What if someone with a concealed weapon is shot and killed by the shooter before he can hit the shooter? Even someone trained with a weapon can be killed by someone else (who may or may not have been trained) with a weapon. What happens to this someone's gun? Is it possible a bystander would try to pick it up and start firing wildly? Is it possible for the shooter to pick it up as an additional firearm and ammunition?
More guns means more opportunities to shoot guns. It's hard to say that this is a good thing.
Agreed. No guarantees. However, at least they would have had a chance, one that improved in direct proportion to the number of armed and trained people in the group. Armed and trained does not equal able to hit a target. Remember Pat Tillman? Friendly fire happens.
As it was, however, they had none, because the rules required them to be defenseless. Now they're dead, and we're not talking about "chance", are we? No. because we're certain they're dead, and we're certain they had no way to defend themselves. You're assuming that the only defense against a shooter is being armed with a gun. But you can still get shot when you have a gun. And you might hit someone else when you have a gun. It seems from what you say that you believe that such shooters need to be stopped using force. I don't disagree. Force should be applied, but arming the people with concealed weapons is unlikely the best solution.
1. The idea is that the website would have information/links/arguments etc above the little vote button - so it would be very easy to get educated on the issue before voting. Kind of like how you can read a slashdot thread and then become an expert on an issue.:-) This perhaps is the most dangerous of all. Who gets to write what goes above the little vote button? Whoever does has immense power over the voters. By providing a potentially biased view while also trivializing the voting process, we would open up the possibility of thousands or millions of votes being swayed by the writer/compiler of the "facts." Lobbyists can lobby the writer/compiler. If instead of a single writer/compiler we have a committee, who gets to pick the committee members? What keeps lobbyists from lobbying the committee after it's been selected? If we make the information for the vote an open forum, what keeps lobbyists from flooding the forum with their interests? Would a forum even be feasible with millions of daily readers?
What you suggest may work, but I think, as you say, that a lot more thought is needed.
There's no way any vehicle that flies can ever come close to that kind of fuel efficiency. So who would want cargo delivery that's just as slow, but much more expensive? How about people who need to deliver cargo over terrain lacking waterways and railroads?
The nice thing about flight is that it doesn't require as much infrastructure. As long as there's a place to take-off and land (which, granted, may not be there), flight is a viable, and sometimes cost-effective, method.
I do wonder if it caries any weight. There is some thing about contracts signed under duress.. Anybody have any information on this? From what I have seen and the size of the pendiing litigation, this is a contract that fully qualifies as signed under duress. IANAL, but from what I've seen, "duress" cannot be so easily claimed. A law professor told me once that unless someone's holding a gun to your head, a court's unlikely to consider you under duress.
Of course, having one's livelihood threatened may feel like duress....
Ah, well in "Link to the Past" (SNES), Link does sometimes use his sword with his right hand (when facing east). So I guess canon is that he's ambidexterous? So for a truly correct interpretation, you'd need players to be switching with their compass bearings....
Of course, I haven't played in a long time, so maybe I'm remembering incorrectly. Anyone better versed in the topic have anything to comment?
"X times less" is pretty much never used appropriately. I can accept arguments about the meanings of words changing because people use the wrong definition more than the right one. When you're talking about mathematical concepts, though, there's no excuse. You just can't make mathematical untruth true, no matter how large a percentage of the population's minds are too addled to know the difference.
Perhaps, but the representation of a mathematical truth can change when people start incorrectly using those currently in place.
So if people start using "X times less" differently, it doesn't change the mathematics, just the translation of the English representation of it to the mathematics.
Agreed. The perfect story lengths actually lend Slashdot a bit of professionalism. Of course, the spelling and grammar problems undermine this professionalism: misspellings and unparsable grammar draw attention to themselve and away from the article. I can live with them though.
Ray: Man, these Gilmore Girls talk too goddamned much! Cornelius: If you don't like it, you can go do something else. Ray: Seriously, man! Who writes this shit? Nerdy bitches on speed?
Yup, rapists are sex offenders. But so are people caught urinating in public. To be tagged a sex offender and tracked by GPS for life for forgetting to pee before heading out seems pretty harsh to me.
Even with paid subscriptions, "BitTorrent Inc." will still be vulnerable to MPAA, et al: if illegal goods are being distribued, contracts dealing with them (membership contracts for example) are void and unenforceable under US law. Thus in this example, "attempts to circumvent our access control mechanism" may not be punishable by law.
Of course, dubious contracts may buy precious time to hide away when the lawyers come a knockin'....
On the other hand, opening the case may void some warranties. If my computer is fairly new, I sure as heck won't crack it open just to watch TV on it if it means I'll void the manufacturer's warranty. In these cases, a USB tuner would be ideal.
Ideal, that is, if it works under Linux. And has open drivers. =)
Although the frame rates may be low (I don't know, never tried), I can't imagine a necessity for high frame rates when it comes to digital recording for security. Certainly 5 FPS should be enough to get a good shot at a criminal in the act.
But if you don't want to take any chances, I suppose the higher the FPS, the better.
Being able to read Traditional means one can read Simplified, albeit with some difficulty.
When I took Chinese in school, we were expected to learn both; I found it acceptable to just learn the Traditional and wing the Simplified (I would write in Traditional, but read in both).
Nevertheless, most Chinese is Simplified just because PRC endorses Simplified. And I'm not too sure how many Chinese actually read/write English well at all....
Well, it's experimenting with a form that hasn't really been used in novels, so it can be classified as a new literary category, that is if it's not just a POS (forgive me, I haven't yet read the book).
As for the choose-your-own-adventure books? They're not novels, at least not very good ones. Characterization is minimal. There's an overemphasis on plot. Pretty much like most video games =).
Perhaps your parent poster meant "practically lossless" or "lossless for all intents and purposes." I agree that the technical definitions for lossless/lossy force codecs to be either lossless or lossy. Nevertheless, to one's ears (as you've mentioned), the loss may be completely insignificant; in these cases, to say that the codec is "practically" lossless--or lossless in practical (listening) use--wouldn't be incorrect.
I know, it's just a matter of semantics, but you've made 2 posts about it already, so I felt obligated to jump in. =)
"The FDA said last month it will not regulate the fish because it is not intended for human consumption. A spokeswoman said Wednesday the FDA stands by that statement." - from the ABCNEWS.com article.
It seems the FDA doesn't think anyone's going to eat glowing fish either.
Well, I think they're flogging a bit more than just that: they're envisioning more widespread use of distributed computing. Distributed computing, according to these market leaders, will enable companies to come up with a working, marketable, and profitable way to sell computing power to other companies through "utility"-like means (think "metered", like electricity).
As for what that means for us *normal* people, maybe it means we can opt to make an extra penny or two running an IBM branded screensaver that runs computations for them (kind of like SETI@Home, just profitable). Or maybe it means we'll be forced to do the same for free if we use a Microsoft product =). Who knows?
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"The article cites that LimitNone claims that the 'gMove' application was a trade secret..it wasn't even patented."
Quick, anyone: Can you have a patent on a trade secret? Or a trade secret on a patent?
all the best,
drew
No and no. Information that is a trade secret must be kept secret. Information concerning patents must be made available. See Wikipedia.What if someone with a concealed weapon is shot and killed by the shooter before he can hit the shooter? Even someone trained with a weapon can be killed by someone else (who may or may not have been trained) with a weapon. What happens to this someone's gun? Is it possible a bystander would try to pick it up and start firing wildly? Is it possible for the shooter to pick it up as an additional firearm and ammunition?
More guns means more opportunities to shoot guns. It's hard to say that this is a good thing.
What you suggest may work, but I think, as you say, that a lot more thought is needed.
The nice thing about flight is that it doesn't require as much infrastructure. As long as there's a place to take-off and land (which, granted, may not be there), flight is a viable, and sometimes cost-effective, method.
Of course, having one's livelihood threatened may feel like duress....
Ah, well in "Link to the Past" (SNES), Link does sometimes use his sword with his right hand (when facing east). So I guess canon is that he's ambidexterous? So for a truly correct interpretation, you'd need players to be switching with their compass bearings....
Of course, I haven't played in a long time, so maybe I'm remembering incorrectly. Anyone better versed in the topic have anything to comment?
How about becoming an actuary?
Only one reboot? Linux is obviously not ready for the desktop!
Perhaps, but the representation of a mathematical truth can change when people start incorrectly using those currently in place.
So if people start using "X times less" differently, it doesn't change the mathematics, just the translation of the English representation of it to the mathematics.
Agreed. The perfect story lengths actually lend Slashdot a bit of professionalism. Of course, the spelling and grammar problems undermine this professionalism: misspellings and unparsable grammar draw attention to themselve and away from the article. I can live with them though.
Keep up the (fairly) good work, Taco, et al!
No, but Jimmy Olson's got a pocket full.
Ray: Man, these Gilmore Girls talk too goddamned much!
Cornelius: If you don't like it, you can go do something else.
Ray: Seriously, man! Who writes this shit? Nerdy bitches on speed?
http://www.achewood.com/index.php?date=04162003
Yup, rapists are sex offenders. But so are people caught urinating in public. To be tagged a sex offender and tracked by GPS for life for forgetting to pee before heading out seems pretty harsh to me.
Ah... how about pen and paper? Taking notes, writing letters, drawing sketches, making paper animals, etc. Can't beat the low tech =).
Even with paid subscriptions, "BitTorrent Inc." will still be vulnerable to MPAA, et al: if illegal goods are being distribued, contracts dealing with them (membership contracts for example) are void and unenforceable under US law. Thus in this example, "attempts to circumvent our access control mechanism" may not be punishable by law.
Of course, dubious contracts may buy precious time to hide away when the lawyers come a knockin'....
On the other hand, opening the case may void some warranties. If my computer is fairly new, I sure as heck won't crack it open just to watch TV on it if it means I'll void the manufacturer's warranty. In these cases, a USB tuner would be ideal.
Ideal, that is, if it works under Linux. And has open drivers. =)
I second Siddhartha by Hesse. It really makes life that much more meaningful.
(On the other hand, it also convinced me to forgo a CS degree in favor of a degree in literature =)).
"Who did Bill and Bob beat?"
"Who" is the subject if Bill and Bob were the losers. ("John did beat Bill and Bob.")
"Who" is the object if Bill and Bob were the winners. ("Bill and Bob did beat John.")
Although the frame rates may be low (I don't know, never tried), I can't imagine a necessity for high frame rates when it comes to digital recording for security. Certainly 5 FPS should be enough to get a good shot at a criminal in the act.
But if you don't want to take any chances, I suppose the higher the FPS, the better.
Being able to read Traditional means one can read Simplified, albeit with some difficulty.
When I took Chinese in school, we were expected to learn both; I found it acceptable to just learn the Traditional and wing the Simplified (I would write in Traditional, but read in both).
Nevertheless, most Chinese is Simplified just because PRC endorses Simplified. And I'm not too sure how many Chinese actually read/write English well at all....
Well, it's experimenting with a form that hasn't really been used in novels, so it can be classified as a new literary category, that is if it's not just a POS (forgive me, I haven't yet read the book).
As for the choose-your-own-adventure books? They're not novels, at least not very good ones. Characterization is minimal. There's an overemphasis on plot. Pretty much like most video games =).
Perhaps your parent poster meant "practically lossless" or "lossless for all intents and purposes." I agree that the technical definitions for lossless/lossy force codecs to be either lossless or lossy. Nevertheless, to one's ears (as you've mentioned), the loss may be completely insignificant; in these cases, to say that the codec is "practically" lossless--or lossless in practical (listening) use--wouldn't be incorrect.
I know, it's just a matter of semantics, but you've made 2 posts about it already, so I felt obligated to jump in. =)
"The FDA said last month it will not regulate the fish because it is not intended for human consumption. A spokeswoman said Wednesday the FDA stands by that statement." - from the ABCNEWS.com article.
It seems the FDA doesn't think anyone's going to eat glowing fish either.
Well, I think they're flogging a bit more than just that: they're envisioning more widespread use of distributed computing. Distributed computing, according to these market leaders, will enable companies to come up with a working, marketable, and profitable way to sell computing power to other companies through "utility"-like means (think "metered", like electricity).
As for what that means for us *normal* people, maybe it means we can opt to make an extra penny or two running an IBM branded screensaver that runs computations for them (kind of like SETI@Home, just profitable). Or maybe it means we'll be forced to do the same for free if we use a Microsoft product =). Who knows?