Heck, I'd even do it if I had to drive to a local spot and pick them up. Why? Because I'm sick and tired of having to goto one local store (Wegmans) with their idea of sale prices - 2 for $5....
Let me order or queue what I need during the week and I'll decide when to go get it. No lists, no coupons.
A former engineer at our company ran into a problem- his 'mac' produced help files would only work in version 1.0 of the context software, and the minimum upgrade was to 3.1. 3.0 was the last version that was backwards compatible with 1.0.
In short, it was a cluster f.... but he solved it brilliantly.
Looking at the header of the file... he discovered that the FIRST damn byte was off by 1 hex code. So all of the tech support calls, all of the demands for fixing this- all of these issues and being told there was NO WAY to make the earlier files compatible with the most recent... were bullshit. He hex-edited the old files and they worked perfectly fine.
I wish he still worked for us instead of being laid off. His intelligence is missed.
I've tried a few dozen different methods of making backups and nothing ever really works- if you want cheap, it won't be automated or simple. If you want simple, it won't be cheap. If you want automated, you might miss something.
While 16 gb of data seems like a lot there are days I shoot 16 gb before lunch- when mentoring HS students and filming events you can blow through 16gb very quickly. Now there are some great photo applications that offer you opportunities to back up everything, but I'm just really not into those as I don't trust them.
My suggestions, which work for me-
DIM (Digital Image Mover). Download, rename, renumber, date, and CRC check your files. (I really wish.... it had a dual copy method).
Immediately burn a DVD backup. I've gotten lax here because I started shooting more... otherwise......insert another 500gb to 1tb drive into an external e-sata or usb3 reader and copy all files that you just downloaded (or run DIM again) to the external device.
Duplicate that a third time.
Disconnect both copies.
When one is full, add another drive and store off site.
I have about 10 different HDs in rotation and store images on my media server as well as the internal hardware RAID-5 system. Hard drives go to my Father-in-law's place for backup.
This has been covered half a dozen times yet no one in the media gets it: 3D that is being popularized strains the eyes and messes with the brain. I've yet to see a movie that states you shouldn't drive for 2 hours after watching it to let your depth perception recover- because it has been hacked at with the method of presentation.
Everyone LOVES 3D that really pops- and to get that level of pop the eyes must be further and further strained outwards. While this is fine for the short term, immediate needs doing it for any length of time is a huge stressor.
Unfortunately I am at home and don't have any of the papers that were published in the late 80's and 90's about these issues. Sega (damn memory) had a unit that was going to be 3D capable but ended up canning it for a variety of issues- including the health of children. Obviously now adays that isn't a concern and money, as always, comes first.
I know of some military groups that prohibit their members from operating a vehicle for 8 hours after performing 2-4 hours of stereo work. They must be driven home by a buddy. That's not over-reacting in my opinion.
Crewmen of submarines must recover their 3D vision after spending so long cooped up with nothing 'far' available to be seen. They're also banned from operating vehicles while in port for some duration.
Why is it any surprise that a developing brain can be traumatized by seeing something that it wasn't wired to see?
Go ahead- screw your kids up. Mine won't be. I've got hundreds of other ways to mess them up:)
Contrary to the humorous jokes about popping balloons, mentos and coke, etc- these do have significant explosive force. When they're at full pressure they can maim. While the first google search of "dry ice bomb accident" turns up a youtube video of a small bottle, one can also see videos from Mythbusters where they used 2 liter containers.
Very quickly you can see that putting one of these inside of a mailbox can do serious damage.
These are no different than the drain bombs of my 'youth' when kids were stuffing them in mailboxes everywhere. Those did cause serious injuries- given the reaction of the lye and the shrapnel from the explosions.
Should Mom be charged? No, she shouldn't, and there should be some common sense applied. But since a 14 year old can't exactly buy dry ice (at least not at the places I fill my CO2 tanks at) then she was supplying him- and if she wasn't supervising him doing this... there is a degree of recklessness that needs to be addressed.
Maybe she doesn't understand how dangerous these things can be? I doubt the kid was wearing a face shield with gloves and an apron to protect himself incase of premature detonation.
As a society we all would pay if this child was injured. That's the overriding concern- and society would be screaming right now if the police had showed up, said "Oh, OK, keep at it" and left... and then the kid was in an accident and cost (lets say an eye) his sight.
Our course was easy. Given some inputs, make them match exactly via the diff command to the outputs. It was really pathetically easy to pass, unless you mis-implemented something (happens).
Code review was checked via a number of methods- usually more hype than reality, but it still happened.
I had a couple of different students submit the same code- different names, variables, orders, etc. What gave it up? They had extra spaces at the end of the lines. Usually two, sometimes three- as if the tab was replaced and rounded up. This matched, space for space, for each function regardless of the name of the function or the variables.
Not always is a common solution the right one. Many times they lack the requisite low level IO needed to do the job right.
Take, for instance, DDC/CI. I don't know what you're doing and that's fine, but in my line of work we have to talk to the monitor. You ain't doin' that on a virtual machine.
Just because it's virtual doesn't mean it's better.
Yes, I understand it needed to be connected to the internet. However UBISOFT has failed in their promise to provide the necessary connectivity to execute the game.
Reminds me of a Dilbert- where Dogbert sells tickets on his 'Dogbert Air', but there are no planes.
Of course since the game has been opened, it can't be returned. It would be interesting to go the Credit Card approach that the item was not substantially as promised and provide the attempts at resolution that have been made.
Execute a chargeback, and then when you're in the clear destroy your copy of the disk.
(Personally then go outside and get some fresh air, but not everyone can do that)
I was diagnosed with stage 5 cancer at age 17. I'm still alive at age 33.
There's not a day that goes by when I don't look at my disfigured face and wonder what thing would have been like if I'd caught it sooner- according to one doc, I'd have been dead because my body wouldn't have fought it off. Who knows.
But anything that gets a genetic component and allows them to focus better on killing off the cells that have tormented me for over a dozen years I'll be more than grateful. There isn't a trip to the doctor that doesn't send shiver of fear down my spine, whether or not I'll be able to continue to provide for my family- whether or not that cough that started was due to pollen or something else... whether or not that pain in the side is a kidney stone or something more sinister.
Cancer is a killer. Even the survivors die a little every day.
It works great, or so I'm told. They're able to get cops to where the shooter fired within minutes- and in plenty of time to round up witnesses who swear they "saw nuttin".
There's been at least one drive by in my 'work' neighborhood, and about a dozen+ deaths within a mile. Two bullets in our building. One in the front door within 5 minutes of me entering it (now THAT will freak you out- come into work, forget something, go back to the car and the door has been shot).
When I read the article I came up with over a dozen questions, none of which were adequately explained. Thus:
Other sources of carbon in the batch- You've got oak, the toasting process, blending of different types of oak/wines, reuse of barrels, different toasted barrels, different types of oak in the barrel, the possibility of a really old oak barrel (neutral) used for fermentation and combination of items such as StaVin's Oak Cubes or Oak Staves, (two different sources of carbon)...
Oak is aged anywhere from 2-3 years before toasting. Toasted oak could be years different than what the year of the vintage is. Oak Trees are significant sources of variability. (Toasting oak releases sugars and flavours into the wine).
Chaptalization is another source- sometimes wines are started with diluted or various mixes of sugar and water to strengthen the yeast growth. You have a grape must that is a little low in sugar- so add more sugar. Where did it come from? Who knows. Probably not beet sugar, if you know what I mean.
Say you have a stuck fermentation- you take some wine out, dilute it, add more sugar, wine, repeat- eventually bringing up the level until the yeast are strong enough to take back over.
Finally, you have blends. To the best of my knowledge a blended wine doesn't have to state the year or can state the year of the major component - depending on the laws of the region.
Actually, my wife and I make our own wine. We compare with other neighbors that do- and sometimes the 'vintages' are expressed in single digits- representing the number of WEEKS it's aged.
(And not all homemade wine is crap. I follow the same processes the big wineries do- even down to a sub-micron filter for clarification and stabilization. I use the same chemicals, same oaks, etc. My wines tend to be very good)...
Well, actually, it's around 3.5 HD, but it's the thought that counts.
This baby is awesome. I get to look at tons of displays for work and this one still takes the cake- it's made by Barco, is incredibly bright, has a built in calibration puck, comes with some decent software (ie, easily 'configured' for our purposes), and all around blows the socks off of everything on the market.
Don't mind the $16K price tag.
The diffuser used is so clean you could eat off it- none of that nasty subsurface artifacting that looks like dust on your screen (speckle). Just pure, rich, saturated colors that are accurately represented with no TFT structure to worry about.
Now, IBM had the T221 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_T220/T221_LCD_monitors) which had a native resolution of 3840x2200- at 200ppi- so that your eyes could never make out the substructure of the pixels. Best of all the monitor had hardware interpolation- it could be used at 1/2x to basically present the user a clean screen with nothing to distract your eyes from. IBM did this back in 2000!
How you stitch together a book doesn't matter if it's for your own personal use.
Now, if you want to go commercial you've got quite a few things to figure out.
Regardless, what you're wanting to do is basically orthorectification. There is an open source package out there that does that. Figuring out how to do so would be left to you, but I'd recommend using some sort of yellow projection grid (or red from a red laser) to map the distortion and correct it by treating it as a DEM.
Poor man method- so long as you only want bw scans:)
When I was much much younger I was purchasing a violin. While at this shop the owner had a 'cheap' Stradivarius. After I had selected the instrument I wanted (this had been going on for weeks of trying them) the owner let me hold, and play, his 'cheap' Stradivarius.
The sound that effused out of that instrument can not be put into words to hear and feel... it made the one I selected sound as if it were a cheap knockoff made of plastic. The tones could not even be compared in the same room- one was transmitted through steel cups and a string, the other was singing in front of you.
To this day that is one of the more emotional feelings of music I have ever felt.
To have that sacred sound reproduced for everyone to have access to- I don't know. It is such a beautiful instrument that, currently, only the elite can have and play (most instruments are endowed to players- on 'loan'). Should everyone have access... would it be the same?
The Ultra 27 was released with 2 PCIe x16 slots.... and it wasn't until we'd bought the damn things that we found out you can't put two FX-5600s in there- the case was designed to prevent it.
What's that got to do with their SPARC roadmap? Next x86 box we buy will be intel reference design. It's cheaper.
(not to mention there are bugs with the XVR-300 and the FX series of cards where you can't turn on 3 heads- it's 2 or 4 only)
Twice in my life have I been in a situation that would have resulted in a fatality while driving. Both times (and to this day) I get the shakes while thinking about it.
The first time a woman made a left turn while I was entering the intersection. She was oblivious- never even looked. I saw her little girl in the front seat staring at me, wide eyed with fear as my grand prix got closer and closer. I locked up the brakes, yanked the wheel hard left, skidded into oncoming traffic, went between two cars (THANK GOD they were paying attention) and ended up facing the wrong way- but everyone was alive- and the **((#(# woman never even slowed down. Funny thing- cops told me later that had I hit anyone it would have been 100% my fault.
Second time a little girl ran across the street in a crosswalk while her wheelchair bound (larger than life) mother followed her. She didn't stop running. Cars on either side... don't know how that one got dodged. I personally wish the US was more like the UK in this regards, then I'd be OK stopping and not having to worry about being rear-ended.
Either way- had I been inattentive due to an electronic device there would have been a death- no doubt in my mind. And I would have deserved every inch of that penalty meted out.
But having done everything possible to avoid an accident (say in the first case) and been unable to- no, I don't think I would deserve prison time.
Oh no doubt at all- I was more throwing my support around continued testing and trials. There aint no easy cure- and anything easy and free is probably not worth it. I've got to believe nature would have already evolved a solution if it was 'easy'...
My body also walled off all the tumors and tissue that had been affected- so I may have already been primed to attack the cells.
I underwent the experimental treatment in 1994 at the age of 17- I had Melanoma that had metastasized to my lymph nodes. Each doctor I spoke with basically said I'd be dead.
You'll note the year- 1994- and it is now 2009. I'm celebrating my 15 year anniversary of having my 'face lift' and 7 hours of surgery to remove all of the cancer, salivary gland, neck muscles, and lymph nodes from the right half of my head. My wrestling career is over (it never got off the ground, hahaha!) but I'm alive.
Not only that, I've lived long enough to get married and have a daughter.
Was the treatment effective? Hard to say. I certainly reacted during the treatment- a couple of irradiated cancer cells and some crab blood had a MASSIVE reaction on my body- I could barely move the day after each injection. I was told that the treatment wasn't promising and that no further trials were done.
So, having been through it- I'll tell you that I believe it worked in my case. I also gained super human resistance to colds and flus afterwards for about 5 years.... unfortunately since my wife and I have had our little 'germ factory' I know now that I'm paying for that immunity with every cold I've gotten since.
(I did have one side effect- tooth pain. Excruciating, body numbing, on the floor curled up in fetal position tooth pain. Just give me the pliers already)
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How about making it a crime to have a robocall from a politician that has spoofed caller ID?
I'm pretty sure when I was getting phone calls for the 000-000-0000 was not a valid phone number.... and was simply used to block anon call blocking.
Heck, I'd even do it if I had to drive to a local spot and pick them up. Why? Because I'm sick and tired of having to goto one local store (Wegmans) with their idea of sale prices - 2 for $5....
Let me order or queue what I need during the week and I'll decide when to go get it. No lists, no coupons.
Not the software, but the file format.
A former engineer at our company ran into a problem- his 'mac' produced help files would only work in version 1.0 of the context software, and the minimum upgrade was to 3.1. 3.0 was the last version that was backwards compatible with 1.0.
In short, it was a cluster f.... but he solved it brilliantly.
Looking at the header of the file... he discovered that the FIRST damn byte was off by 1 hex code. So all of the tech support calls, all of the demands for fixing this- all of these issues and being told there was NO WAY to make the earlier files compatible with the most recent ... were bullshit. He hex-edited the old files and they worked perfectly fine.
I wish he still worked for us instead of being laid off. His intelligence is missed.
I've tried a few dozen different methods of making backups and nothing ever really works- if you want cheap, it won't be automated or simple. If you want simple, it won't be cheap. If you want automated, you might miss something.
While 16 gb of data seems like a lot there are days I shoot 16 gb before lunch- when mentoring HS students and filming events you can blow through 16gb very quickly. Now there are some great photo applications that offer you opportunities to back up everything, but I'm just really not into those as I don't trust them.
My suggestions, which work for me-
DIM (Digital Image Mover). Download, rename, renumber, date, and CRC check your files.
(I really wish.... it had a dual copy method).
Immediately burn a DVD backup. I've gotten lax here because I started shooting more... otherwise... ...insert another 500gb to 1tb drive into an external e-sata or usb3 reader and copy all files that you just downloaded (or run DIM again) to the external device.
Duplicate that a third time.
Disconnect both copies.
When one is full, add another drive and store off site.
I have about 10 different HDs in rotation and store images on my media server as well as the internal hardware RAID-5 system. Hard drives go to my Father-in-law's place for backup.
This has been covered half a dozen times yet no one in the media gets it: 3D that is being popularized strains the eyes and messes with the brain. I've yet to see a movie that states you shouldn't drive for 2 hours after watching it to let your depth perception recover- because it has been hacked at with the method of presentation.
Everyone LOVES 3D that really pops- and to get that level of pop the eyes must be further and further strained outwards. While this is fine for the short term, immediate needs doing it for any length of time is a huge stressor.
Unfortunately I am at home and don't have any of the papers that were published in the late 80's and 90's about these issues. Sega (damn memory) had a unit that was going to be 3D capable but ended up canning it for a variety of issues- including the health of children. Obviously now adays that isn't a concern and money, as always, comes first.
I know of some military groups that prohibit their members from operating a vehicle for 8 hours after performing 2-4 hours of stereo work. They must be driven home by a buddy. That's not over-reacting in my opinion.
Crewmen of submarines must recover their 3D vision after spending so long cooped up with nothing 'far' available to be seen. They're also banned from operating vehicles while in port for some duration.
Why is it any surprise that a developing brain can be traumatized by seeing something that it wasn't wired to see?
Go ahead- screw your kids up. Mine won't be. I've got hundreds of other ways to mess them up :)
Contrary to the humorous jokes about popping balloons, mentos and coke, etc- these do have significant explosive force. When they're at full pressure they can maim. While the first google search of "dry ice bomb accident" turns up a youtube video of a small bottle, one can also see videos from Mythbusters where they used 2 liter containers.
Very quickly you can see that putting one of these inside of a mailbox can do serious damage.
These are no different than the drain bombs of my 'youth' when kids were stuffing them in mailboxes everywhere. Those did cause serious injuries- given the reaction of the lye and the shrapnel from the explosions.
Should Mom be charged? No, she shouldn't, and there should be some common sense applied. But since a 14 year old can't exactly buy dry ice (at least not at the places I fill my CO2 tanks at) then she was supplying him- and if she wasn't supervising him doing this... there is a degree of recklessness that needs to be addressed.
Maybe she doesn't understand how dangerous these things can be? I doubt the kid was wearing a face shield with gloves and an apron to protect himself incase of premature detonation.
As a society we all would pay if this child was injured. That's the overriding concern- and society would be screaming right now if the police had showed up, said "Oh, OK, keep at it" and left... and then the kid was in an accident and cost (lets say an eye) his sight.
You can't have it both ways.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_T220/T221_LCD_monitors
We've got a few. They're awesome. You can't see structure more than 2 feet away from the monitor- even with corrected vision.
Now motion performance, that's another issue...
When it can play Flight of the Bumblebee, better than Itzhak Perlman and/or Joshua Bell, then I'll take notice...
Or better still, when it can have new music 'downloaded' into it and interpreted based upon previous styles (such as baroque style)...
Our course was easy. Given some inputs, make them match exactly via the diff command to the outputs. It was really pathetically easy to pass, unless you mis-implemented something (happens).
Code review was checked via a number of methods- usually more hype than reality, but it still happened.
I had a couple of different students submit the same code- different names, variables, orders, etc. What gave it up? They had extra spaces at the end of the lines. Usually two, sometimes three- as if the tab was replaced and rounded up. This matched, space for space, for each function regardless of the name of the function or the variables.
100$ fraudulent. Global search and replace.
Prof passed them both. No warnings, no nothing.
I stopped being a TA at that point.
Not always is a common solution the right one. Many times they lack the requisite low level IO needed to do the job right.
Take, for instance, DDC/CI. I don't know what you're doing and that's fine, but in my line of work we have to talk to the monitor. You ain't doin' that on a virtual machine.
Just because it's virtual doesn't mean it's better.
Yes, I understand it needed to be connected to the internet. However UBISOFT has failed in their promise to provide the necessary connectivity to execute the game.
Reminds me of a Dilbert- where Dogbert sells tickets on his 'Dogbert Air', but there are no planes.
Of course since the game has been opened, it can't be returned. It would be interesting to go the Credit Card approach that the item was not substantially as promised and provide the attempts at resolution that have been made.
Execute a chargeback, and then when you're in the clear destroy your copy of the disk.
(Personally then go outside and get some fresh air, but not everyone can do that)
I was diagnosed with stage 5 cancer at age 17. I'm still alive at age 33.
There's not a day that goes by when I don't look at my disfigured face and wonder what thing would have been like if I'd caught it sooner- according to one doc, I'd have been dead because my body wouldn't have fought it off. Who knows.
But anything that gets a genetic component and allows them to focus better on killing off the cells that have tormented me for over a dozen years I'll be more than grateful. There isn't a trip to the doctor that doesn't send shiver of fear down my spine, whether or not I'll be able to continue to provide for my family- whether or not that cough that started was due to pollen or something else... whether or not that pain in the side is a kidney stone or something more sinister.
Cancer is a killer. Even the survivors die a little every day.
It works great, or so I'm told. They're able to get cops to where the shooter fired within minutes- and in plenty of time to round up witnesses who swear they "saw nuttin".
There's been at least one drive by in my 'work' neighborhood, and about a dozen+ deaths within a mile. Two bullets in our building. One in the front door within 5 minutes of me entering it (now THAT will freak you out- come into work, forget something, go back to the car and the door has been shot).
When I read the article I came up with over a dozen questions, none of which were adequately explained. Thus:
Other sources of carbon in the batch- You've got oak, the toasting process, blending of different types of oak/wines, reuse of barrels, different toasted barrels, different types of oak in the barrel, the possibility of a really old oak barrel (neutral) used for fermentation and combination of items such as StaVin's Oak Cubes or Oak Staves, (two different sources of carbon)...
Oak is aged anywhere from 2-3 years before toasting. Toasted oak could be years different than what the year of the vintage is. Oak Trees are significant sources of variability. (Toasting oak releases sugars and flavours into the wine).
Chaptalization is another source- sometimes wines are started with diluted or various mixes of sugar and water to strengthen the yeast growth. You have a grape must that is a little low in sugar- so add more sugar. Where did it come from? Who knows. Probably not beet sugar, if you know what I mean.
Say you have a stuck fermentation- you take some wine out, dilute it, add more sugar, wine, repeat- eventually bringing up the level until the yeast are strong enough to take back over.
Finally, you have blends. To the best of my knowledge a blended wine doesn't have to state the year or can state the year of the major component - depending on the laws of the region.
All in all... not the best article.
Actually, my wife and I make our own wine. We compare with other neighbors that do- and sometimes the 'vintages' are expressed in single digits- representing the number of WEEKS it's aged.
(And not all homemade wine is crap. I follow the same processes the big wineries do- even down to a sub-micron filter for clarification and stabilization. I use the same chemicals, same oaks, etc. My wines tend to be very good)...
Well, actually, it's around 3.5 HD, but it's the thought that counts.
This baby is awesome. I get to look at tons of displays for work and this one still takes the cake- it's made by Barco, is incredibly bright, has a built in calibration puck, comes with some decent software (ie, easily 'configured' for our purposes), and all around blows the socks off of everything on the market.
Don't mind the $16K price tag.
The diffuser used is so clean you could eat off it- none of that nasty subsurface artifacting that looks like dust on your screen (speckle). Just pure, rich, saturated colors that are accurately represented with no TFT structure to worry about.
Now, IBM had the T221 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_T220/T221_LCD_monitors) which had a native resolution of 3840x2200- at 200ppi- so that your eyes could never make out the substructure of the pixels. Best of all the monitor had hardware interpolation- it could be used at 1/2x to basically present the user a clean screen with nothing to distract your eyes from. IBM did this back in 2000!
Exactly.
How you stitch together a book doesn't matter if it's for your own personal use.
Now, if you want to go commercial you've got quite a few things to figure out.
Regardless, what you're wanting to do is basically orthorectification. There is an open source package out there that does that. Figuring out how to do so would be left to you, but I'd recommend using some sort of yellow projection grid (or red from a red laser) to map the distortion and correct it by treating it as a DEM.
Poor man method- so long as you only want bw scans :)
When I was much much younger I was purchasing a violin. While at this shop the owner had a 'cheap' Stradivarius. After I had selected the instrument I wanted (this had been going on for weeks of trying them) the owner let me hold, and play, his 'cheap' Stradivarius.
The sound that effused out of that instrument can not be put into words to hear and feel... it made the one I selected sound as if it were a cheap knockoff made of plastic. The tones could not even be compared in the same room- one was transmitted through steel cups and a string, the other was singing in front of you.
To this day that is one of the more emotional feelings of music I have ever felt.
To have that sacred sound reproduced for everyone to have access to- I don't know. It is such a beautiful instrument that, currently, only the elite can have and play (most instruments are endowed to players- on 'loan'). Should everyone have access... would it be the same?
The Ultra 27 was released with 2 PCIe x16 slots .... and it wasn't until we'd bought the damn things that we found out you can't put two FX-5600s in there- the case was designed to prevent it.
What's that got to do with their SPARC roadmap? Next x86 box we buy will be intel reference design. It's cheaper.
(not to mention there are bugs with the XVR-300 and the FX series of cards where you can't turn on 3 heads- it's 2 or 4 only)
Twice in my life have I been in a situation that would have resulted in a fatality while driving. Both times (and to this day) I get the shakes while thinking about it.
The first time a woman made a left turn while I was entering the intersection. She was oblivious- never even looked. I saw her little girl in the front seat staring at me, wide eyed with fear as my grand prix got closer and closer. I locked up the brakes, yanked the wheel hard left, skidded into oncoming traffic, went between two cars (THANK GOD they were paying attention) and ended up facing the wrong way- but everyone was alive- and the **((#(# woman never even slowed down. Funny thing- cops told me later that had I hit anyone it would have been 100% my fault.
Second time a little girl ran across the street in a crosswalk while her wheelchair bound (larger than life) mother followed her. She didn't stop running. Cars on either side... don't know how that one got dodged. I personally wish the US was more like the UK in this regards, then I'd be OK stopping and not having to worry about being rear-ended.
Either way- had I been inattentive due to an electronic device there would have been a death- no doubt in my mind. And I would have deserved every inch of that penalty meted out.
But having done everything possible to avoid an accident (say in the first case) and been unable to- no, I don't think I would deserve prison time.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fairport_High_School (fairport five).
- wait, are you talking about Microsoft or Apple?
I put all my valuables in my suitcase. TSA agents need DVDs, laptop power cords, etc- too.
I've had 4 DVD wallets stolen- so I'm really not joking here.
Oh no doubt at all- I was more throwing my support around continued testing and trials. There aint no easy cure- and anything easy and free is probably not worth it. I've got to believe nature would have already evolved a solution if it was 'easy'...
My body also walled off all the tumors and tissue that had been affected- so I may have already been primed to attack the cells.
Who knows.
I underwent the experimental treatment in 1994 at the age of 17- I had Melanoma that had metastasized to my lymph nodes. Each doctor I spoke with basically said I'd be dead.
You'll note the year- 1994- and it is now 2009. I'm celebrating my 15 year anniversary of having my 'face lift' and 7 hours of surgery to remove all of the cancer, salivary gland, neck muscles, and lymph nodes from the right half of my head. My wrestling career is over (it never got off the ground, hahaha!) but I'm alive.
Not only that, I've lived long enough to get married and have a daughter.
Was the treatment effective? Hard to say. I certainly reacted during the treatment- a couple of irradiated cancer cells and some crab blood had a MASSIVE reaction on my body- I could barely move the day after each injection. I was told that the treatment wasn't promising and that no further trials were done.
So, having been through it- I'll tell you that I believe it worked in my case. I also gained super human resistance to colds and flus afterwards for about 5 years.... unfortunately since my wife and I have had our little 'germ factory' I know now that I'm paying for that immunity with every cold I've gotten since.
(I did have one side effect- tooth pain. Excruciating, body numbing, on the floor curled up in fetal position tooth pain. Just give me the pliers already)