When you're referencing all Mexicans and call them murderers and rapists and some, you assume, are good people... You're a racist.
When you use the possessive to refer to African Americans... OK, then you're probably just ignorant.
When you call out Hiliary over Bill's infidelity yet the woman you're having an affair with gets caught screwing someone else under a lifeguard tower... You're a hypocrite as well as a cuckhold.
When you tell everyone how successful a businessman you are, having vastly lost money compared to if you'd just invested the money daddy gave you in the S&P500 and then claim the tax credit for earning UNDER $500K in NYC for each of the last three years, to go along with your many corporate and personal bankruptcies, you're a failure.
Though, actually, to be fair, I doubt he is a racist. To be a racist, you have to hold those beliefs. He's just hitched his wagon to those who hold them. He fits the definition of a sociopathic narcissist, a very scared and shallow little man who'll say and do whatever it takes to get what he needs.
In that regard, I actually feel sorry for the racists who do vote for him...
Those who vote against him always knew he was a sociopathic narcissist.
Those who vote for him, who really hoped he meant whatever he spouted to get their vote, are going to be the ones left with a far nastier shock when they no longer empower him and he needs to chase someone else.
When he bashed the Muslims, I said nothing because I wasn't a Muslim.
When he came for the Mexicans, I said nothing because I wasn't a Mexican.
And when he came for my guns, there was no one left to speak up for me.
I'm going to agree with you but only in the hopes we can become friends and you connect me with whoever sold you what you were smoking.
Neither party is who they were in twenty years ago. If you look at the degree of polarization, even then, there were some who could work across the aisles.
Go back as far as St Ronald and you get someone with more in common with current democrats than republicans.
Go twenty years further back and you have broadly un recognizable parties pivoting on some of their traditional issues as other of their traditional issues drove them to do so.
Go back half a century more and you've got parties no modern zealot could agree with as each held political territory that deeply appeals and deeply disgusts each of the current parties.
Just because a party once did something the better part of a century or two ago really means nothing in a world where 20-30 years can make a party unrecognizable to many of its old stalwarts.
Or, you know, whatever your talk radio of choice tells you.
We can't manage to stop looting the social security pot long enough to pay a decent pension to the elderly. So, somehow, we're going to get it right with a larger chunk of the population?
Not saying it's a good or a bad idea. Just observing that people have a gift for screwing up even the best of ideas.
"The other more obvious risk is that such a system could take jobs away from those in need."
Social Media Nipple Checkers Local 857, like my father and his father before him.
It's hard work on the Internet nippleface but we're a proud people.
Some people might say it's false drama, lamenting the decline of an industry that only goes back a dozen years but we original "ought fourer families" as we like to call ourselves have never known any other way.
I have friends in who were Internet Radio DJs for the four hours that was a thing until smart playlists replaced them. Many of them have never found employment since.
Every month or two, I get a notice about another service being discontinued. I think I'm down to maybe three whole apps that still work on it.
Sure, these are invasive ads that weren't a part of the product I bought. But at least Samsung is finally adding in place of their constant stripping of functionality.
When you're a Smart TV owner, you take victories where you can find them.
I spent several years trying to get help for dyslexia. A lot of school counsellors assumed it was what I was dealing with.
Right up to the point one caught that what I was actually doing was self taught speed reading everything and couldn't switch the damn thing off.
You have no idea how annoying it is to know a piece of information MUST exist within a passage but no amount of rereading, trying to slow yourself down, will get you to stop skipping over it because your brain has already decided it knows what is said.
As a simple example: Bob has $10. He pays dollars in tax. What percentage does Bob pay?
It's a standard question pattern. You know damn well that there must be an amount of dollars Bob paid in tax. You know the question likely has something like TWO in there and the answer would be twenty percent. But you read it over and over and the TWO never reveals itself because your brain has already decided it knows what the passage says.
It made chunks of my degree miserable. I knew the concepts, could study faster than most others, yet kept missing key parts of often simple questions in the exams.
Once I learned what I was doing, a hell of a lot of practice has weeded most of it back out at the expense of reading slower.
So, yeah, speed reading is great. Until it isn't. And then really isn't when you can't stop it.
Having worked my way up through every level, the biggest thing I've learned is "correct" is amassively subjective concept, based on value statements people at other levels don't see.
To take a deliberately simple case:
I would have declared a manager insane for buying Office365 licenses. After all, you can buy copies outright for less.
Except, as that manager, any savings I get are dwarfed by the pain in the ass of keeping licensing info. Some idiot loses the info and you're out far more than the difference when you have to re-buy. Or you don't re-buy and you're vulnerable to huge fines. Or you have someone dot every i and cross every t and you pay more for their salary than you save. Or Office365 keeps everyone licensed and demonstrably so.
Same goes for commenting.
Earlier in my career, commenting was slow. I could understand my code just fine without it. It was clearly readable after all. What idiot manager wants less productive code after I jumped through hoops?
Now I've paid the price of countless devs who write code no one else can follow. If watched countless more declare they have to rewrite everything because the previous guy who swore his code was readable wrote something the next guy swears is not. My perspective is completely different. I'd now rather each person codes a little slower so the company moves faster overall.
Who's right? Everyone has a good perspective but each is colored by the values that they weigh in.
I know my devs often think my calls are "wrong" because they assign different values to those I do... But I also know I've been put in the position exactly because I have the perspective I do. The best I can do is try to explain and help them understand, listening when they genuinely see something I've missed.
"The first cause of death for New York City children under 13"
How many deaths do children get in New York?
First cause of death: Traffic. Second cause of death: Silver bullets. Third cause of death: Staking. Fourth cause of death: Beheading. Fifth cause of death: Kill it with fire. Sixth cause of death: Exorcism. Seventh cause of death: Dream Warriors.
What other issues do Amazon, DHL, Google, and other need to solve?
People. Bored, often too intelligent for their own good, people.
How long before trolls figure out they can drive their cars close enough and in such a manner that self driving cars execute lane changes to avoid accidents and pull off the freeway? Or until someone realizes they can jam the car's sensors and the poor passenger, with no access to a steering wheel, can't convince the car to pull out of the open parking spot it's convinced it's barricaded in?
How long before an Amazon delivery drone comes in to a house that's observed to regularly get deliveries and gets a blanket tossed over it before being purloined by nerds who just got a sweet free drone to try hacking?
Wind gusts happen. You can factor in for a typical wind gust, a severe wind gust, a once in a century wind gust. You can factor in for different types of hardware failure, for power loss, etc. You can factor in for trees, for tall buildings, for cables... They're finite problem sets.
So I'll have to rewire my house every couple of years when they change from one proprietary cable standard to another?
iPod: Firewire. Buy lots of firewire connectors. Newer iPod/iPhone: Dock connector. Toss all of your firewire accessories and move to dock connectors. Newer iPhones: Lightning connector. Toss all of your dock connector accessories, move to lightning.
Everyone else gets to stick with USB that doesn't carry a $10 premium per cable/device because Apple just invented another proprietary standard.
Absolutely do what you can to work with the moment. But... While the doctors may be giving you bleak prognoses, from experience, they're pretty much winging it when it comes to the brain.
My wife was in a massive car accident. Shattered arm, collapsed lung, multiple breaks to her jaw, cracked eye socket, brain injuries. They induced a coma to keep her alive long enough to get her to a major hospital, called family to her bedside with a prognosis of, "IF she survives the night, it's 50:50 if she'll live." At that point, her brain stem was busy trying to retreat out of the back of her neck.
It was two weeks before they could get any response out of her, another two before she was aware. At that point, they wanted to amputate her arm and told her parents she'd never walk more than a few paces at best, would never look after herself.
Consent was given for the amputation though her mother asked the surgeon to simply do whatever he'd do for his own daughter. He spent eleven hours wiring it together and told her mother he'd most likely be back in to amputate but he'd given it a shot.
Fast forward two years, the arm survived. The girl who'd never walk more than a few paces was out of her wheelchair and starting to try to build a life on her own. In a settlement hearing (she'd bought "unlimited" coverage car insurance for the wreck she was in but there was small print saying they could modify at any time and they swapped it to $100k max five days before the accident) they acknowledged she was lucky to be walking but even the insurance lawyers, whose job was to minimize her injuries, acknowledged she'd probably never be able to return to school. No longer being able to read was a big part of that. And a huge loss to a National Merit scholarship winner, English major and librarian.
About another two years later... I'd taught her how to read again. She'd been living on her own. She returned to school. Started off barely making Cs. GPA went up every semester. She got straight As in her final semester. She now has two degrees, is a certified personal trainer and works in physical therapy. If she doesn't tell people about her injuries, they've absolutely no idea. Not bad for someone who the doctors declared would probably die, would never walk again, never look after herself and never return to school.
To message to take from this is that Traumatic Brain Injuries are absolute bitches but the medical profession has educated guesses about outcomes at best. You read up on neuroplasticity and the like and you realize they're really only just beginning to get an idea of what's possible. There are even stories of key researchers whose family members had strokes, who ignored all of the expert advice and got them back moving again by doing everything "wrong."
So days, weeks, months in... Just because the doctors tell you to prepare for the worst, don't give up. The brain does amazing things, often things they're completely clueless about it being able to do.
Tarantino's lawyers are arguing that it wasn't available online - until Gawker offered to pay anyone who leaked a copy.
It's not illegal to report a murder. It is illegal to say, "I'll pay $10,000 for the exclusive story for the person who kills my wife."
IANAL and I've no idea whether that analogy holds true for copyright but it's apparently the angle Tarantino's lawyers are pursuing - that it's not the linking so much as the linking to an act they solicited.
“The South Dakota fair is close and gives our kids another opportunity to present their work,” Scribner said. “I think that was some of our motivation, and it did give our kids another chance to qualify.”
The school absolutely used multiple fairs to get extra chances to qualify - they outright say so. And that's exactly why the rule's in place.
They put the rule in place to stop people failing at one using other fairs as a chance to succeed at another. He failed at one then used another to succeed. The school uses the second fair for exactly that purpose. And then they're shocked when they discover there was a rule to prevent the loophole they thought they'd discovered. That's not an unintended consequence. That's the intended consequence.
Simcity was just a botched attempt to do what mmo do.
No. SimCity was a blatant attempt to impose DRM through the absolute lie that powerful calculations were carried out on the server.
Simple logic would tell you that it was a lie: To claim the servers offered more power than the desktop machines is to imply EA/Maxis stood up a server farm that was "more powerful" than gamers' home rigs. Even without the GPU, you've got to figure that'd be a couple of hundred dollars (let's say $200). Figure on gamers using the game at least 20% of the time during the launch month. That's $40 in server costs... For a $60 game. Yeah, sure they did that.
Same goes for Microsoft's current claim. The XboxOne comes with an 8 core processor and 500gb HDD. Three times the power of each, huh? Even cheap, non backed up storage alone, that's $60-80 in disk space. Which is illogical as 1.5TB would take forever at most people's net connection speeds. Add in another couple of hundred for the processors? For a console that'll launch at, what, $500? Consoles that are famous for running at a loss at launch and slim margins thereafter. And half the retail price goes to server AWESOMEZ?
In both cases, claims of amazing server power is an absolute lie to justify the real goal: Force users to connect to the server, attached to a single key you can track, piracy ceases to be such an issue.
And if there was any doubt about just how little processing power SimCity's servers provided, despite claims that hugely complex tasks could be offloaded, making a game like SC5 impossible without the cloud? The game keeps running, just fine, for a good twenty minutes after it loses its net connection. Cloud saves and a microscopic amount of processing to say, "this is the state of other cities in the region," is about it.
MMOs handle a huge amount of game state on the servers that has to be synchronized in real time. The difficulty of piracy is a nice side effect but a side effect nonetheless. SimCity 5 and the XBoxOne are both blatant attempts to make piracy as difficult as possible while waving the false flag of awesome server side processing.
Isn't the whole point of medals to reward someone for putting their life on the line to protect their country?
That, sir, is un-American thinking. Those brave young men and women put their carpal tunnels on the line for you every day and they haven't even been granted a Purple Mouse in recognition.
There's still plenty we don't know, but so much of it is highly specialized that many breakthroughs are understood by only a handful.
Spare a thought for poor Charles Darwin. He published Origin Of The Species in 1859 and, over a century and a half later, only 39% of Americans fully believe it.
At least Samuel Pierpoint Langley, Svante Arrhenius and Arvid Högbom have managed to convince 63% that global climate change is real and they've only been going since the 1890s.
Still, could be worse: Galileo was imprisoned for the remainder of his life and his writing banned in 1618. The establishment (Catholic Church) didn't lift that interdiction on heliocentrism until 1822. Darwin's got another half century before he reaches Galileo's 204 years.
You can absolutely buy raw bricks and simple generic sets still. You just need to go to Lego's website, Legoland or somewhere like Amazon. If you go to Target or Walmart, they'll sell you the odd tub but everything else is branded because that's what sells better. Where shelf space isn't a premium, you can find the whole range. So is it Lego selling out or the retailers?
The Creator range is where you find your classic feel sets. Generic buildings and cars with multiple ideas per set.
City is still there if you want the early 80s style minifigs and fire stations vibe.
And for those with a sense of the dramatic, they have their huge modular buildings line.
If you want "traditional lego," it's very much still available. You just can't buy it in stores because the stores choose to stock the faster selling branded sets. I'd argue that's not Lego selling out - as they still make their product for anyone who wants it - but rather the retailers doing so.
Resigning is the RightThingToDo(TM), it's the ultimate apology
His payoff is equal to one year's pay of £450,000 (approaching $700,000).
Which he gets to claim for 54 days of work that he's also already been paid for. By quitting now, he's made just a hair under £10,000/day ($16,000/day), including weekends.
If he'd stayed for five years plus a final year's payoff, he'd have been paid a fifth of that rate.
"When I buy a car the dealer doesn't tell me that I have to buy a car alarm with it at extra cost."
You've not bought a car from a dealer lot recently, have you?
Expect to find LoJack (even in markets where the local police have bought zero units), alarms, windshield VIN etching, clear paint protectors, sealants, rust proofing, teflon upholstery protection and a wide variety of exciting floor mats pre installed and added on to the price of every actually available car, taking them way above and beyond the "Starting From..." low, low advertized MSRP on the banners around the lot. Listen to the radio commercials where whichever "mile of cars" with "over X thousand vehicles to choose from!" has "three at this price."
The difference between Blizzard and a car lot is, if Blizzard were a car lot, they'd be telling you, "We're sorry, the only copies we've got on hand today already have their accounts hooked to a validator and we can't remove it. We could order you a copy without a validator in 8-12 weeks or you can pay the premium to take a copy home today."
US Government: "You don't own anything stored in the cloud."
Kim Dotcom: "Sweet. The US government has declared cloud stored data is not 'owned.' If you don't own it, if it's not yours, how could you possibly be liable for it? Everyone please subscribe to my new service fuMPAAItsAllInTheCloud.com!"
"Our first choice would be to give each pilot an iPod, but Apple is notoriously anti-hacking and anti-open source, plus you have to pay them ridiculous licensing fees to get access to their USB interface."
If your first choice would otherwise be an iPod but you can't hack their USB... don't. You don't need to.
Every time I ride my motorcycle, I control my iPhone playlists just fine without anything USB driven. The bike headset uses bluetooth and gives me play, pause, skipping in both directions, volume, controls.
I'm guessing what's already on your flight controls is no more than that. So find someone else who's already done the work and piggyback off it. All you need to do is wire your controls to the controls on the pre-existing device and you're done.
The iPod/iPhone connects in via aux so it's not hard wired. The controls themselves, you were always going to have to reconnect and get FAA approval anyway. If you want to save even more money and go with a pre bluetooth spec iPod, bluetooth receivers that mount in to their dock connectors are $50. Should be solveable in an afternoon and you get your first choice of player.
Note: It's pretty much taken as a confirmed rumor that Apple's changing dock connectors with the new iPhone. That said, bluetooth means you're only replacing the charging cable anyway.
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When you're referencing all Mexicans and call them murderers and rapists and some, you assume, are good people... You're a racist.
When you use the possessive to refer to African Americans... OK, then you're probably just ignorant.
When you call out Hiliary over Bill's infidelity yet the woman you're having an affair with gets caught screwing someone else under a lifeguard tower... You're a hypocrite as well as a cuckhold.
When you tell everyone how successful a businessman you are, having vastly lost money compared to if you'd just invested the money daddy gave you in the S&P500 and then claim the tax credit for earning UNDER $500K in NYC for each of the last three years, to go along with your many corporate and personal bankruptcies, you're a failure.
Though, actually, to be fair, I doubt he is a racist. To be a racist, you have to hold those beliefs. He's just hitched his wagon to those who hold them. He fits the definition of a sociopathic narcissist, a very scared and shallow little man who'll say and do whatever it takes to get what he needs.
In that regard, I actually feel sorry for the racists who do vote for him...
Those who vote against him always knew he was a sociopathic narcissist.
Those who vote for him, who really hoped he meant whatever he spouted to get their vote, are going to be the ones left with a far nastier shock when they no longer empower him and he needs to chase someone else.
When he bashed the Muslims, I said nothing because I wasn't a Muslim.
When he came for the Mexicans, I said nothing because I wasn't a Mexican.
And when he came for my guns, there was no one left to speak up for me.
I'm going to agree with you but only in the hopes we can become friends and you connect me with whoever sold you what you were smoking.
Neither party is who they were in twenty years ago. If you look at the degree of polarization, even then, there were some who could work across the aisles.
Go back as far as St Ronald and you get someone with more in common with current democrats than republicans.
Go twenty years further back and you have broadly un recognizable parties pivoting on some of their traditional issues as other of their traditional issues drove them to do so.
Go back half a century more and you've got parties no modern zealot could agree with as each held political territory that deeply appeals and deeply disgusts each of the current parties.
Just because a party once did something the better part of a century or two ago really means nothing in a world where 20-30 years can make a party unrecognizable to many of its old stalwarts.
Or, you know, whatever your talk radio of choice tells you.
Now can I get some of that weed?
We can't manage to stop looting the social security pot long enough to pay a decent pension to the elderly. So, somehow, we're going to get it right with a larger chunk of the population?
Not saying it's a good or a bad idea. Just observing that people have a gift for screwing up even the best of ideas.
"The other more obvious risk is that such a system could take jobs away from those in need."
Social Media Nipple Checkers Local 857, like my father and his father before him.
It's hard work on the Internet nippleface but we're a proud people.
Some people might say it's false drama, lamenting the decline of an industry that only goes back a dozen years but we original "ought fourer families" as we like to call ourselves have never known any other way.
I have friends in who were Internet Radio DJs for the four hours that was a thing until smart playlists replaced them. Many of them have never found employment since.
I've got a few years old Samsung Smart TV.
Every month or two, I get a notice about another service being discontinued. I think I'm down to maybe three whole apps that still work on it.
Sure, these are invasive ads that weren't a part of the product I bought. But at least Samsung is finally adding in place of their constant stripping of functionality.
When you're a Smart TV owner, you take victories where you can find them.
Programmers write code that's bug free in test conditions, not in real world applications.
Every field tends to work to succeed at what they're explicitly judged for, ignoring what they're not.
I spent several years trying to get help for dyslexia. A lot of school counsellors assumed it was what I was dealing with.
Right up to the point one caught that what I was actually doing was self taught speed reading everything and couldn't switch the damn thing off.
You have no idea how annoying it is to know a piece of information MUST exist within a passage but no amount of rereading, trying to slow yourself down, will get you to stop skipping over it because your brain has already decided it knows what is said.
As a simple example: Bob has $10. He pays dollars in tax. What percentage does Bob pay?
It's a standard question pattern. You know damn well that there must be an amount of dollars Bob paid in tax. You know the question likely has something like TWO in there and the answer would be twenty percent. But you read it over and over and the TWO never reveals itself because your brain has already decided it knows what the passage says.
It made chunks of my degree miserable. I knew the concepts, could study faster than most others, yet kept missing key parts of often simple questions in the exams.
Once I learned what I was doing, a hell of a lot of practice has weeded most of it back out at the expense of reading slower.
So, yeah, speed reading is great. Until it isn't. And then really isn't when you can't stop it.
Remember: Far more senators have been arrested for sexual crimes in bathrooms than trans people using the bathroom of their identity.
Let's pass laws banning politicians from public restrooms and THEN worry about whether there're actually any issues with the trans community.
Having worked my way up through every level, the biggest thing I've learned is "correct" is amassively subjective concept, based on value statements people at other levels don't see.
To take a deliberately simple case:
I would have declared a manager insane for buying Office365 licenses. After all, you can buy copies outright for less.
Except, as that manager, any savings I get are dwarfed by the pain in the ass of keeping licensing info. Some idiot loses the info and you're out far more than the difference when you have to re-buy. Or you don't re-buy and you're vulnerable to huge fines. Or you have someone dot every i and cross every t and you pay more for their salary than you save. Or Office365 keeps everyone licensed and demonstrably so.
Same goes for commenting.
Earlier in my career, commenting was slow. I could understand my code just fine without it. It was clearly readable after all. What idiot manager wants less productive code after I jumped through hoops?
Now I've paid the price of countless devs who write code no one else can follow. If watched countless more declare they have to rewrite everything because the previous guy who swore his code was readable wrote something the next guy swears is not. My perspective is completely different. I'd now rather each person codes a little slower so the company moves faster overall.
Who's right? Everyone has a good perspective but each is colored by the values that they weigh in.
I know my devs often think my calls are "wrong" because they assign different values to those I do... But I also know I've been put in the position exactly because I have the perspective I do. The best I can do is try to explain and help them understand, listening when they genuinely see something I've missed.
"The first cause of death for New York City children under 13"
How many deaths do children get in New York?
First cause of death: Traffic.
Second cause of death: Silver bullets.
Third cause of death: Staking.
Fourth cause of death: Beheading.
Fifth cause of death: Kill it with fire.
Sixth cause of death: Exorcism.
Seventh cause of death: Dream Warriors.
What other issues do Amazon, DHL, Google, and other need to solve?
People. Bored, often too intelligent for their own good, people.
How long before trolls figure out they can drive their cars close enough and in such a manner that self driving cars execute lane changes to avoid accidents and pull off the freeway? Or until someone realizes they can jam the car's sensors and the poor passenger, with no access to a steering wheel, can't convince the car to pull out of the open parking spot it's convinced it's barricaded in?
How long before an Amazon delivery drone comes in to a house that's observed to regularly get deliveries and gets a blanket tossed over it before being purloined by nerds who just got a sweet free drone to try hacking?
Wind gusts happen. You can factor in for a typical wind gust, a severe wind gust, a once in a century wind gust. You can factor in for different types of hardware failure, for power loss, etc. You can factor in for trees, for tall buildings, for cables... They're finite problem sets.
But bored people? They're infinite.
So I'll have to rewire my house every couple of years when they change from one proprietary cable standard to another?
iPod: Firewire. Buy lots of firewire connectors.
Newer iPod/iPhone: Dock connector. Toss all of your firewire accessories and move to dock connectors.
Newer iPhones: Lightning connector. Toss all of your dock connector accessories, move to lightning.
Everyone else gets to stick with USB that doesn't carry a $10 premium per cable/device because Apple just invented another proprietary standard.
Absolutely do what you can to work with the moment. But... While the doctors may be giving you bleak prognoses, from experience, they're pretty much winging it when it comes to the brain.
My wife was in a massive car accident. Shattered arm, collapsed lung, multiple breaks to her jaw, cracked eye socket, brain injuries. They induced a coma to keep her alive long enough to get her to a major hospital, called family to her bedside with a prognosis of, "IF she survives the night, it's 50:50 if she'll live." At that point, her brain stem was busy trying to retreat out of the back of her neck.
It was two weeks before they could get any response out of her, another two before she was aware. At that point, they wanted to amputate her arm and told her parents she'd never walk more than a few paces at best, would never look after herself.
Consent was given for the amputation though her mother asked the surgeon to simply do whatever he'd do for his own daughter. He spent eleven hours wiring it together and told her mother he'd most likely be back in to amputate but he'd given it a shot.
Fast forward two years, the arm survived. The girl who'd never walk more than a few paces was out of her wheelchair and starting to try to build a life on her own. In a settlement hearing (she'd bought "unlimited" coverage car insurance for the wreck she was in but there was small print saying they could modify at any time and they swapped it to $100k max five days before the accident) they acknowledged she was lucky to be walking but even the insurance lawyers, whose job was to minimize her injuries, acknowledged she'd probably never be able to return to school. No longer being able to read was a big part of that. And a huge loss to a National Merit scholarship winner, English major and librarian.
About another two years later... I'd taught her how to read again. She'd been living on her own. She returned to school. Started off barely making Cs. GPA went up every semester. She got straight As in her final semester. She now has two degrees, is a certified personal trainer and works in physical therapy. If she doesn't tell people about her injuries, they've absolutely no idea. Not bad for someone who the doctors declared would probably die, would never walk again, never look after herself and never return to school.
To message to take from this is that Traumatic Brain Injuries are absolute bitches but the medical profession has educated guesses about outcomes at best. You read up on neuroplasticity and the like and you realize they're really only just beginning to get an idea of what's possible. There are even stories of key researchers whose family members had strokes, who ignored all of the expert advice and got them back moving again by doing everything "wrong."
So days, weeks, months in... Just because the doctors tell you to prepare for the worst, don't give up. The brain does amazing things, often things they're completely clueless about it being able to do.
Tarantino's lawyers are arguing that it wasn't available online - until Gawker offered to pay anyone who leaked a copy.
It's not illegal to report a murder. It is illegal to say, "I'll pay $10,000 for the exclusive story for the person who kills my wife."
IANAL and I've no idea whether that analogy holds true for copyright but it's apparently the angle Tarantino's lawyers are pursuing - that it's not the linking so much as the linking to an act they solicited.
“The South Dakota fair is close and gives our kids another opportunity to present their work,” Scribner said. “I think that was some of our motivation, and it did give our kids another chance to qualify.”
The school absolutely used multiple fairs to get extra chances to qualify - they outright say so. And that's exactly why the rule's in place.
They put the rule in place to stop people failing at one using other fairs as a chance to succeed at another. He failed at one then used another to succeed. The school uses the second fair for exactly that purpose. And then they're shocked when they discover there was a rule to prevent the loophole they thought they'd discovered. That's not an unintended consequence. That's the intended consequence.
Simcity was just a botched attempt to do what mmo do.
No. SimCity was a blatant attempt to impose DRM through the absolute lie that powerful calculations were carried out on the server.
Simple logic would tell you that it was a lie: To claim the servers offered more power than the desktop machines is to imply EA/Maxis stood up a server farm that was "more powerful" than gamers' home rigs. Even without the GPU, you've got to figure that'd be a couple of hundred dollars (let's say $200). Figure on gamers using the game at least 20% of the time during the launch month. That's $40 in server costs... For a $60 game. Yeah, sure they did that.
Same goes for Microsoft's current claim. The XboxOne comes with an 8 core processor and 500gb HDD. Three times the power of each, huh? Even cheap, non backed up storage alone, that's $60-80 in disk space. Which is illogical as 1.5TB would take forever at most people's net connection speeds. Add in another couple of hundred for the processors? For a console that'll launch at, what, $500? Consoles that are famous for running at a loss at launch and slim margins thereafter. And half the retail price goes to server AWESOMEZ?
In both cases, claims of amazing server power is an absolute lie to justify the real goal: Force users to connect to the server, attached to a single key you can track, piracy ceases to be such an issue.
And if there was any doubt about just how little processing power SimCity's servers provided, despite claims that hugely complex tasks could be offloaded, making a game like SC5 impossible without the cloud? The game keeps running, just fine, for a good twenty minutes after it loses its net connection. Cloud saves and a microscopic amount of processing to say, "this is the state of other cities in the region," is about it.
MMOs handle a huge amount of game state on the servers that has to be synchronized in real time. The difficulty of piracy is a nice side effect but a side effect nonetheless. SimCity 5 and the XBoxOne are both blatant attempts to make piracy as difficult as possible while waving the false flag of awesome server side processing.
Isn't the whole point of medals to reward someone for putting their life on the line to protect their country?
That, sir, is un-American thinking. Those brave young men and women put their carpal tunnels on the line for you every day and they haven't even been granted a Purple Mouse in recognition.
There's still plenty we don't know, but so much of it is highly specialized that many breakthroughs are understood by only a handful.
Spare a thought for poor Charles Darwin. He published Origin Of The Species in 1859 and, over a century and a half later, only 39% of Americans fully believe it.
At least Samuel Pierpoint Langley, Svante Arrhenius and Arvid Högbom have managed to convince 63% that global climate change is real and they've only been going since the 1890s.
Still, could be worse: Galileo was imprisoned for the remainder of his life and his writing banned in 1618. The establishment (Catholic Church) didn't lift that interdiction on heliocentrism until 1822. Darwin's got another half century before he reaches Galileo's 204 years.
If an autonomous car runs on ethanol, does it get a DUI?
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You can buy tubs and boxes of generic bricks, pick a brick or themed groups such as all windows and doors or all wheels.
The Creator range is where you find your classic feel sets. Generic buildings and cars with multiple ideas per set.
City is still there if you want the early 80s style minifigs and fire stations vibe.
And for those with a sense of the dramatic, they have their huge modular buildings line.
Stores don't sell them due to licensed sets selling faster. But Lego absolutely still makes "plain kits."
You can absolutely buy raw bricks and simple generic sets still. You just need to go to Lego's website, Legoland or somewhere like Amazon. If you go to Target or Walmart, they'll sell you the odd tub but everything else is branded because that's what sells better. Where shelf space isn't a premium, you can find the whole range. So is it Lego selling out or the retailers?
You can buy tubs and boxes of generic bricks, pick a brick or themed groups such as all windows and doors or all wheels.
The Creator range is where you find your classic feel sets. Generic buildings and cars with multiple ideas per set.
City is still there if you want the early 80s style minifigs and fire stations vibe.
And for those with a sense of the dramatic, they have their huge modular buildings line.
If you want "traditional lego," it's very much still available. You just can't buy it in stores because the stores choose to stock the faster selling branded sets. I'd argue that's not Lego selling out - as they still make their product for anyone who wants it - but rather the retailers doing so.
Resigning is the RightThingToDo(TM), it's the ultimate apology
His payoff is equal to one year's pay of £450,000 (approaching $700,000).
Which he gets to claim for 54 days of work that he's also already been paid for. By quitting now, he's made just a hair under £10,000/day ($16,000/day), including weekends.
If he'd stayed for five years plus a final year's payoff, he'd have been paid a fifth of that rate.
I wish I could fail that hard.
"When I buy a car the dealer doesn't tell me that I have to buy a car alarm with it at extra cost."
You've not bought a car from a dealer lot recently, have you?
Expect to find LoJack (even in markets where the local police have bought zero units), alarms, windshield VIN etching, clear paint protectors, sealants, rust proofing, teflon upholstery protection and a wide variety of exciting floor mats pre installed and added on to the price of every actually available car, taking them way above and beyond the "Starting From..." low, low advertized MSRP on the banners around the lot. Listen to the radio commercials where whichever "mile of cars" with "over X thousand vehicles to choose from!" has "three at this price."
The difference between Blizzard and a car lot is, if Blizzard were a car lot, they'd be telling you, "We're sorry, the only copies we've got on hand today already have their accounts hooked to a validator and we can't remove it. We could order you a copy without a validator in 8-12 weeks or you can pay the premium to take a copy home today."
US Government: "You don't own anything stored in the cloud."
Kim Dotcom: "Sweet. The US government has declared cloud stored data is not 'owned.' If you don't own it, if it's not yours, how could you possibly be liable for it? Everyone please subscribe to my new service fuMPAAItsAllInTheCloud.com!"
"Our first choice would be to give each pilot an iPod, but Apple is notoriously anti-hacking and anti-open source, plus you have to pay them ridiculous licensing fees to get access to their USB interface."
If your first choice would otherwise be an iPod but you can't hack their USB... don't. You don't need to.
Every time I ride my motorcycle, I control my iPhone playlists just fine without anything USB driven. The bike headset uses bluetooth and gives me play, pause, skipping in both directions, volume, controls.
I'm guessing what's already on your flight controls is no more than that. So find someone else who's already done the work and piggyback off it. All you need to do is wire your controls to the controls on the pre-existing device and you're done.
The iPod/iPhone connects in via aux so it's not hard wired. The controls themselves, you were always going to have to reconnect and get FAA approval anyway. If you want to save even more money and go with a pre bluetooth spec iPod, bluetooth receivers that mount in to their dock connectors are $50. Should be solveable in an afternoon and you get your first choice of player.
Note: It's pretty much taken as a confirmed rumor that Apple's changing dock connectors with the new iPhone. That said, bluetooth means you're only replacing the charging cable anyway.