Doesn't anyone know what a pinhole camera looks like?
Given that a pinhole camera is basically an enclosed volume with literally a pinhole at one end and film inside at the other end, how are you going to look at anything and say "Oh, OK, that's a pinhole camera" ?
yeah I know that reading the TFA helps. But this little gem says it all - this kid is a huge trouble maker and has been suspended before. Look at the crap he has pulled:
Two of the disciplinary actions this year were in-school suspensions for referring to a classmate as black and bringing his favorite book to school: "The Big Book of Knowledge."
“He loves that book. They were studying the solar system and he took it to school. He thought his teacher would be impressed,” Steward said.
But the teacher learned the popular children’s encyclopedia had a section on pregnancy, depicting a pregnant woman in an illustration, he explained.
What they meant is that they like casual sex. "No Strings Attached", usually abbreviated "nsa", is, at least according to wikipedia, "an expression for casual sex often used in personal ads."
Well given that the NSA is fucking the country over with NSA like behaviors, then confusing the NSA with NSA is appropriate.
The end result of too much NSA NSA is that other countries look at businesses in the USA and say "eeewe.. I'm not going to bed with you now.. look at all that NSA history you have".
After struggling with VirtualBox for a while, I broke down and bought VMWare.
I've never had any real problems with running VBox under OSX. I used to run VMware workstation on a windows laptop, but I always felt that the VMware OSX offerings were a lot less featured than the windows products. That, the VMware workstation licensing costs and the fact that the VBox application is basically the same on Windows and OSX drove me to VBox.
If I had the money lying around I would use VMware, but VBox does the minimum of what I need it to do.
From an economics viewpoint, I'd agree with the wacko talk show host. I don't think the national government shouldn't be in the Telco business.
If the telcos are national, then you need a national level body that can deal with their shit. A bunch of jumped up states aren't going to able to protect the interests of the th national population.
For a lot of stuff, we just get angry if the government spends money to build/repair a bridge.
Yesterday I was listening to a right wing talk show host on the radio who was letting us all know what he thought government should be for, and how the US government was so crap. The first bullet point on his list was "starting wars", the second was "Protecting us from bad guys".
the economies of scale due to the US population density distribution and having to lay new mediums to connect made it not economical.
This is just total ignorant BS. I have pointed out before that Tokyo has a way smaller population density that NYC, yet Tokyo shits all over NYC for access speed. The market in NYC has a need that is not being fulfilled and lack of population density is not the reason why.
Not requiring an "encryption chip" itself shouldn't be something we're proud of
The funny thing is that last year I my latest Amex card came with a chip, and so far the only place that I have actually used it is at Walmart of all places.
And when I did use it, the attendant came running over and tried to convince me that I needed to swipe the card rather than poke into the chip-reading hole - even though when I first swiped it, the POS terminal recognized that I had a chipped card and told me that I needed to poke the card into the chip-reading hole.
You can get "trusted traveler" status in order to reduce the time it takes to cross the border. Less checks, faster throughput - what's not to love? Even the drug smugglers love it as they have been targeting such travelers and attaching packets of drugs via magnets to the bottoms of said travelers cars. And to make it really helpful for the smugglers, the DEA used to issue decals for the windshield - thus making it really easy to target the travelers.
I see your M-1 Tank and raise you asymmetrical warfare.
The out-gunned side takes more casualties but always wins in the end...
It all depends if the non-outgunned side cares about pacifying or wiping out the outgunned side. Why did the japs surrender when only a comparatively small number died at Hiroshima and Nagasaki? They were outgunned and could have taken on asymmetrical warfare and cause all kinds of hell for the allies.
Anyway, the M-1 was a facetious reference to the fact that the military has an assorted range of larger and more deadly toys than an AR-15
Marine infantrymen are trained how to disable tanks. They are aren't armed with much beyond the AR-15.
Aaaaannnd what side of the battle you think they will be on? You know, after having sworn oaths etc, and a command structure that can say "bang! you're dead" for not obeying orders?
Or do you consider that every ex-miltary person has a raging libertarian anti-government hard-on? And want to kill their former squad mates?
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Doesn't anyone know what a pinhole camera looks like?
Given that a pinhole camera is basically an enclosed volume with literally a pinhole at one end and film inside at the other end, how are you going to look at anything and say "Oh, OK, that's a pinhole camera" ?
Fuck off.
And this isn't even on Beta
who cares about the weapon.
Remember this gem from 2013? Student Suspended For Pop-Tart Gun, Josh Welch, Files Appeal With Maryland County School System
As someone else pointed out, the punishment needs to match the actual crime.
Here in Europe everybody would have laughed their pants off.
Assuming their pants were on in the first place.
yeah I know that reading the TFA helps. But this little gem says it all - this kid is a huge trouble maker and has been suspended before. Look at the crap he has pulled:
Two of the disciplinary actions this year were in-school suspensions for referring to a classmate as black and bringing his favorite book to school: "The Big Book of Knowledge."
“He loves that book. They were studying the solar system and he took it to school. He thought his teacher would be impressed,” Steward said.
But the teacher learned the popular children’s encyclopedia had a section on pregnancy, depicting a pregnant woman in an illustration, he explained.
Seeing that this is Texas he should have just said that "God will strike down the unbeliever" and left it at that.
I'd love to see this zero tolerance policy come up against religious freedom.
This is the worst of what could be invented in robotics.
You think that's bad? Wait until they start watching old twilight zone episodes and start writing books with titles like "To serve man".
What they meant is that they like casual sex. "No Strings Attached", usually abbreviated "nsa", is, at least according to wikipedia, "an expression for casual sex often used in personal ads."
Well given that the NSA is fucking the country over with NSA like behaviors, then confusing the NSA with NSA is appropriate.
The end result of too much NSA NSA is that other countries look at businesses in the USA and say "eeewe .. I'm not going to bed with you now .. look at all that NSA history you have".
After struggling with VirtualBox for a while, I broke down and bought VMWare.
I've never had any real problems with running VBox under OSX. I used to run VMware workstation on a windows laptop, but I always felt that the VMware OSX offerings were a lot less featured than the windows products. That, the VMware workstation licensing costs and the fact that the VBox application is basically the same on Windows and OSX drove me to VBox.
If I had the money lying around I would use VMware, but VBox does the minimum of what I need it to do.
From an economics viewpoint, I'd agree with the wacko talk show host. I don't think the national government shouldn't be in the Telco business.
If the telcos are national, then you need a national level body that can deal with their shit. A bunch of jumped up states aren't going to able to protect the interests of the th national population.
For a lot of stuff, we just get angry if the government spends money to build/repair a bridge.
Yesterday I was listening to a right wing talk show host on the radio who was letting us all know what he thought government should be for, and how the US government was so crap. The first bullet point on his list was "starting wars", the second was "Protecting us from bad guys".
the economies of scale due to the US population density distribution and having to lay new mediums to connect made it not economical.
This is just total ignorant BS. I have pointed out before that Tokyo has a way smaller population density that NYC, yet Tokyo shits all over NYC for access speed. The market in NYC has a need that is not being fulfilled and lack of population density is not the reason why.
Not requiring an "encryption chip" itself shouldn't be something we're proud of
The funny thing is that last year I my latest Amex card came with a chip, and so far the only place that I have actually used it is at Walmart of all places.
And when I did use it, the attendant came running over and tried to convince me that I needed to swipe the card rather than poke into the chip-reading hole - even though when I first swiped it, the POS terminal recognized that I had a chipped card and told me that I needed to poke the card into the chip-reading hole.
The mythbusters need to test this now!
Jamie Wants a Big Boom.
(Heard off-camera after some tests had been performed to see how noteworthy an ATM segment would be)
Where's the kaboom? There was supposed to be an earth-shattering kaboom!
How come an iPad is a luxury, but a $700 smart phone isn't?
I make perfectly fine phone calls on my old RAZR 3
So it's actually already been fixed. All that's needed here is for some distributions to push the fix out.
But .. but now it has a CVE number and everything - so it must be scary
c'mon guys...we *have* to start coming up with better names for products...
"Vivaldi"
Hey .. don't you know that this is actually the first of a suite of 4 programs .. they'll be one for each season.
And any pretense of the 4th amendment no longer being completely shat upon is pretty much gone.
This was already establish by the 100 mile border zone - which conveniently also covers pretty well all of the US population.
The Constitution in the 100-Mile Border Zone
You can get "trusted traveler" status in order to reduce the time it takes to cross the border. Less checks, faster throughput - what's not to love? Even the drug smugglers love it as they have been targeting such travelers and attaching packets of drugs via magnets to the bottoms of said travelers cars. And to make it really helpful for the smugglers, the DEA used to issue decals for the windshield - thus making it really easy to target the travelers.
Smugglers using unwitting drivers to carry drugs from Mexico
Also forgot to mention Kent State
(Damn I wish /. would allow you to add onto posts)
In fact we are taught to disobey unlawful orders.
This is getting off-topic, but was the internment of the Japanese-Americans a lawful or unlawful order?
I see your M-1 Tank and raise you asymmetrical warfare.
The out-gunned side takes more casualties but always wins in the end...
It all depends if the non-outgunned side cares about pacifying or wiping out the outgunned side. Why did the japs surrender when only a comparatively small number died at Hiroshima and Nagasaki? They were outgunned and could have taken on asymmetrical warfare and cause all kinds of hell for the allies.
Anyway, the M-1 was a facetious reference to the fact that the military has an assorted range of larger and more deadly toys than an AR-15
The Martial law result of thousands of jailed people because they speak french.
Internment of American-Japanese in the 2nd world war - just because they looked funny.
I see your M1 and raise you urban warfare. A personal firearm can go where tanks can't.
B-52 anyone?
> I see your AR-15 and raise you an M-1 Tank
Marine infantrymen are trained how to disable tanks. They are aren't armed with much beyond the AR-15.
Aaaaannnd what side of the battle you think they will be on? You know, after having sworn oaths etc, and a command structure that can say "bang! you're dead" for not obeying orders?
Or do you consider that every ex-miltary person has a raging libertarian anti-government hard-on? And want to kill their former squad mates?