In defense of Gibbs, the guy was a Marine, so at least he's been trained to (and probably has during his tour) do stuff like that. Some people are so good with guns it's scary. The Marines also emphasize the marksmanship thing, too. So his character has some background to pull that off, not just some angsty dude with sunglasses in a hummer.
The one dude who shot Ducky's assistant got the better of Gibbs, who also took a bullet to the arm for his trouble. Apparently you haven't watched the series that much, or are confusing it with CSI: Miami, or not paying attention.
I don't know much about the UCMJ, but I suspect they are a little more lax with warrants when other military personnel are involved. (Do they even need them?) Arrest and confiment are probably handled differently, too. I know that the captain of a ship can send you to the brig, or hold a captain's mast without a warrant.
Anyone out there who knows the UCMJ please clarify, I'd like to know how the above works.
Watched CSI: Miami twice. No good, for reasons the parent brings up, among other things. Watched CSI: NY. Didn't click. CSI (Las Vegas) does a much better job staying grounded to reality. Fun characters, good use of tech, and they keep the wacky shit (Miami's "wifi keeps your email", wtf?) down.
They get the science and technology wrong as often as right. It seems like every other episode where they enhance three pixels of an image to get a recognizable face in a reflection. Or there was the CSI:Miami where they got a saved email off of the wireless router that the person had connected through. At least when they got image data out of the NTSC overscan, they were using a real concept, even if the amount of overscan they recovered was vastly exaggerated.
I don't notice too much that's way out in left field on CSI. Not the spinoffs, mind you; I don't watch those. The characters don't click, and you have too much stuff like the wireless router thing you mentiond.
CSI shows all of the latest and greatest equipment with everything at their fingertips. Real crime labs aren't that fortunate. Example: I was watching The First 48 on A&E and they were using the superglue method to get fingerprints off a knife. Hey, I've seen that on CSI all the time, right? The difference: the real crime lab was using a hotplate in a shoebox, whereas CSI showed a nifty (probably expensive) machine that did the same thing.
They also operate in some kind of hypertime. They have their own state of the art DNA lab and get those kind of results faster than a not so well funded real world department. Cases get sloved (or almost solved) quickly, but not always. It's real enough that I can forgive the inaccuracies for the sake of a one hour drama. I've been impressed with CSI in how they handle computer-related things. The other two, Miami and NY, I tried, saw they sucked, and haven't bothered since.
Do you know what a sig (AKA "signature") is? I want to make fun of my school in my sign, and many sigs are offtopic, since you want to make that point.
I'm not really inclined to think that a Democrat majority House and/or Senate would let a Republican president do whatever he wants. The point I would think most obvious is Roe v. Wade; the two parties have somewhat different views on that one. Now we have a Republican president, plus majority in the House and the Senate. To moderate Bush, there should be a Democratic majority in congress, not a Republican majority.
In regards to my sig, well, my school was pro-Kerry for no reason other than to hate Bush. Nobody I talked to had a thought out reason. I thought it was lame, and I won't vote based on whoever it's cool to hate or whatnot.
Assuming that enough fraud is uncovered that it could have swung the election the other way, what recourse is there? Would we have to rehold the election? Or could the current winner be undone?
What should happen, if there was fraud, is to invalidate the election and schedule another one. In the new election, throw out (or make illegal) whatever machines were used to create the fraud. Plug the holes and do it right. You can't declare anyone a winner if any fraud was involved without holding a new election. Yeah, it would be a pain in the ass, but it would be the right way to go about fixing it.
Bush may have won a clear majority, but this election is still close, and there is still a large portion of the population that despises him. I'm sure Bush will interpret his victory as a mandate and do what he wants (not like his lack of a mandate was stopping him before), but this country needs some serious help closing the divide, and I don't see how Bush is going to address that.
I don't think hate is the right word. I don't hate Bush, and I don't hate Kerry. Just because someone voted one way or the other does not imply hate for whomever they didn't vote for.
What I don't get is all of the "run for the hills" people. Why don't you want to follow up your vote? You know, there are more elections than that of president. For example, voting a majority of the Senate or House Democrat with a Republican president. By leaving, you're only giving the future of those elections over to those of us who stay. But people are led to believe those races don't matter, and it's all about the president.
I think I got off track here... I replied on the hate issue. Hate is Moore and his movie; that's outright hate. Not everyone feels that way, however. I suspect most people went to vote to decide who they felt would be the best choice, not who they hated the least.
Kerry supporters: besides, in four years, we all get to choose between two totally different people. Don't be dicks about losing.*
Bush supporters: don't be dicks about winning.*
* Vote counts are not signed, sealed, and officiated yet. There's still some outstanding deadlines for stuff like overseas votes.
Probably not. There's two counties that would go to Kerry for specific reasons: Vegas because it's a large population center, and those tend left, and Washoe county (where I live) because of the university. The rest of the state, while not all that much, may be enough to counter the slim margin Kerry has in Washoe County. And even then, it's barely a landslide victory.
Clark county (Vegas) always goes left, while the rest of the state tends right. Nevada is one of those states where you find a whole lot of nothing outside of Las Vegas and Reno/Sparks. It would honestly surprise me to see NV go Kerry, but it would only be because of Vegas and UNR. The university is strong Kerry and very anti-Bush. As I write this, Bush is winning every county except Clark county.
The fact that some scientists may be focusing their attention in particular studies on post-industrial-revolution effects doesn't mean that other scientists haven't established a longer baseline in other studies. There are a lot of data out there if you go look for them, so I'm not sure why the grandparent only referenced short-term studies.
Point taken.
The problem is nobody ever brings up those studies. So we're left with studies based on 200 year periods, and that's what decisions get based on.
The scientists on this expedition will be looking only at the last 200 years of ice core history. They are interested in learning what the ice records about human influences on the earth's climate and Antarctica's environment.
200 years is way too short to tell us anything, although for a human influences study is probably valid. I don't think focusing on "human influences" is a good idea, because it introduces bias that good science shouldn't have.
I'm not saying global warming is a farce, I'm saying that it (and its supposed cause) is too overrated. Too much study is going into proving how bad it is than looking at the Earth's climate objectively.
Obviously there is global warming - there aren't glaciers roaming all over North America anymore, and the giant ass lake that Nevada once was is now gone to desert wasteland. We will probably go back into a ice age eventually, but not in our lifetimes. Then everyone will worry about global cooling, then about global warming, etc.
The fact that there's so much ice implies cooling over a long period of time, not warming. Yes, there were warmer periods, but overall, water turns to ice when it's cold.
Its just another natural phenomenon we must learn to deal with with like earthquakes, volcanoes, storms etc.
Article sez:
Prompt efforts to curb greenhouse-gas emissions could slow the pace of change, allowing communities and wildlife to adapt, the report says. But it also stresses that further warming and melting are unavoidable, given the century-long buildup of the gases, mainly carbon dioxide.
And then St. Helens erupts again, pumping more gasses into the atmosphere that we puny humans ever could imagine. I bet a car would still be a worse offender than a volcano in the eyes of an environmentalist, though.
Although the article doesn't say how much of a period of data was used, it can't have been that much. We, as humans, have not been on this planet long enough gathering data to make such broad assumptions about the Eath like "global warming". And we've been collecting data on the poles for far less than normal land.
What? Do they have any idea how short that is in geological time? That's a fraction of a jiffy compared to the real history of Earth's warming and cooling cycle. After that line, it's not even worth reading the article.
A four year warning trend doesn't really mean anything. You can take any graph, chop out a whole lot of it, and only look at a portion that is trending upwards or trending downwards, but it doesn't tell you anything about the big picture. It'd be like making bond decisions based on nothing more than a five minute window of some graph. Maybe it's trending upwards in that five minute window, but 15 minutes on either side you can't see could be causing the whole thing to trend downwards.
Four year study? Give me a break. Do a 4,000 year study and then we'll talk. 4,000 years is still short, but it's a little better than four.
The interesting thing is the APC powershield (basically a 12v battery and charger) in the pictures. So it looks like responsibility for powering the demarc end of the fiber is shifted to the customer.
Oh, and by the way, you may want to consider adjusting your UPS to use the proper float voltage (not for the faint of heart, but possible on some UPS's without soldering), and again, installing a low-speed fan to move some air through the thing and keep everything cool. Many UPS vendors coughAPCcough set their float voltages too high and thus cook the batteries, and the elevated temperatures don't help either; that all makes for a nice revenue stream, as they charge a fortune for replacement packs(which are almost always made up of standard-size batteries, and thus available much more cheaply if you're the enterprising type). Properly maintained lead-acid batteries should last almost a decade- yet most UPS batteries die within a matter of 2-3 years. It's pathetic, considering how much lead is in them and how most people probably don't dispose of the UPS's or the batteries properly.
Any good links on how to alter the float voltage on a UPS? I'd assume the proper float voltage is listed on the battery specs and you'd want to adjust the UPS to match that.
The people who bought the game when it came out can't even use steam. I HAVE bought the game. I HAVE the CD key. Unfortunately steam expects a totally different key (letters and numbers, and more of them) than I have.
Here's what worked for me:
1) Install HL from the CD like you would in the pre-Steam days. CD key is accepted and stuff.
2) Install the updates, agian, pre-Steam stuff.
3) Install Steam. Steam asks me if I want top import my pre-Steam HL stuff, including any mods like Firearms that are third party.
4) Steam grinds away doing something, but never asked me for a CD key. Eventually it prompts me to create a Steam account username/password.
5) Done.
Of course, Steam may have changed since I did that, but I never tried entering a pre-Steam CD key into Steam itself. I always installed HL and then Steam after the fact.
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In defense of Gibbs, the guy was a Marine, so at least he's been trained to (and probably has during his tour) do stuff like that. Some people are so good with guns it's scary. The Marines also emphasize the marksmanship thing, too. So his character has some background to pull that off, not just some angsty dude with sunglasses in a hummer.
The one dude who shot Ducky's assistant got the better of Gibbs, who also took a bullet to the arm for his trouble. Apparently you haven't watched the series that much, or are confusing it with CSI: Miami, or not paying attention.
I don't know much about the UCMJ, but I suspect they are a little more lax with warrants when other military personnel are involved. (Do they even need them?) Arrest and confiment are probably handled differently, too. I know that the captain of a ship can send you to the brig, or hold a captain's mast without a warrant.
Anyone out there who knows the UCMJ please clarify, I'd like to know how the above works.
Damn... and that's actually an understatement.
Watched CSI: Miami twice. No good, for reasons the parent brings up, among other things. Watched CSI: NY. Didn't click. CSI (Las Vegas) does a much better job staying grounded to reality. Fun characters, good use of tech, and they keep the wacky shit (Miami's "wifi keeps your email", wtf?) down.
Did you ever consider they might be real? This one comes in models from $5,000 to $10,000:
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http://www.lynnpeavey.com/product_info.php?cPath=
Will every crime lab buy one when they can use the shoebox? Probably not. Does this thing look good for a TV crime lab? You bet it does.
They get the science and technology wrong as often as right. It seems like every other episode where they enhance three pixels of an image to get a recognizable face in a reflection. Or there was the CSI:Miami where they got a saved email off of the wireless router that the person had connected through. At least when they got image data out of the NTSC overscan, they were using a real concept, even if the amount of overscan they recovered was vastly exaggerated.
I don't notice too much that's way out in left field on CSI. Not the spinoffs, mind you; I don't watch those. The characters don't click, and you have too much stuff like the wireless router thing you mentiond.
CSI shows all of the latest and greatest equipment with everything at their fingertips. Real crime labs aren't that fortunate. Example: I was watching The First 48 on A&E and they were using the superglue method to get fingerprints off a knife. Hey, I've seen that on CSI all the time, right? The difference: the real crime lab was using a hotplate in a shoebox, whereas CSI showed a nifty (probably expensive) machine that did the same thing.
They also operate in some kind of hypertime. They have their own state of the art DNA lab and get those kind of results faster than a not so well funded real world department. Cases get sloved (or almost solved) quickly, but not always. It's real enough that I can forgive the inaccuracies for the sake of a one hour drama. I've been impressed with CSI in how they handle computer-related things. The other two, Miami and NY, I tried, saw they sucked, and haven't bothered since.
Exit polls, predictions, and who called what state before whom aside, I'm curious what the /. crowd thinks of this county level map:
t e2004/countymap.htm
http://www.usatoday.com/news/politicselections/vo
at least in any of the Coulteresque/Murdochian fantasies of your typical Fox News-watching, Bush-voting red stater.
t e2004/countymap.htm
Most of the country is red, when you look at it from the county level. I only see a few states where blue is the majority.
http://www.usatoday.com/news/politicselections/vo
It's also easy to tell where the large population centers are. Hint: they're blue.
Do you know what a sig (AKA "signature") is? I want to make fun of my school in my sign, and many sigs are offtopic, since you want to make that point.
You are just ignorant.
The Daily Mirror is one of the United Kingdom's largest newspapers. Here is their front page on the day after the election
Could someoneexplain to me what that has to do with WPA? or D-Link keys?
I'm not really inclined to think that a Democrat majority House and/or Senate would let a Republican president do whatever he wants. The point I would think most obvious is Roe v. Wade; the two parties have somewhat different views on that one. Now we have a Republican president, plus majority in the House and the Senate. To moderate Bush, there should be a Democratic majority in congress, not a Republican majority.
In regards to my sig, well, my school was pro-Kerry for no reason other than to hate Bush. Nobody I talked to had a thought out reason. I thought it was lame, and I won't vote based on whoever it's cool to hate or whatnot.
Assuming that enough fraud is uncovered that it could have swung the election the other way, what recourse is there? Would we have to rehold the election? Or could the current winner be undone?
What should happen, if there was fraud, is to invalidate the election and schedule another one. In the new election, throw out (or make illegal) whatever machines were used to create the fraud. Plug the holes and do it right. You can't declare anyone a winner if any fraud was involved without holding a new election. Yeah, it would be a pain in the ass, but it would be the right way to go about fixing it.
Bush may have won a clear majority, but this election is still close, and there is still a large portion of the population that despises him. I'm sure Bush will interpret his victory as a mandate and do what he wants (not like his lack of a mandate was stopping him before), but this country needs some serious help closing the divide, and I don't see how Bush is going to address that.
I don't think hate is the right word. I don't hate Bush, and I don't hate Kerry. Just because someone voted one way or the other does not imply hate for whomever they didn't vote for.
What I don't get is all of the "run for the hills" people. Why don't you want to follow up your vote? You know, there are more elections than that of president. For example, voting a majority of the Senate or House Democrat with a Republican president. By leaving, you're only giving the future of those elections over to those of us who stay. But people are led to believe those races don't matter, and it's all about the president.
I think I got off track here... I replied on the hate issue. Hate is Moore and his movie; that's outright hate. Not everyone feels that way, however. I suspect most people went to vote to decide who they felt would be the best choice, not who they hated the least.
Kerry supporters: besides, in four years, we all get to choose between two totally different people. Don't be dicks about losing.*
Bush supporters: don't be dicks about winning.*
* Vote counts are not signed, sealed, and officiated yet. There's still some outstanding deadlines for stuff like overseas votes.
Also, it looks like Kerry is set to take Nevada
Probably not. There's two counties that would go to Kerry for specific reasons: Vegas because it's a large population center, and those tend left, and Washoe county (where I live) because of the university. The rest of the state, while not all that much, may be enough to counter the slim margin Kerry has in Washoe County. And even then, it's barely a landslide victory.
Clark county (Vegas) always goes left, while the rest of the state tends right. Nevada is one of those states where you find a whole lot of nothing outside of Las Vegas and Reno/Sparks. It would honestly surprise me to see NV go Kerry, but it would only be because of Vegas and UNR. The university is strong Kerry and very anti-Bush. As I write this, Bush is winning every county except Clark county.
Real results:
http://nvresults.nv.gov/
Parent might not be safe for work.*
*depends on who you work for and how they feel about scantily clad females.
So you're saying that they actually used this thing to make Apollo 13!? All this time I thought they were on wires! That is just hellacool.
Absolutely. The weightless scenes in Apollo 13 are the real deal.
The fact that some scientists may be focusing their attention in particular studies on post-industrial-revolution effects doesn't mean that other scientists haven't established a longer baseline in other studies. There are a lot of data out there if you go look for them, so I'm not sure why the grandparent only referenced short-term studies.
Point taken.
The problem is nobody ever brings up those studies. So we're left with studies based on 200 year periods, and that's what decisions get based on.
http://www.elmhurst.edu/~chm/vchembook/globalwarmA .html:
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This exercise investigates the variation in global temperatures over the past 150 years.
150 years is still too short to tell us anything.
http://www.secretsoftheice.org/icecore/warming.ht
The scientists on this expedition will be looking only at the last 200 years of ice core history. They are interested in learning what the ice records about human influences on the earth's climate and Antarctica's environment.
200 years is way too short to tell us anything, although for a human influences study is probably valid. I don't think focusing on "human influences" is a good idea, because it introduces bias that good science shouldn't have.
I'm not saying global warming is a farce, I'm saying that it (and its supposed cause) is too overrated. Too much study is going into proving how bad it is than looking at the Earth's climate objectively.
Obviously there is global warming - there aren't glaciers roaming all over North America anymore, and the giant ass lake that Nevada once was is now gone to desert wasteland. We will probably go back into a ice age eventually, but not in our lifetimes. Then everyone will worry about global cooling, then about global warming, etc.
The fact that there's so much ice implies cooling over a long period of time, not warming. Yes, there were warmer periods, but overall, water turns to ice when it's cold.
Its just another natural phenomenon we must learn to deal with with like earthquakes, volcanoes, storms etc.
Article sez:
Prompt efforts to curb greenhouse-gas emissions could slow the pace of change, allowing communities and wildlife to adapt, the report says. But it also stresses that further warming and melting are unavoidable, given the century-long buildup of the gases, mainly carbon dioxide.
And then St. Helens erupts again, pumping more gasses into the atmosphere that we puny humans ever could imagine. I bet a car would still be a worse offender than a volcano in the eyes of an environmentalist, though.
Although the article doesn't say how much of a period of data was used, it can't have been that much. We, as humans, have not been on this planet long enough gathering data to make such broad assumptions about the Eath like "global warming". And we've been collecting data on the poles for far less than normal land.
1: Show me ACCURATE 1 million year tempature records. Wait!! We only have 80 years of records
Holy shit man, don't you know it gets warmer in the summer than the winter? We're all doomed! Doomed!
... comprehensive four-year study ...
What? Do they have any idea how short that is in geological time? That's a fraction of a jiffy compared to the real history of Earth's warming and cooling cycle. After that line, it's not even worth reading the article.
A four year warning trend doesn't really mean anything. You can take any graph, chop out a whole lot of it, and only look at a portion that is trending upwards or trending downwards, but it doesn't tell you anything about the big picture. It'd be like making bond decisions based on nothing more than a five minute window of some graph. Maybe it's trending upwards in that five minute window, but 15 minutes on either side you can't see could be causing the whole thing to trend downwards.
Four year study? Give me a break. Do a 4,000 year study and then we'll talk. 4,000 years is still short, but it's a little better than four.
The interesting thing is the APC powershield (basically a 12v battery and charger) in the pictures. So it looks like responsibility for powering the demarc end of the fiber is shifted to the customer.
Oh, and by the way, you may want to consider adjusting your UPS to use the proper float voltage (not for the faint of heart, but possible on some UPS's without soldering), and again, installing a low-speed fan to move some air through the thing and keep everything cool. Many UPS vendors coughAPCcough set their float voltages too high and thus cook the batteries, and the elevated temperatures don't help either; that all makes for a nice revenue stream, as they charge a fortune for replacement packs(which are almost always made up of standard-size batteries, and thus available much more cheaply if you're the enterprising type). Properly maintained lead-acid batteries should last almost a decade- yet most UPS batteries die within a matter of 2-3 years. It's pathetic, considering how much lead is in them and how most people probably don't dispose of the UPS's or the batteries properly.
Any good links on how to alter the float voltage on a UPS? I'd assume the proper float voltage is listed on the battery specs and you'd want to adjust the UPS to match that.
The people who bought the game when it came out can't even use steam. I HAVE bought the game. I HAVE the CD key. Unfortunately steam expects a totally different key (letters and numbers, and more of them) than I have.
Here's what worked for me:
1) Install HL from the CD like you would in the pre-Steam days. CD key is accepted and stuff.
2) Install the updates, agian, pre-Steam stuff.
3) Install Steam. Steam asks me if I want top import my pre-Steam HL stuff, including any mods like Firearms that are third party.
4) Steam grinds away doing something, but never asked me for a CD key. Eventually it prompts me to create a Steam account username/password.
5) Done.
Of course, Steam may have changed since I did that, but I never tried entering a pre-Steam CD key into Steam itself. I always installed HL and then Steam after the fact.
Does the school provide Web pages?
Can students register online?
My school has both of those, plus campus wide wireless access, and we aren't even on the list. The list is bogus.