Is there any evidence that five letter acronyms of this kind were ever used?
His decryption just sounds made up. JW stands for "Jerry's Whereabouts"? Would "Jerry" ever be used in an official communication? Why does the message use "HV" for "have," then later "D" for "determined," and later still "K" for "know," all which are used as more or less synonymous?
PABLIZ looks a lot more like "PABUZ" on the original note to me, too, and makes far more sense given the rest of the five-letter blocks.
An island crown dependency of the UK (technically not in the UK, but British) with slightly looser gun laws than the UK itself.
The US may be just as big as those other 23 all put together (probably not quite that big, but maybe)... I don't know either and since you didn't look it up I won't either!;)
I got close to the US population with 10 of a list of 23 richest, mainly thanks to Japan. The UK is just outside the top 23 on most lists.
But I do know, that here today and now, I'd rather have one and not need it that need one and not have one.
I'd much prefer that there was no such society that gave reasonable people such as yourself cause to think that way. I get the feeling you'd agree - who wouldn't? - but I guess we all have to make do with what we've got.
Bribing, threatening, or extorting, public officials should be a no-no.
Well, yes, but what's that got to do with this? Being a member of a political party doesn't make you a public official, and the only thing being threatened here is legal action, which is perfectly, well, legal.
I spent my first two years of calculus lectures sleeping in. I scored near perfect in both classes. WHY do people have to be at lectures they don't need, again?
And how do you prove you don't need the lectures? Sit an exam every week on what's been taught so far? For every one who's lucky enough to get away with it, how many more are wasting taxpayer time and money?
I'm pretty sure their huge device is just not accurate enough.
Of course! This would surely not have occurred to the particle physicists who built and operate the machine and published these results. It's a good job there are people like you who read about things on the internet and therefore know more than they do.
Two separate measurements can give different results based on how they configured the device.
I think they did a few more than two measurements, and I doubt they're dumb enough to go fiddling with the detector in the middle of a run.
Whether you need them (or will eventually need them) and whether you're happy without them are two different things.
Fine. We don't need them, either. And I doubt I could ever understand why you think you do (if you want an example of somewhere where citizens actually do need guns, try Damascus). At the best of times the US attitude to guns looks bizarre from over here (oh, and please accept my apologies for daring to express an opinion on something that happens to members of my species on the planet I live on), but at times like this, frankly, it looks full-on bat-shit crazy.
The United States is responsible for over 80% of all the gun deaths in the 23 richest countries combined, or so I've read (not sure how that works out per capita though). Doesn't that seem just a little bit wrong to you? I'm not going to claim gun control would be the definitive answer, but when you're supposed to be the world's most civilised country, and yet at least once a year one of your citizens shoots and kills dozens in a single incident, it's got to be worth thinking about, hasn't it?
It's just utterly unthinkable, to me, that there isn't something dreadfully wrong somewhere. Is it the gun laws? Is it the general attitude to guns? Is it paranoia driven by the American media's obsession with blood, guts, and gun crime? No idea. I know where I'd start, though.
You're probably pissed off at my holier-than-thou attitude. Well, when your country has had one school shooting of this kind in the last 16 years (possibly ever) and actually got off its arse and reacted to it, I'd say that, as a country, we've earned it on this one. But if the 27 lives lost today and the countless others before them don't outweigh the "need" for that feeling of security (or is it just adequacy, for some?) that comes from owning a gun, then very little argument is likely to do so, is it?
Gun ownership (by LAW ABIDING PEOPLE) REDUCES crime, study after study confirms this.
What do you have to say about that?
By definition law-abiding people don't commit crimes, so your statement is pretty meaningless.
Breaking of the speed limit (by TRAINED AMBULANCE DRIVERS) actually SAVES lives!
If you're in a room of twenty people, and one of them pulls out a gun and starts shooting people, would you prefer to NOT have a fucking gun, and just have to wait to be shot dead?
Oh goody, the "if" game. If you're in a room of twenty people, and a serial killer who only kills people who don't have syphilis comes in, would you prefer NOT to have syphilis? If so, you should go out and get syphilis, right?
there have been about 1000 deaths due to lightning strikes
Not much you can do about that.
25 due to (unprovoked) shark attacks
Ditto.
3000 due to international terrorism
And look how fast (too fast) they leapt into action over that one.
So we really ought to be more concerned about... box cutters
"We" apparently were more concerned about them, because something got done. Not sure what it's going to take for something to get done about whatever it is (ease of access to weapons, the whole damn attitude to guns) that allows this to happen time and again.
But the answer is "never" because higher than 30FPS is useless for video, as the Hobbit is demonstrating.
It's not useless at all - it's just not "cinematic," and that's only down to 100 years of convention. News, sport, other live events - all are broadcast at 50/60fps. A few years ago a number of BBC and ITV soap operas made the transition from 50 to 25 - and guess what? Everyone complained!
Video games have needed higher framerates because they don't do motion blur, so the frames don't blend together quite right.
Wrong. Games using higher framerates (some do, anyway, a lot of console ones stick at 25/30) are more realistic and easier to play if the framerate more closely matches reality.
You're throwing more frames at the screen than needed to create the illusion of motion. Throwing more at the screen disrupts the illusion.
Utterly wrong. It obviously enhances the illusion of motion. The trouble is, it's different to what we're used to at the cinema. That's all.
For your next trick, try getting a real hobby.
Try not dumping on others just because they don't share your interests, douchebag.
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Learn how to put your point across in a calm, reasonable manner, and people might start listening to you.
Is there any evidence that five letter acronyms of this kind were ever used?
His decryption just sounds made up. JW stands for "Jerry's Whereabouts"? Would "Jerry" ever be used in an official communication? Why does the message use "HV" for "have," then later "D" for "determined," and later still "K" for "know," all which are used as more or less synonymous?
PABLIZ looks a lot more like "PABUZ" on the original note to me, too, and makes far more sense given the rest of the five-letter blocks.
In 17 minutes he certainly wouldn't have time to find a set of conditions that matched the acronyms he was claiming.
What about in the couple of months or so that this has been public knowledge?
Are you sure it wasn't a faulty custom memory device instead?
On the contrary. Threatening legal action as a form of extortion is called "Barratry" and is illegal.
What indications are there that this is what's happening here?
Has anyone definitively ruled, in court, that it isn't?
I still don't know what country your from
An island crown dependency of the UK (technically not in the UK, but British) with slightly looser gun laws than the UK itself.
The US may be just as big as those other 23 all put together (probably not quite that big, but maybe)... I don't know either and since you didn't look it up I won't either! ;)
I got close to the US population with 10 of a list of 23 richest, mainly thanks to Japan. The UK is just outside the top 23 on most lists.
But I do know, that here today and now, I'd rather have one and not need it that need one and not have one.
I'd much prefer that there was no such society that gave reasonable people such as yourself cause to think that way. I get the feeling you'd agree - who wouldn't? - but I guess we all have to make do with what we've got.
Bribing, threatening, or extorting, public officials should be a no-no.
Well, yes, but what's that got to do with this? Being a member of a political party doesn't make you a public official, and the only thing being threatened here is legal action, which is perfectly, well, legal.
I spent my first two years of calculus lectures sleeping in. I scored near perfect in both classes. WHY do people have to be at lectures they don't need, again?
And how do you prove you don't need the lectures? Sit an exam every week on what's been taught so far? For every one who's lucky enough to get away with it, how many more are wasting taxpayer time and money?
...news for...
Well, just "news," I guess.
Will whoever was responsible for failing to implement a proper IS policy be expecting a similar visit from the Feds?
No, because gaining unauthorised access to a system and failing to do your job properly are two entirely different things.
The moon's gravity gradient lifts water mid-ocean (where the ocean is deep) no more than 1 meter
This is my new thing I've learned for the day.
I don't think they exist.
I'm pretty sure their huge device is just not accurate enough.
Of course! This would surely not have occurred to the particle physicists who built and operate the machine and published these results. It's a good job there are people like you who read about things on the internet and therefore know more than they do.
Two separate measurements can give different results based on how they configured the device.
I think they did a few more than two measurements, and I doubt they're dumb enough to go fiddling with the detector in the middle of a run.
Damn floccinaucinihilipilificationists...
Do you even have a frigging clue how the periodic table works?
Do you even have a frigging clue what sarcasm looks like?
Turned out the moon was actually causing distortion to the surrounding land by a few metres
Holy crap. We had to build the LHC to notice this?
Are you sure it wasn't more like millimetres?
Whether you need them (or will eventually need them) and whether you're happy without them are two different things.
Fine. We don't need them, either. And I doubt I could ever understand why you think you do (if you want an example of somewhere where citizens actually do need guns, try Damascus). At the best of times the US attitude to guns looks bizarre from over here (oh, and please accept my apologies for daring to express an opinion on something that happens to members of my species on the planet I live on), but at times like this, frankly, it looks full-on bat-shit crazy.
The United States is responsible for over 80% of all the gun deaths in the 23 richest countries combined, or so I've read (not sure how that works out per capita though). Doesn't that seem just a little bit wrong to you? I'm not going to claim gun control would be the definitive answer, but when you're supposed to be the world's most civilised country, and yet at least once a year one of your citizens shoots and kills dozens in a single incident, it's got to be worth thinking about, hasn't it?
It's just utterly unthinkable, to me, that there isn't something dreadfully wrong somewhere. Is it the gun laws? Is it the general attitude to guns? Is it paranoia driven by the American media's obsession with blood, guts, and gun crime? No idea. I know where I'd start, though.
You're probably pissed off at my holier-than-thou attitude. Well, when your country has had one school shooting of this kind in the last 16 years (possibly ever) and actually got off its arse and reacted to it, I'd say that, as a country, we've earned it on this one. But if the 27 lives lost today and the countless others before them don't outweigh the "need" for that feeling of security (or is it just adequacy, for some?) that comes from owning a gun, then very little argument is likely to do so, is it?
I'm guessing a rapist exhibits some signs of violence prior to dual-raping women with a pistol.
I'm pretty sure some of them don't.
Exactly. And this is why citizens need firearms.
We're all pretty happy without them, here.
Gun ownership (by LAW ABIDING PEOPLE) REDUCES crime, study after study confirms this. What do you have to say about that?
By definition law-abiding people don't commit crimes, so your statement is pretty meaningless.
Breaking of the speed limit (by TRAINED AMBULANCE DRIVERS) actually SAVES lives!
If you're in a room of twenty people, and one of them pulls out a gun and starts shooting people, would you prefer to NOT have a fucking gun, and just have to wait to be shot dead?
Oh goody, the "if" game. If you're in a room of twenty people, and a serial killer who only kills people who don't have syphilis comes in, would you prefer NOT to have syphilis? If so, you should go out and get syphilis, right?
there have been about 1000 deaths due to lightning strikes
Not much you can do about that.
25 due to (unprovoked) shark attacks
Ditto.
3000 due to international terrorism
And look how fast (too fast) they leapt into action over that one.
So we really ought to be more concerned about ... box cutters
"We" apparently were more concerned about them, because something got done. Not sure what it's going to take for something to get done about whatever it is (ease of access to weapons, the whole damn attitude to guns) that allows this to happen time and again.
A 90lb 5ft tall college girl isn't going to be able to fight off a gangrape with her strength alone, with a gun she can.
Might.
Also, goes both ways. One guy might not be able to rape two women by himself, but with a gun...
This is the purpose guns serve... the point of guns is to level the playing field when it comes to defending one's self.
The purpose of guns is to kill things. The rest is incidental.
I'm not a big fan of the singular use of the word "this," but...
This.
But the answer is "never" because higher than 30FPS is useless for video, as the Hobbit is demonstrating.
It's not useless at all - it's just not "cinematic," and that's only down to 100 years of convention. News, sport, other live events - all are broadcast at 50/60fps. A few years ago a number of BBC and ITV soap operas made the transition from 50 to 25 - and guess what? Everyone complained!
Video games have needed higher framerates because they don't do motion blur, so the frames don't blend together quite right.
Wrong. Games using higher framerates (some do, anyway, a lot of console ones stick at 25/30) are more realistic and easier to play if the framerate more closely matches reality.
You're throwing more frames at the screen than needed to create the illusion of motion. Throwing more at the screen disrupts the illusion.
Utterly wrong. It obviously enhances the illusion of motion. The trouble is, it's different to what we're used to at the cinema. That's all.
For your next trick, try getting a real hobby.
Try not dumping on others just because they don't share your interests, douchebag.