I'd say the original statement is rather outrageous. That doesn't mean it's untrue, but it does lead a man to question. Especially a man with experience as the grandparent poster seems to have.
My experience with martial arts has been to respect what you see, not what you hear. A man who speaks too highly of himself is more often than not a relatively poor martial artist compared to his stories.
The art isn't dieing. The liniage may die. The school may die. The system may die. But the art lives on, albet it lives with change. Being a martial artist myself, I believe this guy is the "last ninja" only because he wants it to be that way.
Your first assumption is that only the rich / famous are assassinated. The fact is that pretty much anyone could be the target of a hitman. You piss off the wrong people? Do somthing you shouldn't have? If that person can't involve the police they may hire an assassin. I don't know about anyone else, but I ceartanly don't have infrared scanners around my house.
Your second assumption is that it's always easy. Sure, you can hire some drug addict for $50 to pop a cap in somone's ass... But think of assumption #1 above. Stealth is still often required. The guy who paid for a hit doesn't want anything that will trace back to him. By being subtle and extremely careful, there is a much lower probability of getting caught. A good hitman won't be recognized, won't leave fingerprints, clothes, shells, tracable footprints, or witnesses... And the target won't know they are about to be hit until it happens.
This all comes from a book I've forgotten the name of. The methods have changed, but stealthy assassination is still common enough.
the winning design may end up being purple. I don't know.
Translation from HR speek: "I hate purple. It better be really freeking good if it's in purple." The only way the winner will be purple is if it comes with a free BJ. : )
Designed the look and feel of slashdot; an incredibly popular web destination recieveing 1,000,000 hits per day.
to my resume. That bullet point alone could be worth tens of thousands of dollars to a carrier.
If you loose, you loose: it's on spec, that's the deal. If you won, having your entry selected is worth far more than a laptop. The laptop is just a nice extra!
You make a valid point, but I would argue that the PVR is as much like a VCR as a horse and buggy is like a motor vehicle.
They are both powered transportation using wheels. While the horse and buggy must have been a revolution in it's time, the automobile was another huge leap forward.
The PVR allows me freedom in the way I watch TV. I can easily and automatically record all the shows I want. Then I watch them when I have free time. With TV, I had to change my schedule to catch the shows I liked. The VCR can do that, but not in a way that is practical. I only used the VCR timer for stuff that was on far too early, or was extremely interesting.
Getting back to the automoble / horse and buggy idea: Both can cross the united states, but I would only use one of them for it on a regular basis.
The cogs have been around forever. It's the machine that I'm interested in.
I remember the incredible difficulty TiVo had trying to explain what their product did to consumers. These days, the PVR is ubiquidus. Back then, people still saw TiVo as a kind of VCR, which it really wasn't.
Given the difficulty in explaining what a PVR did, I don't think the idea is entirely obvious.
That reminds me of a project named Songs To Wear Pants To who did a song using the letters of words to equal the digits of Pi.
I AM THE FIRST FIFTY DIGITS OF PI 0:36
Please compose and record a song extolling the virtues of your Web site in which the lengths of the words can also be used as a mnemonic for at least the first 50 digits of pi. In other words, the first word has three letters, the second word one letter, the third word four letters, and so on.
[For your convenience, STWPT provides the first fifty digits of pi:
I used to have a co-located server hanging off of a 10MBPS link to an OC-12. Most sites were throttled or slower than my link. I was extremely pleased the day I hit 900KBps download speed.
But with Bit Torrent I wouldn't need a single download location with a fat pipe. I could suck 40KBps from 200 different people with ease.
If each processing unit on a CPU was the size/power of a specialized processor (GPU, ect...), the chip would be gigantic, and so would be hard to make, expensive to buy, consume massive amounts of power, and emit unimaginable heat.
If you showed a modern CPU to a guy from 1996 he'd say exactly the same thing. He'd probably also drool onto your motherboard.
Fair enough, but I don't think it invalidates my point. The problem is beating up the mayor's son is a good way to stir up a lot of shit. However, IMO if the system won't protect you, you are justified to use martial arts.
You're saying that the majority of bullies are the sons of polititions, and that those polititions have a interest in preventing kids from learning responsibility?
It is your right to be protected. The police will respond to a dangerous situation, if for no other reason than to prevent it from escalating.
When I was 18 I still had a hard time dealing with punk kids. This 15 year old was giving me trouble. Rather than getting my hands dirty I called the police. They were happy to talk to the kid, in order to avoid a more dangerous situation.
I'm currently teaching a highschool self defense class, so I'm pretty confident that I know my shit on this one®
The reason it isn't acceptable for a kid to fight back is because that's the duty of the campus staff. A kid who is being bullied is well within his rights to contact the teachers, and/or police. They are the ones who deal with this crap.
For one, bullies are often used to being abused. A bully usually lacks confidence, has fear and compensates for that with the power they feel when they push other people around. Beating the tar out of one of them is likely to make the problem worse rather than better.
For another, where do you end your justification? The guys at littleton highschool murdered their classmates for the reasons you suggest here.
The correct response is to build a level of trust with the students. They need to trust that bullies will be dealt with, and things won't simply get worse for telling authority figures.
Self defense means preventing injury. The first step is to avoid dangerous situations. The next step is to use your words and mind to avoid a fight. After that you try to escape.
If you're in a fight that you cannot escape, only then is it justifiable to hurt someone else. Even then, it's your responsibility to escape as soon as possible.
Beating the crap out of someone to prove a point makes you a bully.
Think of it more like a set of mini-games. The main game is the part where you fly around the galixy, spread like weed, and blow shit up. Everything up to that point is just a set of well featured mini-games.
No, I really mean DRM. Some modern ink cartrages have DRM protected electronics that report information to the printer. The electronics are required for the printer to use the cartrage, and breaking the DRM is required to produce 3rd party cartrages.
It's possible it could be like lighter fluid, but if ink has taught us anything it's that people are always looking for new ways to make money on inexpensive hardware.
I'm not saying that fuel cels are dangerous. I'm one of those guys who wouldn't mind nuclear powered cars. I'm saying that I don't like dealing with ink refil kits, and I don't think fuel cell refil kits would be any more fun.
Especially since the revolver seems to be loaded with blanks.
3 mile island was an econimic desaster but killed no one. Chernobyl caused a notable loss of life, but nothing nearly as bad as recent coal desasters. Given that Chernobyl's design was about as safe as playing hot potato with nitro glycerine, I think nuclear power has a pretty good safety record.
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I'd say the original statement is rather outrageous. That doesn't mean it's untrue, but it does lead a man to question. Especially a man with experience as the grandparent poster seems to have.
My experience with martial arts has been to respect what you see, not what you hear. A man who speaks too highly of himself is more often than not a relatively poor martial artist compared to his stories.
The art isn't dieing. The liniage may die. The school may die. The system may die. But the art lives on, albet it lives with change. Being a martial artist myself, I believe this guy is the "last ninja" only because he wants it to be that way.
You're making 2 major assumptions:
Your first assumption is that only the rich / famous are assassinated. The fact is that pretty much anyone could be the target of a hitman. You piss off the wrong people? Do somthing you shouldn't have? If that person can't involve the police they may hire an assassin. I don't know about anyone else, but I ceartanly don't have infrared scanners around my house.
Your second assumption is that it's always easy. Sure, you can hire some drug addict for $50 to pop a cap in somone's ass... But think of assumption #1 above. Stealth is still often required. The guy who paid for a hit doesn't want anything that will trace back to him. By being subtle and extremely careful, there is a much lower probability of getting caught. A good hitman won't be recognized, won't leave fingerprints, clothes, shells, tracable footprints, or witnesses... And the target won't know they are about to be hit until it happens.
This all comes from a book I've forgotten the name of. The methods have changed, but stealthy assassination is still common enough.
the winning design may end up being purple. I don't know.
Translation from HR speek: "I hate purple. It better be really freeking good if it's in purple." The only way the winner will be purple is if it comes with a free BJ. : )
to my resume. That bullet point alone could be worth tens of thousands of dollars to a carrier.
If you loose, you loose: it's on spec, that's the deal. If you won, having your entry selected is worth far more than a laptop. The laptop is just a nice extra!
You make a valid point, but I would argue that the PVR is as much like a VCR as a horse and buggy is like a motor vehicle.
They are both powered transportation using wheels. While the horse and buggy must have been a revolution in it's time, the automobile was another huge leap forward.
The PVR allows me freedom in the way I watch TV. I can easily and automatically record all the shows I want. Then I watch them when I have free time. With TV, I had to change my schedule to catch the shows I liked. The VCR can do that, but not in a way that is practical. I only used the VCR timer for stuff that was on far too early, or was extremely interesting.
Getting back to the automoble / horse and buggy idea: Both can cross the united states, but I would only use one of them for it on a regular basis.
The cogs have been around forever. It's the machine that I'm interested in.
I remember the incredible difficulty TiVo had trying to explain what their product did to consumers. These days, the PVR is ubiquidus. Back then, people still saw TiVo as a kind of VCR, which it really wasn't.
Given the difficulty in explaining what a PVR did, I don't think the idea is entirely obvious.
Sounds like my first relationship. Let me tell you that even if you have a weak back-bone, a fat pipe can be a lot of fun in the right hands.
Was this pre or post bit torrent?
I used to have a co-located server hanging off of a 10MBPS link to an OC-12. Most sites were throttled or slower than my link. I was extremely pleased the day I hit 900KBps download speed.
But with Bit Torrent I wouldn't need a single download location with a fat pipe. I could suck 40KBps from 200 different people with ease.
If each processing unit on a CPU was the size/power of a specialized processor (GPU, ect...), the chip would be gigantic, and so would be hard to make, expensive to buy, consume massive amounts of power, and emit unimaginable heat.
If you showed a modern CPU to a guy from 1996 he'd say exactly the same thing. He'd probably also drool onto your motherboard.
multiply the base amount by something like 1.337
It's nice to know that the IRS has a sense of humor, or at least a little geek creed.
"Intel's going to have to do a lot more than this to catch up to AMD in the server space."
Back in 2001 when I was just an AMD fanboy I would have made a mess in my pants upon hearing that.
Fair enough, but I don't think it invalidates my point. The problem is beating up the mayor's son is a good way to stir up a lot of shit. However, IMO if the system won't protect you, you are justified to use martial arts.
Generally, any attempt to map the "Car" idiom onto any legal question regarding Cyberspace, will make a poor fit.
Generally, any anology gives a person an opportunity to distort an argument.
You're saying that the majority of bullies are the sons of polititions, and that those polititions have a interest in preventing kids from learning responsibility?
It is your right to be protected. The police will respond to a dangerous situation, if for no other reason than to prevent it from escalating.
When I was 18 I still had a hard time dealing with punk kids. This 15 year old was giving me trouble. Rather than getting my hands dirty I called the police. They were happy to talk to the kid, in order to avoid a more dangerous situation.
I'm currently teaching a highschool self defense class, so I'm pretty confident that I know my shit on this one®
The reason it isn't acceptable for a kid to fight back is because that's the duty of the campus staff. A kid who is being bullied is well within his rights to contact the teachers, and/or police. They are the ones who deal with this crap.
For one, bullies are often used to being abused. A bully usually lacks confidence, has fear and compensates for that with the power they feel when they push other people around. Beating the tar out of one of them is likely to make the problem worse rather than better.
For another, where do you end your justification? The guys at littleton highschool murdered their classmates for the reasons you suggest here.
The correct response is to build a level of trust with the students. They need to trust that bullies will be dealt with, and things won't simply get worse for telling authority figures.
Self defense means preventing injury. The first step is to avoid dangerous situations. The next step is to use your words and mind to avoid a fight. After that you try to escape.
If you're in a fight that you cannot escape, only then is it justifiable to hurt someone else. Even then, it's your responsibility to escape as soon as possible.
Beating the crap out of someone to prove a point makes you a bully.
Think of it more like a set of mini-games. The main game is the part where you fly around the galixy, spread like weed, and blow shit up. Everything up to that point is just a set of well featured mini-games.
No, I really mean DRM. Some modern ink cartrages have DRM protected electronics that report information to the printer. The electronics are required for the printer to use the cartrage, and breaking the DRM is required to produce 3rd party cartrages.
It's possible it could be like lighter fluid, but if ink has taught us anything it's that people are always looking for new ways to make money on inexpensive hardware.
I'm not saying that fuel cels are dangerous. I'm one of those guys who wouldn't mind nuclear powered cars. I'm saying that I don't like dealing with ink refil kits, and I don't think fuel cell refil kits would be any more fun.
Laptop fuel cartrages mean new DRM and propriatary designs as well as messy (and dangerous) 3rd party refil kits.
Consumers aren't the only ones looking forward to this.
Especially since the revolver seems to be loaded with blanks.
3 mile island was an econimic desaster but killed no one. Chernobyl caused a notable loss of life, but nothing nearly as bad as recent coal desasters. Given that Chernobyl's design was about as safe as playing hot potato with nitro glycerine, I think nuclear power has a pretty good safety record.
I'm really just messing around. Bit of a social experement.