true, but New Mexico does have Concealed Carry, so when that thug comes to your car when you're trying to start it, threatens you, puts you in danger, just put two in his chest, and call the cops.
of course.... that window you're sitting next to is unbreakable isn't it. Or that convertable top can't be cut? Locking your doors won't stop a criminal stalking you. Of course the laws in this country are leaning more and more away from personal protection, so why should this be any different.
If you have the keys and are in the car, you've demonstrated your intention to drive.
Sometimes I'm really glad I live in Texas. In Texas to be charged with DWI, you have to be 1)Intoxicated (0.08%BAC),2)Driving the car (behind the wheel of the moving car), 3)on public roads (not on the farm, or in a parking lot).
Sitting drunk in your car with the engine running parked on the side of the street will get you a public intoxication citation.
Makes a hell of a lot more sense than a DWI when the car isn't moving.
With the new blood-alcohol limits, it doesn't take much to put an average human over the limit.
of course lowering the limits as far as they are isn't doing as much to save lives as it is to increase the work upon our police and legal system. BAC levels of convicted drivers hasn't changed signifigantly since before the levels were lowered. What does this mean? It means the police and courts are spending more time dealing with the drivers that are 0.08-0.099%. Also, those drivers aren't causing accidents like the 0.10+ folks are. actually, the break in the curve as far as the statistics go is at 0.115-0.12% depending on whose numbers you look at.
So who keeps lowering the BAC levels? MADD
when the founder of the organization is quoted as saying she works for the liquor lobby now because MADD has gone away from preventing people from driving drunk, and towards prohibitionism. The current president of MADD is quoted as saying her target BAC level nationwide is 0.00%.
so what's the point of this post? I agree that it doesn't take much to put the average human over the legal limits, and that's a shame, because those legal limits are low because of political pressure, not public safety.
Hell, to fly a plane, you only have to have been not drinking for 8hrs and have a BAC of less than 0.04%, and MADD wants 0.00% ??
if some one breaks into my house while I'm there, I'm not going to assume he's there to take my TV and DVD player. Burglers who break in when people are home are the craziest ones out there.
I hear someone in my house when there's not supposed to be anyone, and first I grab the handgun, second I rack the pump shotgun and start yelling for them to "GET THE FUCK OUT OF MY HOUSE OR I'LL BLOW YOUR FUCKING HEAD OFF!!!" when they come around the corner into my well lit bedroom, and I don't konw who it is, and they have a weapon, they die. It's that simple.
Now if they hear me yelling, grab the DVD and run out the back door, then good for them, they just saved their life, and I'm not chasing them. One, I'm lazy, two it's stupid.
I think we're on the same side here. language selection shouldn't determine readability, but I agree it is a factor.
I've long though there needs to be a braces option in python. Like you say, it is a minor issue, and too many people harp on it. There are nits to pick with all languages (except maybe ruby, but I haven't looked at it enough yet to say). You can't please everyone, nor should you.
there's no reason to obfuscate python or perl. (or any other language) Readability should not be a question of what language you're using, but a question of what programmer is writing the code.
don't even get me started on the fortran-like indentation nazi-ism. That's not what we're discussing. That's a whole different rant.
badly written python is just as hard to read as badly written perl, or C, or Java, or C++, or miranda, or pascal, or basic, or blah blah blah... yada yada yada...
point being, not all perl is obsfucated, and not all python is like reading english.
if said sane person isn't very good with a map and compass, what the hell are they doing trying to navigate across desert playa? (or anything other than your basic roads & rec GPS mapset)
if you want to know how to navigate, find your local BSA Scout Shop. Go buy an Orienteering Merit Badge Book. I think the price has gone up to $3.25. take the change from your couch. while your there, spend $10 on a nice compass. Then go buy a nice usgs sectional map, and learn how it works.
If you have coords for something that isn't marked on a map, read the merit badge book you just bought. It will tell you how to find those coords on your map. Than use your pencil (you do have a pencil don't you?) and it's marked on the map.
as for the accuracy check. most modern GPS systems will tell you how far off they think they are. And while it's usually right. The fixed position check is a good one. Surveying markers are good places to start with. Also a nice feature of most modern GPS's is point averaging. You can just let in run for a minute or two and it will average all it's readings. (doesn't mean it's more accurate, but when doing a check against a known point, it's not a bad way to go)
It's free to the point in crosses th router port to my network. Once I'm paying for the bandwidth and storage, it's not free anymore. It's mine. And if I don't want to propigate articles that are binary and not in binary groups, that's my business. If I don't want to accept or propigate articles from a certain troublesome ISP, that's my business.
spam costs money to receive. the costs are just hidden as something else.
well, reading some of the other comments here, some people are more clueful. UDP'ing isn't just about stopping traffic from one source. It's also about getting other ISP's to cooperate is stopping spam. So this "drop in the bucket" (admitidly, the traffic that is part of the case for the UDP is about 1/10 of one percent of that traffic) will also help convince other admins to cooperate with news admins.
On the other hand, having done the math, 0.11% is still a lot of traffic for one ISP to be generating. If there were only 1000 ISP's, then ok, that's about average, but if you look at sources of usenet articles (Freenix Top 1000) there are 2 bigpond, and 3 telstra servers listed in the top 1000. in the (admitidly old) Feb 2001 stats. What this tells me is that they handle quite a bit of usenet traffic. taking them out of the spam equation should be more than a "drop in the bucket".
when I left dejanews, we were receiving (pre-filter) about 60GB of news a day. (yes, that's a G ). Post-filtering, it was usually less than 1GB, usually around 950MB. Most of that bandwidth was misplaced binaries. So 59GB a day of spam and binaries in non-binary newsgroups (misplaced binaries is one of the charges in this UDP).
Make no mistake about it, spam and misplaced binaries do cost you money. 59GB/day of wasted bandwidth is not free.
to be effective "enough" a UDP only needs the participation of a couple dozen of the biggest usenet server admins. And for someone like Telstra, they will participate.
The second phase of this proposed UDP, will only require the participation af a few cancelbots. While some servers ignore cancels, it is to their advantage to obey pgp-signed cancels, and cancels that can be verified as coming from a good source. Those who ignore these cancels, will simply be storing the extra articles themselves, and hurting only themselves and their peers.
If a criminal knows that you are probably armed, he is more likely to be more violent
Actually, and I think most will agree with this point, criminals are lazy. This causes most of them to try and find someone who probably doesn't have a gun.
This from studies of crime rates in states that have enacted concealed-carry laws. (More Guns, Less Crime)
ok, I'll concede that the robber improperly used his firearm, and as a result, was killed by the proper use of another firearm (that of the owner).
Of course all the gun-control laws in the world won't stop the criminal in this example of having the gun to improperly use in the first place, so talking about a criminal improperly using a gun isn't really germane to a gun-control discussion. (which is what this topic has turned into)
I'd say that the 17-year old gang banger who got shot by the owner of a liquor store died from the proper use of a handgun. It would be improper use if the owner of the liquor store blew his own foot off when the gang-banger tried to rob him.
Amen. I've been an FVWM user for quite a while. Once in a while, I'll try out the default desktop for a new install, but I always end up back at my good old small memory footprint fvwm2.
no kidding, I'm talking to a guy about a 45K/yr NOC operater job. 3rd shift. It's more than triple unemployment, why would I quit when Q4 is starting?? Nobody hires during Q4/Q1.
Time to start ebaying things around the house I guess...
I work for the state right now. Our group does research for the DOD. State job funded by Federal money. Bulletproof right? WRONG! layoffs all-around. Things are dismal all over.
Yes, I misspelled Academia. But I meant to. You'll end up working with a bunch of PhD's who "know it all" and don't know the first thing about process.
I ended up at a research group in Austin, TX bored out of my skull, stuck in an iterative programming process with a bunch of people who "knew they were right".
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How about "Card counting is not illegal, unless an external assistance device is used in the counting proecess".
Now, is it cheating? Merriam-Webster defines cheat as "to violate rules dishonestly". Are the rules of blackjack being violated? No. Are the casino rules being violated? Yes. So what are they cheating at if they are cheating? They're not cheating at blackjack, the rules of the game don't cover counting. Are they cheating the house? Maybe. Depends on how you look at it.
But it certainly isn't illegal. Nor would I consider it "wrong". Knowing more about how a game works and using that knowledge to your advantage isn't wrong. It may change the odds of the game, and it's outcome, but playing a game without knowing how it works would be considered foolish by many.
anyone who wins consistantly will be noticed. if you only win a few thousand a week, they may not notice you as quickly, but the pit bosses at the $5 tables are going to notice. And when they notice, you'll either be asked to leave, or told to leave.
Or, they'll keep you around and see that you play more action. Once it all goes to your head, you screw up a couple of times, then you lose it all back.
I was playing at the gold nugget in Vegas, and though they didn't tell me, I'm pretty sure I was ID'd as a counter. I had a weak dealer that was slow and easy to count with. In about 10 minutes, I made about $300 on him (at the $5 table) while betting $5-25/hand. The dealer got changed out to one who was much faster and hard to count. I quickly lost the count, and about $100 of my winnings. I turned into what the article referred to as a "bad counter". My mistakes turned my strategy against me. I say I was ID'd because the dealers usually change after 20 minutes, and this one only took about 10 minutes. Overall gambling-wise, I finished that 3 day trip up about $300, but had spent that much on other things while there. So it was a wash for me, and them. And I'll be back, they know it.
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true, but New Mexico does have Concealed Carry, so when that thug comes to your car when you're trying to start it, threatens you, puts you in danger, just put two in his chest, and call the cops.
of course.... that window you're sitting next to is unbreakable isn't it. Or that convertable top can't be cut? Locking your doors won't stop a criminal stalking you. Of course the laws in this country are leaning more and more away from personal protection, so why should this be any different.
If you have the keys and are in the car, you've demonstrated your intention to drive.
,2)Driving the car (behind the wheel of the moving car), 3)on public roads (not on the farm, or in a parking lot).
Sometimes I'm really glad I live in Texas. In Texas to be charged with DWI, you have to be 1)Intoxicated (0.08%BAC)
Sitting drunk in your car with the engine running parked on the side of the street will get you a public intoxication citation.
Makes a hell of a lot more sense than a DWI when the car isn't moving.
With the new blood-alcohol limits, it doesn't take much to put an average human over the limit.
of course lowering the limits as far as they are isn't doing as much to save lives as it is to increase the work upon our police and legal system. BAC levels of convicted drivers hasn't changed signifigantly since before the levels were lowered. What does this mean? It means the police and courts are spending more time dealing with the drivers that are 0.08-0.099%. Also, those drivers aren't causing accidents like the 0.10+ folks are. actually, the break in the curve as far as the statistics go is at 0.115-0.12% depending on whose numbers you look at.
So who keeps lowering the BAC levels? MADD
when the founder of the organization is quoted as saying she works for the liquor lobby now because MADD has gone away from preventing people from driving drunk, and towards prohibitionism. The current president of MADD is quoted as saying her target BAC level nationwide is 0.00%.
so what's the point of this post? I agree that it doesn't take much to put the average human over the legal limits, and that's a shame, because those legal limits are low because of political pressure, not public safety.
Hell, to fly a plane, you only have to have been not drinking for 8hrs and have a BAC of less than 0.04%, and MADD wants 0.00% ??
Move to texas. Here, if you wound the guy, he can't sue you. But you're right, you should definately kill the fucker in the first place.
if some one breaks into my house while I'm there, I'm not going to assume he's there to take my TV and DVD player. Burglers who break in when people are home are the craziest ones out there.
I hear someone in my house when there's not supposed to be anyone, and first I grab the handgun, second I rack the pump shotgun and start yelling for them to "GET THE FUCK OUT OF MY HOUSE OR I'LL BLOW YOUR FUCKING HEAD OFF!!!" when they come around the corner into my well lit bedroom, and I don't konw who it is, and they have a weapon, they die. It's that simple.
Now if they hear me yelling, grab the DVD and run out the back door, then good for them, they just saved their life, and I'm not chasing them. One, I'm lazy, two it's stupid.
I think we're on the same side here. language selection shouldn't determine readability, but I agree it is a factor.
I've long though there needs to be a braces option in python. Like you say, it is a minor issue, and too many people harp on it. There are nits to pick with all languages (except maybe ruby, but I haven't looked at it enough yet to say). You can't please everyone, nor should you.
you may have missed my point.
there's no reason to obfuscate python or perl. (or any other language) Readability should not be a question of what language you're using, but a question of what programmer is writing the code.
don't even get me started on the fortran-like indentation nazi-ism. That's not what we're discussing. That's a whole different rant.
badly written python is just as hard to read as badly written perl, or C, or Java, or C++, or miranda, or pascal, or basic, or blah blah blah... yada yada yada...
point being, not all perl is obsfucated, and not all python is like reading english.
the guy didn't have to be such an ass about it.
He might have put up a page that said "woah, too much traffic. find mirrors at......
but no....
if said sane person isn't very good with a map and compass, what the hell are they doing trying to navigate across desert playa? (or anything other than your basic roads & rec GPS mapset)
if you want to know how to navigate, find your local BSA Scout Shop. Go buy an Orienteering Merit Badge Book. I think the price has gone up to $3.25. take the change from your couch. while your there, spend $10 on a nice compass. Then go buy a nice usgs sectional map, and learn how it works.
If you have coords for something that isn't marked on a map, read the merit badge book you just bought. It will tell you how to find those coords on your map. Than use your pencil (you do have a pencil don't you?) and it's marked on the map.
as for the accuracy check. most modern GPS systems will tell you how far off they think they are. And while it's usually right. The fixed position check is a good one. Surveying markers are good places to start with. Also a nice feature of most modern GPS's is point averaging. You can just let in run for a minute or two and it will average all it's readings. (doesn't mean it's more accurate, but when doing a check against a known point, it's not a bad way to go)
It's free to the point in crosses th router port to my network. Once I'm paying for the bandwidth and storage, it's not free anymore. It's mine. And if I don't want to propigate articles that are binary and not in binary groups, that's my business. If I don't want to accept or propigate articles from a certain troublesome ISP, that's my business.
spam costs money to receive. the costs are just hidden as something else.
well, reading some of the other comments here, some people are more clueful. UDP'ing isn't just about stopping traffic from one source. It's also about getting other ISP's to cooperate is stopping spam. So this "drop in the bucket" (admitidly, the traffic that is part of the case for the UDP is about 1/10 of one percent of that traffic) will also help convince other admins to cooperate with news admins.
On the other hand, having done the math, 0.11% is still a lot of traffic for one ISP to be generating. If there were only 1000 ISP's, then ok, that's about average, but if you look at sources of usenet articles (Freenix Top 1000) there are 2 bigpond, and 3 telstra servers listed in the top 1000. in the (admitidly old) Feb 2001 stats. What this tells me is that they handle quite a bit of usenet traffic. taking them out of the spam equation should be more than a "drop in the bucket".
when I left dejanews, we were receiving (pre-filter) about 60GB of news a day. (yes, that's a G ). Post-filtering, it was usually less than 1GB, usually around 950MB. Most of that bandwidth was misplaced binaries. So 59GB a day of spam and binaries in non-binary newsgroups (misplaced binaries is one of the charges in this UDP).
Make no mistake about it, spam and misplaced binaries do cost you money. 59GB/day of wasted bandwidth is not free.
you know not of which you speak.
to be effective "enough" a UDP only needs the participation of a couple dozen of the biggest usenet server admins. And for someone like Telstra, they will participate.
The second phase of this proposed UDP, will only require the participation af a few cancelbots. While some servers ignore cancels, it is to their advantage to obey pgp-signed cancels, and cancels that can be verified as coming from a good source. Those who ignore these cancels, will simply be storing the extra articles themselves, and hurting only themselves and their peers.
If a criminal knows that you are probably armed, he is more likely to be more violent
Actually, and I think most will agree with this point, criminals are lazy. This causes most of them to try and find someone who probably doesn't have a gun.
This from studies of crime rates in states that have enacted concealed-carry laws. (More Guns, Less Crime)
ok, I'll concede that the robber improperly used his firearm, and as a result, was killed by the proper use of another firearm (that of the owner).
Of course all the gun-control laws in the world won't stop the criminal in this example of having the gun to improperly use in the first place, so talking about a criminal improperly using a gun isn't really germane to a gun-control discussion. (which is what this topic has turned into)
I'd say that the 17-year old gang banger who got shot by the owner of a liquor store died from the proper use of a handgun. It would be improper use if the owner of the liquor store blew his own foot off when the gang-banger tried to rob him.
Amen. I've been an FVWM user for quite a while. Once in a while, I'll try out the default desktop for a new install, but I always end up back at my good old small memory footprint fvwm2.
no kidding, I'm talking to a guy about a 45K/yr NOC operater job. 3rd shift. It's more than triple unemployment, why would I quit when Q4 is starting?? Nobody hires during Q4/Q1.
Time to start ebaying things around the house I guess...
In my experience, once you reach a certain experience level, having the degree doesn't add to your salary.
So is being experienced a liablilty? Hell yes. I can't even get a JR sysadmin job right now because I'm "Over-qualified"
I work for the state right now. Our group does research for the DOD. State job funded by Federal money. Bulletproof right? WRONG! layoffs all-around. Things are dismal all over.
Yes, I misspelled Academia. But I meant to. You'll end up working with a bunch of PhD's who "know it all" and don't know the first thing about process.
I ended up at a research group in Austin, TX bored out of my skull, stuck in an iterative programming process with a bunch of people who "knew they were right".
How about "Card counting is not illegal, unless an external assistance device is used in the counting proecess".
Now, is it cheating? Merriam-Webster defines cheat as "to violate rules dishonestly". Are the rules of blackjack being violated? No. Are the casino rules being violated? Yes. So what are they cheating at if they are cheating? They're not cheating at blackjack, the rules of the game don't cover counting. Are they cheating the house? Maybe. Depends on how you look at it.
But it certainly isn't illegal. Nor would I consider it "wrong". Knowing more about how a game works and using that knowledge to your advantage isn't wrong. It may change the odds of the game, and it's outcome, but playing a game without knowing how it works would be considered foolish by many.
anyone who wins consistantly will be noticed. if you only win a few thousand a week, they may not notice you as quickly, but the pit bosses at the $5 tables are going to notice. And when they notice, you'll either be asked to leave, or told to leave.
Or, they'll keep you around and see that you play more action. Once it all goes to your head, you screw up a couple of times, then you lose it all back.
I was playing at the gold nugget in Vegas, and though they didn't tell me, I'm pretty sure I was ID'd as a counter. I had a weak dealer that was slow and easy to count with. In about 10 minutes, I made about $300 on him (at the $5 table) while betting $5-25/hand. The dealer got changed out to one who was much faster and hard to count. I quickly lost the count, and about $100 of my winnings. I turned into what the article referred to as a "bad counter". My mistakes turned my strategy against me. I say I was ID'd because the dealers usually change after 20 minutes, and this one only took about 10 minutes. Overall gambling-wise, I finished that 3 day trip up about $300, but had spent that much on other things while there. So it was a wash for me, and them. And I'll be back, they know it.