I didn't realise being a mobster was a crime. I thought you actually had to commit a crime while in the mob to be charged; hence nailing Capone on tax evasion.
. Is the TSA agent to blame for all of this, no... Is there the rare criminal working for the TSA, yes, just like every other industry and social group.
Do these two sentences appear to contradict each other? Yes!
Not if you read them in context without gratuitous and self serving snipping. The first is referring to TSA policy in general and to all TSA agents in general, as the GP was referring to all of the TSA rather than a single agent. With this new knowledge try reading the original text again:
"Those of us who have been patted down by the TSA know your opinion is silly. Were we annoyed, yes. Were we somewhat "insulted" since there is a presumption of guilt to some degree, yes. Would the TSA agent rather be checking your luggage rather than your body, yes. Is the TSA agent to blame for all of this, no. Would we prefer the gov't to be practical and realistic(*) rather than politically correct, yes. Is there the rare criminal working for the TSA, yes, just like every other industry and social group."
Are you suffering from Cognitive Dissonance? Maybe!
No, but you seem to be suffering from a reading comprehension disorder.:-)
I am not an expert either but I think terraformers are kind of talking out of their... too, or perhaps confusing fun science fiction with actual science. My understanding is that Mars no longer possesses a magnetic field that can shield it from solar radiation and maintain the type of atmosphere needed.
I believe part of the claim in this case is that the TSA agent gave a pat-down that was more "enhanced" (invasive) than it should have been. That could conceivably be a crime.
I agree. The post I responded to suggested this was a common sort of behavior, not an anomaly.
It may not be DEFINED by the U.S. government as a crime, but it's still a crime.
According to what jurisdiction? Please let us know when the UN or International Criminal Court in the Hague says so.
The state of Texas has seriously considered defying the federal government and re-asserting that the TSA procedures ARE a crime in spite of intense pressure to back down.
A Texas governor (and his allies) planning to run against the sitting President tries to embarrass the administration, not the best evidence to base an argument upon.
Nothing Saddam did in Iraq was a "crime" in the sense that he made the laws and he said it was all fine. That didn't make it true and it didn't save him.
The UN and the Hague considered Saddam's actions to be crimes, unlike the standard TSA pat down.
Again, annoying and ineffective, but not criminal.
Are there any extremophiles that produce oxygen? I can't remember any, but then again, I never studied them in depth. If not, it'd be rather pointless.
Well earth once had something like that, our atmosphere did not originally contain high levels of oxygen.
We ought to be seeding Mars with as many extremophile organisms as possible and in large enough numbers that they can start terraforming the atmosphere. Its going to happen when we get there ourselves, so we might as well get a head start.
Mars will not be terraformed. Mars has lost the magnetic field needed to protect life from solar radiation and to retain an atmosphere.
Previous Mars rovers have sat atop a lander platform for at least two Martian days (sols) before venturing into the regolith; any surviving bacteria attached to their wheels were therefore killed by the harsh UV light that bathes Mars.
Are we sure existing vehicles sterilized their wheels? It would seem they would need to roll forward a little during the process to expose the underside of the wheels. Wouldn't there be spots receiving little reflected UV given the texturing/treading of the wheels and the platform?
What makes you think it was terribly different back in the day? The hot actresses who play hippies in film and on TV are not exactly representative of reality. Imagine the average guy/girl you see in ordinary places - work, lunch time restaurant, gas station, *not* a trendy bar or nightclub. Now imagine them with the grooming/hygiene habits of Richard Stallman.:-(
Probably because enough of us have been patted down by the TSA to know it's all-too-plausible.
Those of us who have been patted down by the TSA know your opinion is silly. Were we annoyed, yes. Were we somewhat "insulted" since there is a presumption of guilt to some degree, yes. Would the TSA agent rather be checking your luggage rather than your body, yes. Is the TSA agent to blame for all of this, no. Would we prefer the gov't to be practical and realistic(*) rather than politically correct, yes. Is there the rare criminal working for the TSA, yes, just like every other industry and social group.
(*) Probably profiling, but more behavioral than cultural. Plus something like customs where the officer chats and asks a few questions while checking your passport/visa, etc. IIRC one of the ticket agents noted one of the 9/11 hijackers acting weird when they were chatting at the ticket counter.
... but they're the first to stand up and yell "innocent until proven guilty" when someone they can relate to...
It goes beyond the reasonable "innocent until proven guilty" comments. When a well known FOSS developer is actually charged with murder the sentiment around here seems to be "He's a well known and respected FOSS developer, I can't believe he did it".
Now consider the accusations against Assange(*). The accusers are of course CIA pawns, they couldn't possibly legitimately feel that they were abused.
(*) I wasn't there so I don't know what happened, neither do you.
Of course. However with an email you get even less, no independent/trusted confirmation of the connection and no case law to indicate how to settle disputes regarding the issues you raise. And in emails you also do not know what was transmitted.
My point is not that FAXs are perfect, it is that the author's opinion that emails are superior is premature. I think that those suing facebook over ownership once thought emails were a superior method of formal business communication as well, they may now hold a different opinion.
... e-mailing the entire company to tell them that you were fired...
This is why you fire people in person. While they are in your office you have IT cancel all their accounts and log them out of everything so they can not access the corporate network or email when they leave your office.
A FAX has a legal advantage. A third party, the phone company, can verify the sender, receiver and date/time. There is also a bunch of case law regarding when a FAX can be or must be accepted as a valid legal document.
Since the tree lines runs through the state. Yes, Alaska has lots of trees – but vast areas lie north of the tree line. Since he talks about flying into remote areas I would guess he would be far, far north. I would lay odds that the students have access to wood chips – but it is no guaranty.
I love lasers, but are lasers really more efficient in this particular application? The laser was stated to be 70% more efficient than the LED. However the laser light is not used directly. How much of that efficiency is lost as the light is converted in something "suitable for road traffic" and also something "pleasant"? Perhaps the real advantages lie in the design (more compact) and in the marketing.
I'm pretty sure it exploded about 21 million years ago.
In the star's POV, yes. In our POV, it just exploded.
No. Well not unless the speed of light is infinity all of a sudden. Given the speed of light we all know and love, and an object 21 million lightyears away, an event we observe happened 21 million years ago. IIRC its the velocity of the observer, not distance, that brings relativity into play.
From our reference frame, this happened hours ago. The summary is correct. You are not.
It happened 21 million years ago in both the frame of reference of the solar system of the star gone nova and in the frame of reference of our solar system. We may have only just seen the evidence but we know it is 21 million light years away, so we know when it happened. I don't think distance changes one's frame of reference, I think only motion does. Two travelers in our system, one at 0.25c and the other at 0.5c have different frames due to their respective velocities, not distance from the nova.
I will now patiently wait for actual physicists to correct my erroneous and simplistic belief.:-)
Actually, that was a really good systems programming book, in style and content during the Win95 era.
Windows 3.x actually. The Win95 version was a fairly straight derivative of the original and was a bit lacking due to that. It did go from 16-bit to 32-bit and it was expanded for the newer APIs to a degree but it did not stand out as it once did.
Jeffrey Richter's Advanced Windows was the stand out systems programming book for 32-bit Windows.
My question is this: why are corporations donating their code to Apache instead of just releasing them through the GPL and Sourceforge?
Corporations that want to continue to use the code are more likely to donate to Apache and use the Apache License. Fewer strings attached, much lower likelihood of unpleasant surprises in the next version of the license, etc. Basically open source without the politics and drama.
Corporations that are essentially abandoning/discontinuing the software are more likely to just putting it up on SourceForge and be done with it.
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I didn't realise being a mobster was a crime. I thought you actually had to commit a crime while in the mob to be charged; hence nailing Capone on tax evasion.
The RICO act, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Racketeer_Influenced_and_Corrupt_Organizations_Act, changed that in 1970. In particular leaders who directed or assisted those who actually committed the crime were now also part of the crime.
Those are some pretty silly straw men that you have manufactured there. Feel free to come back when you address a point that I actually made.
. Is the TSA agent to blame for all of this, no... Is there the rare criminal working for the TSA, yes, just like every other industry and social group.
Do these two sentences appear to contradict each other? Yes!
Not if you read them in context without gratuitous and self serving snipping. The first is referring to TSA policy in general and to all TSA agents in general, as the GP was referring to all of the TSA rather than a single agent. With this new knowledge try reading the original text again:
"Those of us who have been patted down by the TSA know your opinion is silly. Were we annoyed, yes. Were we somewhat "insulted" since there is a presumption of guilt to some degree, yes. Would the TSA agent rather be checking your luggage rather than your body, yes. Is the TSA agent to blame for all of this, no. Would we prefer the gov't to be practical and realistic(*) rather than politically correct, yes. Is there the rare criminal working for the TSA, yes, just like every other industry and social group."
Are you suffering from Cognitive Dissonance? Maybe!
No, but you seem to be suffering from a reading comprehension disorder. :-)
I am not an expert either but I think terraformers are kind of talking out of their ... too, or perhaps confusing fun science fiction with actual science. My understanding is that Mars no longer possesses a magnetic field that can shield it from solar radiation and maintain the type of atmosphere needed.
I believe part of the claim in this case is that the TSA agent gave a pat-down that was more "enhanced" (invasive) than it should have been. That could conceivably be a crime.
I agree. The post I responded to suggested this was a common sort of behavior, not an anomaly.
It may not be DEFINED by the U.S. government as a crime, but it's still a crime.
According to what jurisdiction? Please let us know when the UN or International Criminal Court in the Hague says so.
The state of Texas has seriously considered defying the federal government and re-asserting that the TSA procedures ARE a crime in spite of intense pressure to back down.
A Texas governor (and his allies) planning to run against the sitting President tries to embarrass the administration, not the best evidence to base an argument upon.
Nothing Saddam did in Iraq was a "crime" in the sense that he made the laws and he said it was all fine. That didn't make it true and it didn't save him.
The UN and the Hague considered Saddam's actions to be crimes, unlike the standard TSA pat down.
Again, annoying and ineffective, but not criminal.
Is the TSA agent to blame for all of this, no.
The principle that a person is individually responsible for serious crimes committed under orders is well established.
There is one problem with your point, the standard TSA pat down is not a crime.
Are there any extremophiles that produce oxygen? I can't remember any, but then again, I never studied them in depth. If not, it'd be rather pointless.
Well earth once had something like that, our atmosphere did not originally contain high levels of oxygen.
We ought to be seeding Mars with as many extremophile organisms as possible and in large enough numbers that they can start terraforming the atmosphere. Its going to happen when we get there ourselves, so we might as well get a head start.
Mars will not be terraformed. Mars has lost the magnetic field needed to protect life from solar radiation and to retain an atmosphere.
Previous Mars rovers have sat atop a lander platform for at least two Martian days (sols) before venturing into the regolith; any surviving bacteria attached to their wheels were therefore killed by the harsh UV light that bathes Mars.
Are we sure existing vehicles sterilized their wheels? It would seem they would need to roll forward a little during the process to expose the underside of the wheels. Wouldn't there be spots receiving little reflected UV given the texturing/treading of the wheels and the platform?
With the age they are now?
What makes you think it was terribly different back in the day? The hot actresses who play hippies in film and on TV are not exactly representative of reality. Imagine the average guy/girl you see in ordinary places - work, lunch time restaurant, gas station, *not* a trendy bar or nightclub. Now imagine them with the grooming/hygiene habits of Richard Stallman. :-(
Probably because enough of us have been patted down by the TSA to know it's all-too-plausible.
Those of us who have been patted down by the TSA know your opinion is silly. Were we annoyed, yes. Were we somewhat "insulted" since there is a presumption of guilt to some degree, yes. Would the TSA agent rather be checking your luggage rather than your body, yes. Is the TSA agent to blame for all of this, no. Would we prefer the gov't to be practical and realistic(*) rather than politically correct, yes. Is there the rare criminal working for the TSA, yes, just like every other industry and social group.
(*) Probably profiling, but more behavioral than cultural. Plus something like customs where the officer chats and asks a few questions while checking your passport/visa, etc. IIRC one of the ticket agents noted one of the 9/11 hijackers acting weird when they were chatting at the ticket counter.
... but they're the first to stand up and yell "innocent until proven guilty" when someone they can relate to ...
It goes beyond the reasonable "innocent until proven guilty" comments. When a well known FOSS developer is actually charged with murder the sentiment around here seems to be "He's a well known and respected FOSS developer, I can't believe he did it".
Now consider the accusations against Assange(*). The accusers are of course CIA pawns, they couldn't possibly legitimately feel that they were abused.
(*) I wasn't there so I don't know what happened, neither do you.
Of course. However with an email you get even less, no independent/trusted confirmation of the connection and no case law to indicate how to settle disputes regarding the issues you raise. And in emails you also do not know what was transmitted.
My point is not that FAXs are perfect, it is that the author's opinion that emails are superior is premature. I think that those suing facebook over ownership once thought emails were a superior method of formal business communication as well, they may now hold a different opinion.
... e-mailing the entire company to tell them that you were fired ...
This is why you fire people in person. While they are in your office you have IT cancel all their accounts and log them out of everything so they can not access the corporate network or email when they leave your office.
A FAX has a legal advantage. A third party, the phone company, can verify the sender, receiver and date/time. There is also a bunch of case law regarding when a FAX can be or must be accepted as a valid legal document.
Since the tree lines runs through the state. Yes, Alaska has lots of trees – but vast areas lie north of the tree line. Since he talks about flying into remote areas I would guess he would be far, far north. I would lay odds that the students have access to wood chips – but it is no guaranty.
I don't think the tree line is where you think. Note that it is the dark green line, not the orange line:
http://maps.grida.no/go/graphic/tree-line-in-the-arctic
There is no shortage of remote settlements below the tree line. And above the tree line you will find mostly oil industry workers.
Yeah I know, but something tells me these won't be cheap.
Well that's due to the BMW logo on the box. Whether its halogen, LED or laser in the box doesn't matter that much.
Now when it comes time to replace a head light, it will become a major spending decision!
Lasers are not necessarily expensive. Look at, figuratively since we are discussing lasers :-), CD/DVD players, laser pointers, etc.
I love lasers, but are lasers really more efficient in this particular application? The laser was stated to be 70% more efficient than the LED. However the laser light is not used directly. How much of that efficiency is lost as the light is converted in something "suitable for road traffic" and also something "pleasant"? Perhaps the real advantages lie in the design (more compact) and in the marketing.
I'm pretty sure it exploded about 21 million years ago.
In the star's POV, yes. In our POV, it just exploded.
No. Well not unless the speed of light is infinity all of a sudden. Given the speed of light we all know and love, and an object 21 million lightyears away, an event we observe happened 21 million years ago. IIRC its the velocity of the observer, not distance, that brings relativity into play.
From our reference frame, this happened hours ago. The summary is correct. You are not.
It happened 21 million years ago in both the frame of reference of the solar system of the star gone nova and in the frame of reference of our solar system. We may have only just seen the evidence but we know it is 21 million light years away, so we know when it happened. I don't think distance changes one's frame of reference, I think only motion does. Two travelers in our system, one at 0.25c and the other at 0.5c have different frames due to their respective velocities, not distance from the nova.
:-)
I will now patiently wait for actual physicists to correct my erroneous and simplistic belief.
Actually, that was a really good systems programming book, in style and content during the Win95 era.
Windows 3.x actually. The Win95 version was a fairly straight derivative of the original and was a bit lacking due to that. It did go from 16-bit to 32-bit and it was expanded for the newer APIs to a degree but it did not stand out as it once did.
Jeffrey Richter's Advanced Windows was the stand out systems programming book for 32-bit Windows.
That means any code the NSA didn't write themselves needs to be removed, replaced, or also donated by the owner.
Unless that code was "work for hire". If so the contractor (individual or company) has no rights to it, just like any other employee.
My question is this: why are corporations donating their code to Apache instead of just releasing them through the GPL and Sourceforge?
Corporations that want to continue to use the code are more likely to donate to Apache and use the Apache License. Fewer strings attached, much lower likelihood of unpleasant surprises in the next version of the license, etc. Basically open source without the politics and drama.
Corporations that are essentially abandoning/discontinuing the software are more likely to just putting it up on SourceForge and be done with it.