I firmly believe that every Congressman/woman should have a personal punisher assigned to them. It would be their job to follow them around all day and sock them in the face every time they do something stupid. Additionally, they would stand over their bed in the morning, and the moment they open their eyes, POW socked in the face for that one thing that the punisher just might miss during the day.
Eventually we'd end up with a current batch of congressmen that are so swolen that they litterally cannot speak to bring about shitty changes to our country. And the next batch would be so scared to speak most of the time that everything would be well thought out.
About the only type of wrecks that are actually an accident is a wreck caused by loss of control due to tire failure from debris in the road, sudden onset of symptoms from a new (to you) medical condition, loss of control due to flying debris hitting your car, or a manufacturing defect leading to catastrophic unpredictable failure of critical systems, maybe a meteor falling from the sky.
While I mostly agree with you, you have to draw the line somewhere when it comes to giving people the benefit of the doubt. I think you draw it a little too far to the side of 'People are all idiot assholes' side than the 'Shit happens' side. Certainly people engage in risky behavior while driving that sometimes leads to an 'Oh shit' moment and an 'intentional' as you call them. But the things you list as legitimate accidents could have just as easily been avoided by staying home, taking a different route to your destination, or simply choosing a different destination. Does that make them 'intentionals', since they technically could have avoided them by making different decisions? Not really. The other side of that coin is that just because someone makes a bad or risky decision doesn't necessarily mean it lead to the crash/collision.
Point being, just because you could have done something to prevent the crash, doesn't necessarily mean you purposely caused the crash.
HAHAHA, shit, more like reading fail, nice catch. I totally missed that the site said thousands and not millions.
Alright, well, in light of that, I have no clue what would make a good tipping point for religion. Religion is nothing more than ideas, so 10% of the world population seems wildly overestimated as required for acceptance and spread. Maybe it more comes down to 10% among the group of people that are actually informed on the topic. I write software for a living, I'm certainly no anthropologist.:-)
It's actually the price you pay for a more powerful platform. The better the platform, the more software you need to load into RAM before you can actually get to playing. It's also one of the downsides of it not being something you leave 'on' all the time. If you literally powered off your phone when you were done with it, it would take nearly the same amount of time to start playing a game on it as a DS or PS3. But one console got it right. My PSP has that nifty little feature called 'Standby'. As long as I don't want to play a different game, I can just put my PSP into standby and pick back up right where I left off any time I want. The battery will even last for over a week in standby without being charged.
So I don't view it as phones having an 'advantage' but more as phones being niche (gaming) devices with the benefit of hardly ever being powered down. It's a side effect of their primary function, not so much an intentionally designed advantage.
Probably the same way they do it with pacemakers. See, they use a shrink ray on a police officer and inject him into your heart. Then he sits there with his radar gun and clocks the speed of the blood cells racing by. If they start going too fast or too slow, he takes out his taser and shocks your heart a little to get it back into a normal rythm.
Seriously, I thought this was common knowledge by now.
If this ever came to fruition, it would wreck hell on the roads until we re-organized the tax system to collect infrastructure taxes off of something other than gasoline.
If personal experience is any indication, they aren't spending the taxes they collect now on maintaining the infrastructure. And when they do they're clearly overpaying for it. There's been an overpass close to where I live that has been under repair for three fucking years now. Bullshit it takes that long. Hell it took them six weeks this summer just to grind and repave about 500 feet of a neighboring onramp. So everyone on my side of the highway that wanted to head south had an extra ten minutes added to their commute for six weeks because the idiots they hired couldn't get their heads out of their asses.
No, something tells me they would still be collecting plenty of taxes, they just need to learn to not piss it all away.
If you think about it for a minute, disabling version checking is a requirement, as it would be impossible for you to check if an add-on still works with the new version of Firefox if the add-on was disabled because of version checking.
If you think about it slightly longer you realize that it's not a requirement at all. You can edit the add-on to have a higher compatible version number and install it to see if it still works. Last time I checked all you need is an archive tool and a text editor.
And if that perp throws the gun at the police after exhausting its ammunition, the police are no longer allowed to 'shoot to kill' simply on the grounds that they 'think' he may have another gun. A demonstrably disarmed perp cannot be shot and kill based merely on speculation. If he makes any attempt to reach for anything the police may then assume the perp is going for another weapon and shoot, but they are not allowed to and are trained not to jump to conclusions.
That said, I don't know the full story here, and whether or not the perp here made any attempt to 're-arm' himself after throwing the knife at security. If he had attempted to re-arm, then they were certainly allowed to respond with deadly force. However I hear that he was being pinned to the ground when he died, which makes it sound very suspicious. If a perp is incapacitated/restrained, then they can no longer be considered a threat and may only continue to be restrained, not killed to 'neutralize' the situation.
Again, I don't know the full story, but the rules are much more complex than 'Throw knife at authorities, get filled with lead on the grounds you "might" have another one.'
Depends. You have air conditioning? If so you might actually save some money on cooling by reducing the heat output from your computer just a little bit more (not that a sleeping computer generates much, but it could be worth crunching the numbers.) However, since you make a point of mentioning your components may well melt if you let it run for very long seems to indicate you don't have air conditioning.
Regardless though, I would suggest at least trying hibernation. If the extra boot time (which should be marginal unless you have a really old and crappy HDD) is tolerable to you, then you're money to the good on the extra electricity saved. You can always go back if you're not satisfied with the results.
Besides, desktops really benefit from regular reboots - helps clear out the memory leaks and all.
Agreed, but the frequency of said regularity is highly subjective. Unless you're running a lot of very poorly written software on a very old OS, rebooting once a day is completely unwarranted. Reboot when the computer starts feeling sluggish, not when you arbitrarily feel like it would be a good idea to do so.
Not long. Unless Intel plans on downloading additional arbitrary code to perform the unlock once the PIN is verified, crackers already have all the code necessary to perform the unlock. Even then, it only takes one cracker upgrading legit to get their hands on the unlocking code. Try as they might to obfuscate the code, it will be found and released. And given the popularity of a crack such as this, you can very well guarantee it won't take long to see.
Firstly... "Once one buys it, they have precisely no rights to dictate how the product is used"
So if you buy a hunting rifle, it's perfectly ok for you to go and kill citizens on the streets? Or buy a car and drink a bottle of whiskey and go out for a drive? The "I own it I can do what I want with it" attitude is bullshit.
Your analogy is poorly thought out. The company that sold me the gun has no fucking right to tell me not to shoot people with it. The company that sold me the car has no fucking right to tell me not to operate it drunk. The government, on the other hand, that group that makes the laws you and I follow? They get every right to tell me what to not do with that shiny new Glock I bought to match my new Charcoal Black Hummer. Glock and Hummer can't say shit about me driving around wasted performing drive-bys on every pedestrian I see. The government is allowed to pull me over and arrest me with all due force. Glock and Hummer can piss up a rope.
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I firmly believe that every Congressman/woman should have a personal punisher assigned to them. It would be their job to follow them around all day and sock them in the face every time they do something stupid. Additionally, they would stand over their bed in the morning, and the moment they open their eyes, POW socked in the face for that one thing that the punisher just might miss during the day.
Eventually we'd end up with a current batch of congressmen that are so swolen that they litterally cannot speak to bring about shitty changes to our country. And the next batch would be so scared to speak most of the time that everything would be well thought out.
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You're not a robot.
That's a logical fallacy. This is the internet. The only safe assumption you can make is that the GP is not female.
About the only type of wrecks that are actually an accident is a wreck caused by loss of control due to tire failure from debris in the road, sudden onset of symptoms from a new (to you) medical condition, loss of control due to flying debris hitting your car, or a manufacturing defect leading to catastrophic unpredictable failure of critical systems, maybe a meteor falling from the sky.
While I mostly agree with you, you have to draw the line somewhere when it comes to giving people the benefit of the doubt. I think you draw it a little too far to the side of 'People are all idiot assholes' side than the 'Shit happens' side. Certainly people engage in risky behavior while driving that sometimes leads to an 'Oh shit' moment and an 'intentional' as you call them. But the things you list as legitimate accidents could have just as easily been avoided by staying home, taking a different route to your destination, or simply choosing a different destination. Does that make them 'intentionals', since they technically could have avoided them by making different decisions? Not really. The other side of that coin is that just because someone makes a bad or risky decision doesn't necessarily mean it lead to the crash/collision.
Point being, just because you could have done something to prevent the crash, doesn't necessarily mean you purposely caused the crash.
HAHAHA, shit, more like reading fail, nice catch. I totally missed that the site said thousands and not millions.
:-)
Alright, well, in light of that, I have no clue what would make a good tipping point for religion. Religion is nothing more than ideas, so 10% of the world population seems wildly overestimated as required for acceptance and spread. Maybe it more comes down to 10% among the group of people that are actually informed on the topic. I write software for a living, I'm certainly no anthropologist.
It's actually the price you pay for a more powerful platform. The better the platform, the more software you need to load into RAM before you can actually get to playing. It's also one of the downsides of it not being something you leave 'on' all the time. If you literally powered off your phone when you were done with it, it would take nearly the same amount of time to start playing a game on it as a DS or PS3. But one console got it right. My PSP has that nifty little feature called 'Standby'. As long as I don't want to play a different game, I can just put my PSP into standby and pick back up right where I left off any time I want. The battery will even last for over a week in standby without being charged.
So I don't view it as phones having an 'advantage' but more as phones being niche (gaming) devices with the benefit of hardly ever being powered down. It's a side effect of their primary function, not so much an intentionally designed advantage.
I'm familiar with LARP, but not Lart. Is that:
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Not to mention, the plumber found his mushroom, but it just didn't quite have the effect he was used to.
Ironic. My shit is always full of kernels.
I'll take Antarctica. Sure it's cold, but those penguins are a lot smarter than 95% of the fucking idiots I deal with on a daily basis.
[...]merely that anything containing carbon can be used as raw material.
Graphene is people!
Capitalism is still bounded by reality, even though a lot of people wish it wasn't so.
This lawyer who says he represents the MIAA and RIAA just handed me a slip of paper he said they would like posted for them. It reads:
Shutupshutupshutup! Nyahhhh! Nyahhhh! We're not listening!!
And how did they monitor heart-rate?
Probably the same way they do it with pacemakers. See, they use a shrink ray on a police officer and inject him into your heart. Then he sits there with his radar gun and clocks the speed of the blood cells racing by. If they start going too fast or too slow, he takes out his taser and shocks your heart a little to get it back into a normal rythm.
Seriously, I thought this was common knowledge by now.
[...]you're going unleash a whole mess of gamma radiation.
Gives a whole new meaning to 'Road Rage'
If this ever came to fruition, it would wreck hell on the roads until we re-organized the tax system to collect infrastructure taxes off of something other than gasoline.
If personal experience is any indication, they aren't spending the taxes they collect now on maintaining the infrastructure. And when they do they're clearly overpaying for it. There's been an overpass close to where I live that has been under repair for three fucking years now. Bullshit it takes that long. Hell it took them six weeks this summer just to grind and repave about 500 feet of a neighboring onramp. So everyone on my side of the highway that wanted to head south had an extra ten minutes added to their commute for six weeks because the idiots they hired couldn't get their heads out of their asses.
No, something tells me they would still be collecting plenty of taxes, they just need to learn to not piss it all away.
If you think about it for a minute, disabling version checking is a requirement, as it would be impossible for you to check if an add-on still works with the new version of Firefox if the add-on was disabled because of version checking.
If you think about it slightly longer you realize that it's not a requirement at all. You can edit the add-on to have a higher compatible version number and install it to see if it still works. Last time I checked all you need is an archive tool and a text editor.
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I expect FF V350.0 to be out sometime next year, and it will be the software equivalent of combing your fur a different way..
FTFY
How's that old saying go? Something about flies, honey, and vinegar?
Increase share prices by making your customers happy. Not by fucking them up the ass.
Blocking 25 is a dick move, but doesn't blocking port 80 defeat the purpose of an internet connection? You know... Accessing the internet...
And if that perp throws the gun at the police after exhausting its ammunition, the police are no longer allowed to 'shoot to kill' simply on the grounds that they 'think' he may have another gun. A demonstrably disarmed perp cannot be shot and kill based merely on speculation. If he makes any attempt to reach for anything the police may then assume the perp is going for another weapon and shoot, but they are not allowed to and are trained not to jump to conclusions.
That said, I don't know the full story here, and whether or not the perp here made any attempt to 're-arm' himself after throwing the knife at security. If he had attempted to re-arm, then they were certainly allowed to respond with deadly force. However I hear that he was being pinned to the ground when he died, which makes it sound very suspicious. If a perp is incapacitated/restrained, then they can no longer be considered a threat and may only continue to be restrained, not killed to 'neutralize' the situation.
Again, I don't know the full story, but the rules are much more complex than 'Throw knife at authorities, get filled with lead on the grounds you "might" have another one.'
"I didn't want to leave because it might have been raining and I couldn't check the weather" ;-)
Maybe I should try suspending to disk?
Depends. You have air conditioning? If so you might actually save some money on cooling by reducing the heat output from your computer just a little bit more (not that a sleeping computer generates much, but it could be worth crunching the numbers.) However, since you make a point of mentioning your components may well melt if you let it run for very long seems to indicate you don't have air conditioning.
Regardless though, I would suggest at least trying hibernation. If the extra boot time (which should be marginal unless you have a really old and crappy HDD) is tolerable to you, then you're money to the good on the extra electricity saved. You can always go back if you're not satisfied with the results.
Besides, desktops really benefit from regular reboots - helps clear out the memory leaks and all.
Agreed, but the frequency of said regularity is highly subjective. Unless you're running a lot of very poorly written software on a very old OS, rebooting once a day is completely unwarranted. Reboot when the computer starts feeling sluggish, not when you arbitrarily feel like it would be a good idea to do so.
Not long. Unless Intel plans on downloading additional arbitrary code to perform the unlock once the PIN is verified, crackers already have all the code necessary to perform the unlock. Even then, it only takes one cracker upgrading legit to get their hands on the unlocking code. Try as they might to obfuscate the code, it will be found and released. And given the popularity of a crack such as this, you can very well guarantee it won't take long to see.
What utter rubbish. Just think for 2 minutes.
Firstly... "Once one buys it, they have precisely no rights to dictate how the product is used" So if you buy a hunting rifle, it's perfectly ok for you to go and kill citizens on the streets? Or buy a car and drink a bottle of whiskey and go out for a drive? The "I own it I can do what I want with it" attitude is bullshit.
Your analogy is poorly thought out. The company that sold me the gun has no fucking right to tell me not to shoot people with it. The company that sold me the car has no fucking right to tell me not to operate it drunk. The government, on the other hand, that group that makes the laws you and I follow? They get every right to tell me what to not do with that shiny new Glock I bought to match my new Charcoal Black Hummer. Glock and Hummer can't say shit about me driving around wasted performing drive-bys on every pedestrian I see. The government is allowed to pull me over and arrest me with all due force. Glock and Hummer can piss up a rope.
Understand?