that's where I have a problem.
Microsoft is perfectly free to write native import/export functionality into MS Office to enable ODF file support. If they did that though, their customers would find a seamless migration from MS Office products to competitors like Lotus Symphony, OpenOffice, etc.
Microsoft and other vendors can cry all they like. They don't want to compete on fairness. They want their customers locked down so they don't have a choice.
Sadly, most governments choose option 2 by default.
This is something MS pulled off with the office format. Sure, the XML schema might be open but the binary blob data representing some of the elements is still closed.
Open standards need be truly open, meaning easily accessible, free of cost, readable by anyone and patent unencumbered.
As to the submitters question, the way to help is to be open and honest about the existing softwares capabilities and when the opponents speak about software inadequacy, keep your mind open and listen. There are ways in which some closed source programs are better than their OSS equivalents. For example - there is no ProE or Solidworks competition that is OSS. Not even close when you take into account the CAM, interference checking, flow analysis, strain modeling modules. If people want governments to take OSS software and standards seriously, they themselves have to be serious about making their software and their standards encompass the functionality of the status quo.
Dummy. I read the article. And the entire 27 page affidavit from his original arrest.
He didn't physically, forcibly rape them like you would imagine from a Law & Order episode. He convinced them to sell their eggs, and through deception and manipulation got them to agree to allow him to "examine" them with fingers and dildos to see if the eggs are healthy.
Yes, he is a manipulative, conniving person. How does that compare to forcibly raping someone? I heard of a case online where a guy raped his 10 year old nephew in the ass over the course of a year and only got 80 months in prison. That's not even 7 years, compared to this guys 44 years.
Why the disparity? Is manipulating a 17 and 19 year old into letting you finger them more, or less worse then taking a 10 year old and raping him forcibly?
I'm not defending either of them or saying what they did was fine. But 44 years? Really, that's fair? I'm not seeing it.
Not really. Pedophilia is attraction to prepubescent children. This man raped a 17 year old girl. It's not the same at all.
By far, this is the most annoying thing about DVD's. So-called "acceptable user operations". The DVD decides what you get to do or not do, including watching a bunch of previews for movies you don't want to see. I could understand this happening once, the first time you watch it. But really, its an insult to avid movie fans with movie libraries. Forcing them to watch ads for movies that came out 10 fucking years ago is ridiculous.
I never said it wasn't rape. I'm saying his desire wasn't completely unnatural. His actions are still inexcusable, but the punishment doesn't fit the crime given the far far lighter sentences the majority of rapists have received for similar crimes. In fact, the odds of a family member going to prison for first offense criminal sexual contact with a minor is moderately low. Plea deals are often reached.
In this case the offender used manipulation instead of force, meaning I would consider them a non-violent offender.
Consider an alternative scenario. A drug dealer kills a rival and pleas down to manslaughter and gets 5 years in prison. Next scenario: Non-violent possession of 1 gram of LSD with intent to distribute-federal mandatory minimum sentence of 60 months. Compared to 44 years for a manipulative rapist? Sentences don't fit the punishment and I can accept that. But when the sentence is so disparately harsher than the crime, that strikes me as unfair and unconstitutional. But really, who would go to bat for the fair justice of a rapist?
I've seen a lot of responses here regarding our instinctual nature to avoid sexual relations with family. You likely missed one relevant detail, as did many others.
She wasn't his stepdaughter. She wasn't even related to him. She was a foster child whom he had not known all his life. She was also 17, on the brink of legal adulthood.
That doesn't justify what he did, and I wouldn't even try to justify it. I'm simply saying his harsh sentence is far beyond what we give for other much more dangerous and heinous crimes like murder and drug distribution.
Sex is used as a basis to sell products across the nation every day. The media and advertisers have rammed it down our throats that beauty and sexual attractiveness mean being a skinny 19 year old girl. Whats the difference between a 19 and 17 year old girl? Essentially nothing on average. Our society has chosen numbers arbitrarily as a dividing line between those who can have sex legally.
Mix that with a society that consumes copious amounts of growth hormones in milk and meat products and has girls reaching physical sexual maturity at younger and younger ages and you're bound to have men attracted to younger and younger girls. It's a natural conclusion. For most of human history, sex, marriage and childbirth all followed closely after sexual maturity. Even now, some backwards countries like Saudi Arabia allow child marriage before puberty, but I agree this is wrong.
What this man did was wrong. I'm not trying to deny that. I'm merely saying that 44 years is a lot for succumbing to a desire that advertisers have implanted in his head. This man needs treatment. Incarceration won't give him that.
Additionally, what kind of idiot do you have to be to allow your stepfather to use a dildo on you to see if your eggs are healthy.... Jesus Christ what a moron.
Indeed, but I think more noteworthy than this copyright claim is that he was sentenced to 44 years for rape.
Seems excessive doesn't it? I read the affidavit describing what he did exactly and it seems very predatory and wrong, but 44 years is a lot...
Your wit is illuminating.
I love not too far from the great lakes. If there is a truly epic earthquake, I'm a little worried the lake will run me down and drown me.
3.4 magnitude is really small. Any significant structural damage is likely the fault of the design of those structures. Any building, whether in a tectonically active region or not should be designed and built to meet a minimum standard for safety. I don't know where that line should be, but in this case I would say the engineer shouldn't be culpable. $9M is a lot of damages for such a tiny earthquake.
I respectfully disagree. After living in the pacific northwest and experiencing numerous earthquakes firsthand, I can say with some authority that any structure built in a tectonically active region that cannot safely handle a 3.4 magnitude earthquake was built improperly.
There were several 3.5ish earthquakes in Oregon where I lived over the last 20 years and as far as I know, broken picture frames were the extent of the damage. Geothermal energy production only makes sense in places where volcanic or tectonic activity is likely. It's not without risk either.
It seems obvious that there was no intentional earthquake caused, but that was the natural result of fracturing the fault and 3.4 hardly sounds noteworthy. However, more detailed seismic study seems warranted before moving forward with any such project in the future.
Exactly. The video I saw started with the police kicking and punching the homeless man while he was on the ground. Their aggression wasn't to overcome resistance, it was retaliatory.
This is much akin to police using tasers in situations that don't warrant physical force at all. It's not right and can have deadly consequences for taser victims.
Exactly. Or more accurately, assaulting an officer means trying to defend yourself from aggressive police.
I read a story about a homeless mean getting beat by cops for resisting arrest. The only charge? Resisting arrest of course. They had no reason to harass him in the first place, other than to give him a hard time for being homeless on public property.
Wouldn't a knock sensor be able to tell the PCM when to back off the compression ratio? The PCM could maintain short and long term trim tables of compression ratios mapped to throttle angle. Some engines already use these sensors for short and long term spark ignition timing advance tables. As for recognizing the fuel type, unless it can rely on a knock sensor, I can't see any way to detect what the fuel type is other than some easily detectable property(electrical resistance maybe? density?).
What I'm curious about is how fast can it change the compression ratio? Is it throttle by wire? If not and you mash on the gas from a dead stop, does it try to combust a few cycles at 50:1 compression? If so, the engine will not last long. It will break parts quicker than you can say "cast aluminum piston".
More interestingly, why were they shooting this off next to Norway? Maybe they were hoping it was so cold outside all the Norwegians would be inside and wouldn't notice...
What exactly was Russia shooting at?
1. Anna Kornikova naked? Links plz.
2. Vista's UAC was a good idea, but they botched it badly. I can say this with some authority since I have been a long time Vista user.
My list of gripes with UAC is long, but here's the short list:
That's my condensed short list, but it hits the high notes. I really wish Vista Home Premium came with the Local Security Policy snap-in so I could alter some things in there. I bet that would make UAC less annoying.
I like how Ubuntu manages admin rights with respect to making configuration changes and installing software. Its dead simple to configure too.
I was quite surprised that my new Nokia E71x didn't have that. I'm still pissed I didn't spend extra money to get the unbranded E71.
The message interface is quite a clusterfuck. It tries to combine all my messaging needs into one application(including SMS, MMS and email). There is no threaded or IM-style SMS interface. Selecting multiple messages for deletion, forward, w/e is really a pain in the ass.
I should have gotten an Android phone....
Here's an idea. Feel free to agree, disagree, tear it apart, whatever...
Why not have a kernel network access logging module with a userland process that periodically reports to users which programs are accessing the TCP/IP network? Say once a week or once a month or something. The number of programs that do this for many users is quite low. Probably Firefox, Thunderbird, Opera, uTorrent, a short list of other programs. Users then have an opportunity to ignore those programs on future reports. Users now have a good idea if there are changes to their system that might affect security.
There would still be opportunity for malware to access the internet, but users would either 1) notice it or 2) it would make the malware work in very complicated, noticeable ways(like uploading data to a website using a URL).
Reports so far seem to indicate it does not directly promote ligament growth. Your body naturally increases ligament size as muscles grow, but this takes more time than it takes to grow muscle mass. People who start rigorous weight training are more prone to ligament damage than are long time weight lifters, for among other reasons, due to ligament damage.
This drug may improve ligament strength as a side effect of increased muscle strength, but in the short term may increase the likelihood of damage to users.
I had problems with decrypting emails. Yes, I was using the GPG binary from their website.
Oddly enough, enigmail works flawlessly on Linux.
They do, but you have to consider the greatly increased strength needed just to move the weight of their bodies. Even this drug will not increase ligament strength, so it may have its dangers for obese users as well. They may end up more prone to strains and hyperextension than a lighter person.