Given that the cost to appeal this is $35, one can clearly show financial harm. If you have _not_ downloaded the file in question, cannot you take the accuser to court for a clear case of defamation?
I disagree completely. Weapons like tazers and pepper spray should be used to subdue threatening individuals where, if you did not have tazers or pepper spray, you WOULD resort to potentially lethal force.
Would these cops have pulled a gun on her, and shot her if she didn't comply? Yes? Fine, then I'm okay with the tazer being used. No? Don't take the fucking electric gun out of your pocket then.
The truth is, these tools are not classified as "non-lethal" weapons. They are "less-lethal" weapons. Every time one of them is used, there is the potential that the victim will DIE. If the person is not doing something worth KILLING them about, DO NOT USE A TAZER.
If you look at some rhetorical theory (ie, theory of rhetoric), you'll find that there are three main kinds of arguments, which are effective against three different categories of people.
Amongst your supporters, logical arguments have the most significant impact.
Amongst the undecided, emotional arguments are more likely to sway their decision.
Amongst your opponents, moral arguments are just about the only thing that can have any effect.
Ask yourself who they're trying to win votes from when they campaign, and I think you'll have the answer as to why it's all full of emotional arguments.
I live in Southern Ontario. In the summer, it is not unusual for temperatures to exceed 35C, and humidity to hover around 100%. In the winter, we regularly get snowfalls of 10cm or more, and have temperatures below -15C.
I ride to work year-round. Every day. Every single day. If it's cold and raining, I ride my bike to work. If it's hot and muggy, I ride my bike to work. If it's snowing so hard that I can't see the road from my front door, I ride my bike to work.
Weather is not an impediment to cycling.
My bike has a rack on it, from which I can hang two panniers. I have carried my laptop to and from work in these panniers. I have carried full cases of pop home from the store. I have carried all of the equipment required for a game of soccer after work, in addition to my tidy work clothes, _and_ my lunch and dinner in these panniers.
Cargo capacity is not an impediment to cycling.
Also, I'd like to point out that on my trip home, it is not unusual for me to pass three or more buses on the 6.5km trip. Not only am I easier for cars to pass than buses, I also maintain a higher average speed. If you want to kick bikes off of the road for "holding up traffic," well, there goes public transit as well.
Kind and gentle regards,
A cyclist that does not own a car, and is three years from being mortgage-free on the house he bought five years ago.
A couple of the back-country camping parks that I frequent have a rule: No canned goods allowed. This is because there are jerks that don't pack out their cans when they're done eating out of them, presumably because they're big and bulky.
I can certainly imagine an MRE being a handy meal to pack for a long back-country trip with no refrigeration. We tend to stick to dehydrated items and boil-in-a-bag things, but oftentimes, I'm hungry enough at the end of the day that I wouldn't turn my nose up at anything edible.
If you're trying to model something that is governed by calculus, then knowing the calc will help you model it. And it doesn't take much for something to need an integral, or differentiation.
The question you're really asking here is "Is it worth all of the hard work to learn higher-level math, or will I be content to just be a low-level code monkey?"
I know of at least one company that opts to hire mathematicians and teach them programming, rather than hire programmers and try to teach them math.
Why don't people just tell their browser to remember their login/pwd information? That's what I do for Slashdot, BoingBoing, fb, lj, gmail, etc.
Bank websites and credit card websites, I still store the passwords in my noggin, but social media? I don't care if someone who's stolen my laptop suddenly can make twitter posts in my name.
It's a bit more energy than that, but it's not a remarkable amount of energy. 1.85MJ is enough to turn just under 1L of water from 100C liquid phase to 100C vapour phase. ie - it's enough to boil 1L of water, if the water is already at the boiling point.
Latent heat of vapourization for H2O is about 2200 kJ/kg.
Confirmation - you still can buy low-dose codeine over the counter. 4mg codeine, 8mg caffeine, 500mg tylenol, in one pill. You can also get asprin-based ones.
Okay, let's just clear something up about Canadian hate propoganda laws. What, exactly, is forbidden?
1. Advocating or promoting genocide. 2. Inciting hatred where such incitement is likely to lead to a breach of the peace.
That's all. I can stand around all day shouting that I hate Jews, or Mexicans, or people with purple hair. As long as I'm not telling other people that we should kill them all, or beat them up, or burn their houses and rape their wives, I am not committing an offense under the Criminal Code.
Are you seriously going to argue that this is an unjust law?
BTW - reference, if you care to check it - the Criminal Code of Canada. Look at sections 318 and 319 for the hate propoganda laws.
Okay, see, where it crosses the line is advocating violence against other people. That's what makes it hate speech. And since, theoretically, we're talking about "fighting words," it's not necessarily protected by the First Amendment.
"If a man also lie with mankind, as he lieth with a woman, both of them have committed an abomination: they shall surely be put to death; their blood shall be upon them.[4](Leviticus 20:13 KJV)"
Of course, it's a moot point, since YouTube is a private entity, and the First Amendment starts with the phrase "Congress shall make no law . .."
If you walked into a store owned by someone of African descent, and started throwing the N-bomb around, they are entirely within their rights to refuse you service, and to have you ejected from the store, by the police if necessary. The First Amendment places no restrictions on anyone other than Congress.
Actually, the TSA is also working on a micropayment system, where you can purchase one of hundreds of different avatar designs to display on their scanners, for a very reasonable fee.
Disagree. For the scientific process to function as desired, results must be independently reproduceable. That is, and ever shall remain, the _only_ requirement. That's what peer-reviewed journals are for.
Should someone state that oxidation of hydrocarbons is an exothermic process, it does not require another person stating that it's an endothermic process to make it science. It requires the first person to document his experiment that demonstrates it, and that experiment needs to have the same result when someone else performs it.
On the other hand, if someone wants to question basic arithmetic, Science should stand up to it.
Want to question whether or not 1 + 1 = 2?
Look at the Peano Postulates that define natural numbers, look at the definitions for 2 and addition, and you can independently reproduce the proof that 1+1=2.
We've now reached the point that arithmetic is understood and accepted as true by enough people that we don't need to bother reproducing it independently. But importantly, it _can_ be.
I'll keep an eye on it if the Sketchup UI ever causes me to have an anger-aneurism. One of the benefits of Google, though, is the huge library of objects that you can import. Don't worry about creating your own bookcases, chairs, or coatracks. Somebody's already done that, and uploaded the models for your enjoyment.
Don't you see? All the terrorists have to do is blow up _all of Afghanistan_, and the USA will be defeated, because their president will be dead.
I mean, Afghanistan's just some little country on the other side of the world, with no real security or anything. It wouldn't take more than two or three suicide bombers covered in TNT to level the whole thing, right?
I volunteer at a local community theatre, fulfilling a wide range of different roles from time to time. Recently, I worked as a Technical Director for a production, which included the necessity of doing the set design.
Previously, another enterprising TD had created a Sketchup model of the interior of our back-box theatre space, and used that to do set designs. Let me tell you, apart from some annoying UI issues (trying to convert 2-D input into 3-D input), Sketchup is absolutely fantastic for designing and visualizing different sets and audience creation. I highly recommend it to anyone out there for creating 3-D models of their sets, once the 2-D sketches are completed.
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Maybe the members of the committee that proposed this can all just stick their fingers in the holes in the dike. That'll stop the problem, right?
Embarrassingly, that actually sounds like a porno flick.
Given that the cost to appeal this is $35, one can clearly show financial harm. If you have _not_ downloaded the file in question, cannot you take the accuser to court for a clear case of defamation?
RTFA - median internet usage numbers in the US are 5.8GB/mo. This plan is cheaper for those users than _any_ other plan out there right now.
If they can steal 50% of all internet customers from other service providers, to the benefit of those customers, it will be disruptive.
I disagree completely. Weapons like tazers and pepper spray should be used to subdue threatening individuals where, if you did not have tazers or pepper spray, you WOULD resort to potentially lethal force.
Would these cops have pulled a gun on her, and shot her if she didn't comply? Yes? Fine, then I'm okay with the tazer being used. No? Don't take the fucking electric gun out of your pocket then.
The truth is, these tools are not classified as "non-lethal" weapons. They are "less-lethal" weapons. Every time one of them is used, there is the potential that the victim will DIE. If the person is not doing something worth KILLING them about, DO NOT USE A TAZER.
If you look at some rhetorical theory (ie, theory of rhetoric), you'll find that there are three main kinds of arguments, which are effective against three different categories of people.
Amongst your supporters, logical arguments have the most significant impact.
Amongst the undecided, emotional arguments are more likely to sway their decision.
Amongst your opponents, moral arguments are just about the only thing that can have any effect.
Ask yourself who they're trying to win votes from when they campaign, and I think you'll have the answer as to why it's all full of emotional arguments.
Not to mention the fact that once the next spring rolled around, every single person you moved up there would be exsanguinated.
http://www.nfb.ca/film/blackfly/
Dear cynic,
I live in Southern Ontario. In the summer, it is not unusual for temperatures to exceed 35C, and humidity to hover around 100%. In the winter, we regularly get snowfalls of 10cm or more, and have temperatures below -15C.
I ride to work year-round. Every day. Every single day. If it's cold and raining, I ride my bike to work. If it's hot and muggy, I ride my bike to work. If it's snowing so hard that I can't see the road from my front door, I ride my bike to work.
Weather is not an impediment to cycling.
My bike has a rack on it, from which I can hang two panniers. I have carried my laptop to and from work in these panniers. I have carried full cases of pop home from the store. I have carried all of the equipment required for a game of soccer after work, in addition to my tidy work clothes, _and_ my lunch and dinner in these panniers.
Cargo capacity is not an impediment to cycling.
Also, I'd like to point out that on my trip home, it is not unusual for me to pass three or more buses on the 6.5km trip. Not only am I easier for cars to pass than buses, I also maintain a higher average speed. If you want to kick bikes off of the road for "holding up traffic," well, there goes public transit as well.
Kind and gentle regards,
A cyclist that does not own a car, and is three years from being mortgage-free on the house he bought five years ago.
A couple of the back-country camping parks that I frequent have a rule: No canned goods allowed. This is because there are jerks that don't pack out their cans when they're done eating out of them, presumably because they're big and bulky.
I can certainly imagine an MRE being a handy meal to pack for a long back-country trip with no refrigeration. We tend to stick to dehydrated items and boil-in-a-bag things, but oftentimes, I'm hungry enough at the end of the day that I wouldn't turn my nose up at anything edible.
If you're trying to model something that is governed by calculus, then knowing the calc will help you model it. And it doesn't take much for something to need an integral, or differentiation.
The question you're really asking here is "Is it worth all of the hard work to learn higher-level math, or will I be content to just be a low-level code monkey?"
I know of at least one company that opts to hire mathematicians and teach them programming, rather than hire programmers and try to teach them math.
Why don't people just tell their browser to remember their login/pwd information? That's what I do for Slashdot, BoingBoing, fb, lj, gmail, etc.
Bank websites and credit card websites, I still store the passwords in my noggin, but social media? I don't care if someone who's stolen my laptop suddenly can make twitter posts in my name.
It's a bit more energy than that, but it's not a remarkable amount of energy. 1.85MJ is enough to turn just under 1L of water from 100C liquid phase to 100C vapour phase. ie - it's enough to boil 1L of water, if the water is already at the boiling point.
Latent heat of vapourization for H2O is about 2200 kJ/kg.
Does grammar matter any more?
*snerk*
Confirmation - you still can buy low-dose codeine over the counter. 4mg codeine, 8mg caffeine, 500mg tylenol, in one pill. You can also get asprin-based ones.
I buy them in 100-count bottles. For back pain.
Ah, thank you. Interesting reading.
Okay, let's just clear something up about Canadian hate propoganda laws. What, exactly, is forbidden?
1. Advocating or promoting genocide.
2. Inciting hatred where such incitement is likely to lead to a breach of the peace.
That's all. I can stand around all day shouting that I hate Jews, or Mexicans, or people with purple hair. As long as I'm not telling other people that we should kill them all, or beat them up, or burn their houses and rape their wives, I am not committing an offense under the Criminal Code.
Are you seriously going to argue that this is an unjust law?
BTW - reference, if you care to check it - the Criminal Code of Canada. Look at sections 318 and 319 for the hate propoganda laws.
http://laws-lois.justice.gc.ca/eng/acts/C-46/
Okay, see, where it crosses the line is advocating violence against other people. That's what makes it hate speech. And since, theoretically, we're talking about "fighting words," it's not necessarily protected by the First Amendment.
"If a man also lie with mankind, as he lieth with a woman, both of them have committed an abomination: they shall surely be put to death; their blood shall be upon them.[4](Leviticus 20:13 KJV)"
Of course, it's a moot point, since YouTube is a private entity, and the First Amendment starts with the phrase "Congress shall make no law . . ."
If you walked into a store owned by someone of African descent, and started throwing the N-bomb around, they are entirely within their rights to refuse you service, and to have you ejected from the store, by the police if necessary. The First Amendment places no restrictions on anyone other than Congress.
Because weight is a critical factor, that's why.
That's easy. Cut off all that heavy insulation, and even the higher-diameter metric cables will come in under your weight budget.
Actually, the TSA is also working on a micropayment system, where you can purchase one of hundreds of different avatar designs to display on their scanners, for a very reasonable fee.
Cogito ergo sum.
1/3 of a metre: 33 1/3cm, or 333 1/3mm. Choose as many significant digits as you like.
2/3 of a litre: 666 2/3 mL.
How much is one fifth of a yard? One tenth of a foot? One eleventh of a hogshead? half a slug?
Disagree. For the scientific process to function as desired, results must be independently reproduceable. That is, and ever shall remain, the _only_ requirement. That's what peer-reviewed journals are for.
Should someone state that oxidation of hydrocarbons is an exothermic process, it does not require another person stating that it's an endothermic process to make it science. It requires the first person to document his experiment that demonstrates it, and that experiment needs to have the same result when someone else performs it.
On the other hand, if someone wants to question basic arithmetic, Science should stand up to it.
Want to question whether or not 1 + 1 = 2?
Look at the Peano Postulates that define natural numbers, look at the definitions for 2 and addition, and you can independently reproduce the proof that 1+1=2.
http://mathforum.org/library/drmath/view/51551.html
We've now reached the point that arithmetic is understood and accepted as true by enough people that we don't need to bother reproducing it independently. But importantly, it _can_ be.
I'll keep an eye on it if the Sketchup UI ever causes me to have an anger-aneurism. One of the benefits of Google, though, is the huge library of objects that you can import. Don't worry about creating your own bookcases, chairs, or coatracks. Somebody's already done that, and uploaded the models for your enjoyment.
Don't you see? All the terrorists have to do is blow up _all of Afghanistan_, and the USA will be defeated, because their president will be dead.
I mean, Afghanistan's just some little country on the other side of the world, with no real security or anything. It wouldn't take more than two or three suicide bombers covered in TNT to level the whole thing, right?
I volunteer at a local community theatre, fulfilling a wide range of different roles from time to time. Recently, I worked as a Technical Director for a production, which included the necessity of doing the set design.
Previously, another enterprising TD had created a Sketchup model of the interior of our back-box theatre space, and used that to do set designs. Let me tell you, apart from some annoying UI issues (trying to convert 2-D input into 3-D input), Sketchup is absolutely fantastic for designing and visualizing different sets and audience creation. I highly recommend it to anyone out there for creating 3-D models of their sets, once the 2-D sketches are completed.