I'm careful about saying "never", so allow for argument's sake times when you'd want to talk to police: - To report a crime, or file a report. This can be your only saving grace when taking someone else to court. - In the event of emergency. Asking an officer's help during an injury or other occurrence. Maybe you are in need of an emergency escort to the hospital.
Maybe I could come up with more, but you get the point.
But yeah, otherwise never talk to police. I should know well enough from personal experience. They play their games, offer threats, lie to you, get pouty... But the experience of dealing with an unhappy police officer beats going to jail any day. (Well any day unless they decide to kill you)
Also, if they are keeping your company, ask specifically if you are being detained, not arrested as you say. If they say 'no', you can say goodbye at that point. If you are under arrest, they're pretty good about telling you that (usually right before handcuffs are applied).
I actually agree with you on the existence of legitimate purposes for secrecy, and that the situation for this article may well be such a legitimate need.
The problem is that a great deal of illegitimate secrecy occurs and this very abuse of government is a threat to national security in itself. It allows for systematic abuses (I like the example of Abu Grahib torture) when that blanket of secrecy becomes so large that many government entities can sweep their abuses under it. Dick Cheney even made his own original rubber stamp (literally!) to designate secrecy indiscriminately.
My issue is that in the broader picture of security and well being for a nation, and for the nations with whom we are all globally connected, there are much more direct ways to improve the state of the world than through military action, public dialogue of threat, and secrecy in abducting and torturing individuals in the manner that the united states government has conducted itself post-9/11.
I think that the strength of the united states would be shown in providing food, healthcare, childcare, education, and housing more effectively to its constituents rather than showing its weakness by investing so heavily in military action that necessitates its own growth.
I love history and there are MANY fascinating examples of dramatic power shift of the leakage of sensitive information. Would I want to put my country at a disadvantage just in the name of indiscriminately freeing information? NO! But at the same time, I don't kid myself for a minute that any such disadvantage could compare to that wrought upon a people by its own government.
"Why?" Is a very good question. I strongly believe in government transparency. The security of a nation's people, what I consider a "nation", relies on being able to hold accountable the authority of said nation that monopolizes violent force to govern itself. When the police, military, and high levels of government operate in secrecy, history has shown such an environment is a perfect breeding ground for abuse. To an extreme, it is totalitarianism. Police already see everyone as a potential criminal, and to seek change there is an effort lost at its conception.
It could be argued that the Abu Graib torture photos compromised national security, and indeed people who did not deserve death were caught up in the violence that followed.
In order to be convicted of treason, one must be arrested and then successfully prosecuted. I do not suggest action that would result in those two happening.
As far as treason and national security go, I find it downright obvious that the terrorists in the white house are more responsible for death, terror, and overall reversal in human greatness than anything the alqueda-style terrorists could hope to achieve. That is, unless you wish to credit al-queda with enabling their actions.
Okay, admittedly, giving the data to wikileaks would be something that I would do given the situation, which is certainly not for everyone.
I can't say what wikileaks would do to anonymize the data, but it's not that hard to cleanse exif data yourself.
The intent is not to taunt the organizations responsible, but to punish them for their carelessness. Lessons learned the hard way tend to stick.
Who said anything about taunting a TLA? I don't even know what that is. I don't taunt any police organization besides purposefully seeking justice in a court of law or asserting my rights during an encounter.
I've been reading achewood regularly for a few years now, and I think the radio interview did well in pointing out that the comic is about the characters and dialogue more than complex artwork or the "heh" factor. C.and.H compares better to Sinfest, and those are very different types of comic. For achewood, the dialogue is the real nut meat and it really needs that many panels to fill its proper space. As chris says in the interview, it's the "sunday comics format".
During the interview (did you listen?), Chris talked about how the story arc for the book he's discussing went on for about three months. Sometimes readers lose interest in those periods, and so be it.
One could say Picasso is a bad artist compared to Rembrandt because his portraits aren't as realistic.
There's a link at the site directing npr listeners to reader favorites. This one is recent and stands well on its own. Philippe is such a heartwarming character: http://achewood.com/index.php?date=08222007
Sounds like you already have what you're asking for. I run a full linux web dev environment in vmware on windows. It's very convenient, having its own IP address and saving me the hassle of running a separate machine. I have my web folders accessible through samba and can experiment freely without worrying about botching anything up.
My vote for worst goes to mi3 - the first one made after ron gilbert was no longer involved. I was completely thrilled to play mi2, and even got a teaser postcard mailed to me from lucasarts! The artwork was magnificent!
My introduction to R.Gilbert's work was monkey island 1 (ega 16-color version) when I was 8 I think. The box art drew me in, and the details upon the back sold me. Ron, if you read this - Thanks so much for the lifelong influence and I'm glad to see you making new games!
ha! after 12 months, I actually paid for glider and got banned three weeks later. It wasn't worth it for me to play without that and now I don't have to worry about wow at all. That game is too repetitive in so many ways and it's so slow running around everywhere that I think it actually discourages exploration. Plus it's a lot of work to manage all that inventory and auctioning.
getting on a [simulated] track with a full field of other drivers and racing against them safely involves as much commitment and time investment as if you went to racing school.
Oh, so it takes less time than actually playing WoW.
Maybe this time at least you'll be able to pick up a roll of duct tape (by running your character over it, natch) so that you can use your gun AND the flashlight.
WRONG! - it has to do with how the performances are judged and that younger gymnasts possess an advantage somehow that I don't have links to refresh my knowledge. I heard a detailed story about this on NPR a few weeks ago.
I'd be happy to have you substantiate your claim with some kind of linkage.
You know, most of the pirated game releases I've come across aren't nefarious products of people with "at best questionable morality". They're heavily community-oriented, giving shouts out to people and crews and recruiting qualified crackers. And get this: a lot of them actually encourage you to buy the game if you like it.
I've been completely burned by games I've bought new. For instance, star wars rebel assault for gamecube, which just SUCKED. And then I bought the sims box set at w-mart once, having ALREADY paid for the original, only to find out that the expansion installs were so borked that the thing didn't work AT ALL.
Note: I've been channeling LOTS of money toward game makers for over two decades.
It wouldn't be there if it wasn't economically beneficial to include.
That's an interesting perspective, but I think this is more like planting an audio bug in someone's house and keeping a recording of the audio because it provides a data record that would be impossible for a human to do. Ostensibly, this analogy fails at the part where your car is always in public space (for the sake of argument, I acknowledge the existence of exceptions).
But since they specifically access your vehicle for the sake of getting this information, I think that violates the boundaries of your personal space. I mean, they can't search the inside of your car without a warrant or probable cause.
This is very different from say, having all the camera-eyes log your license place upon detection, which does not place itself within the domain of your vehicle.
Yeah, you failed question #3. It is the father's chromosome that determines the sex of the offspring. You see, genes are to chromosomes like electrons are to atoms in the sense that they are but a subset of the whole.
I want to propose a referendum. "We are allowed to kill on sight anyone who fails a single question on this quiz who is over the age of 10."
I'm checking out at the store, and put my reusable bag in front of my items or say, "hi I brought a bag with me today"
Often, the cashier will fail to break out of repetitive-task-robot mode and automatically start loading the plastic bag.
Other times, they'll put things in the bag so stupidly that they'll then proceed to load up items in a plastic bag that would have fit just fine in the cloth bag.
Or they'll put bagged items in a bag. I've had the following things put into a bag by themselves: - a bag of rice - a loaf of bread, already in its own bag - a plastic gallon jug, which is already easier to carry by its own handle. - a pizza in a cardboard box, which is much less wieldy in a plastic bag than on its own.
And then there's the countless times I request NO bag, at which point they look at me all puzzled, almost offended.
If IBM could address all the problems I've just described, then maybe that would actually be patent-worthy.
I forget the term for it, but there is a variation of TBS where you have a certain amount of time to take your turn, and you are rewarded for making your choices more quickly (like rolling higher initiative or something).
Okay, that makes sense - but why can't the player just interpolate these things internally on the client side? Like I mentioned, it seems like every other flash video player out there (break, hulu, revver) handles this just fine.
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I'm careful about saying "never", so allow for argument's sake times when you'd want to talk to police:
- To report a crime, or file a report. This can be your only saving grace when taking someone else to court.
- In the event of emergency. Asking an officer's help during an injury or other occurrence. Maybe you are in need of an emergency escort to the hospital.
Maybe I could come up with more, but you get the point.
But yeah, otherwise never talk to police. I should know well enough from personal experience. They play their games, offer threats, lie to you, get pouty... But the experience of dealing with an unhappy police officer beats going to jail any day. (Well any day unless they decide to kill you)
Also, if they are keeping your company, ask specifically if you are being detained, not arrested as you say. If they say 'no', you can say goodbye at that point. If you are under arrest, they're pretty good about telling you that (usually right before handcuffs are applied).
I actually agree with you on the existence of legitimate purposes for secrecy, and that the situation for this article may well be such a legitimate need.
The problem is that a great deal of illegitimate secrecy occurs and this very abuse of government is a threat to national security in itself. It allows for systematic abuses (I like the example of Abu Grahib torture) when that blanket of secrecy becomes so large that many government entities can sweep their abuses under it. Dick Cheney even made his own original rubber stamp (literally!) to designate secrecy indiscriminately.
My issue is that in the broader picture of security and well being for a nation, and for the nations with whom we are all globally connected, there are much more direct ways to improve the state of the world than through military action, public dialogue of threat, and secrecy in abducting and torturing individuals in the manner that the united states government has conducted itself post-9/11.
I think that the strength of the united states would be shown in providing food, healthcare, childcare, education, and housing more effectively to its constituents rather than showing its weakness by investing so heavily in military action that necessitates its own growth.
I love history and there are MANY fascinating examples of dramatic power shift of the leakage of sensitive information. Would I want to put my country at a disadvantage just in the name of indiscriminately freeing information? NO! But at the same time, I don't kid myself for a minute that any such disadvantage could compare to that wrought upon a people by its own government.
"Why?" Is a very good question. I strongly believe in government transparency. The security of a nation's people, what I consider a "nation", relies on being able to hold accountable the authority of said nation that monopolizes violent force to govern itself. When the police, military, and high levels of government operate in secrecy, history has shown such an environment is a perfect breeding ground for abuse. To an extreme, it is totalitarianism. Police already see everyone as a potential criminal, and to seek change there is an effort lost at its conception.
It could be argued that the Abu Graib torture photos compromised national security, and indeed people who did not deserve death were caught up in the violence that followed.
In order to be convicted of treason, one must be arrested and then successfully prosecuted. I do not suggest action that would result in those two happening.
As far as treason and national security go, I find it downright obvious that the terrorists in the white house are more responsible for death, terror, and overall reversal in human greatness than anything the alqueda-style terrorists could hope to achieve. That is, unless you wish to credit al-queda with enabling their actions.
Okay, admittedly, giving the data to wikileaks would be something that I would do given the situation, which is certainly not for everyone.
I can't say what wikileaks would do to anonymize the data, but it's not that hard to cleanse exif data yourself.
The intent is not to taunt the organizations responsible, but to punish them for their carelessness. Lessons learned the hard way tend to stick.
Who said anything about taunting a TLA? I don't even know what that is. I don't taunt any police organization besides purposefully seeking justice in a court of law or asserting my rights during an encounter.
I think the individual would have been better off (as in, not having his home raided and property taken) to have just given the data to wikileaks.
In response to MI6's ineptitude, the authorities have attacked the innocent person attempting to help them.
Remember kids, talking to police is not usually in your best interest. Be polite and complicit within your rights, but don't volunteer information.
If I have to read more then 2-3 strips back to figure out wtf is going on then the author really chose the wrong medium.
Yeah, why can't all comics be as good as beetle bailey?
I've been reading achewood regularly for a few years now, and I think the radio interview did well in pointing out that the comic is about the characters and dialogue more than complex artwork or the "heh" factor. C.and.H compares better to Sinfest, and those are very different types of comic. For achewood, the dialogue is the real nut meat and it really needs that many panels to fill its proper space. As chris says in the interview, it's the "sunday comics format".
During the interview (did you listen?), Chris talked about how the story arc for the book he's discussing went on for about three months. Sometimes readers lose interest in those periods, and so be it.
One could say Picasso is a bad artist compared to Rembrandt because his portraits aren't as realistic.
There's a link at the site directing npr listeners to reader favorites. This one is recent and stands well on its own. Philippe is such a heartwarming character:
http://achewood.com/index.php?date=08222007
the global warming effects associated with an increase of dioxide levels by
Since when has global warming been associated with breathable oxygen?
Sounds like you already have what you're asking for. I run a full linux web dev environment in vmware on windows. It's very convenient, having its own IP address and saving me the hassle of running a separate machine. I have my web folders accessible through samba and can experiment freely without worrying about botching anything up.
Am I missing something about the question?
My vote for worst goes to mi3 - the first one made after ron gilbert was no longer involved. I was completely thrilled to play mi2, and even got a teaser postcard mailed to me from lucasarts! The artwork was magnificent!
My introduction to R.Gilbert's work was monkey island 1 (ega 16-color version) when I was 8 I think. The box art drew me in, and the details upon the back sold me. Ron, if you read this - Thanks so much for the lifelong influence and I'm glad to see you making new games!
ha! after 12 months, I actually paid for glider and got banned three weeks later. It wasn't worth it for me to play without that and now I don't have to worry about wow at all. That game is too repetitive in so many ways and it's so slow running around everywhere that I think it actually discourages exploration. Plus it's a lot of work to manage all that inventory and auctioning.
My windows desktop background is set to black already. It's the best thing to look at when I don't want the second monitor to distract me.
Oh, so it takes less time than actually playing WoW.
Maybe this time at least you'll be able to pick up a roll of duct tape (by running your character over it, natch) so that you can use your gun AND the flashlight.
WRONG! - it has to do with how the performances are judged and that younger gymnasts possess an advantage somehow that I don't have links to refresh my knowledge. I heard a detailed story about this on NPR a few weeks ago.
I'd be happy to have you substantiate your claim with some kind of linkage.
I'm surprised that photovoltaic is more cost effective than solar thermal. Using fresnel lenses that focus on heat exchangers that double as turbines, it can be cheaper than coal. See here:
http://www.celsias.com/article/utahs-solar-fired-furnace-power-california-less-co/
You know, most of the pirated game releases I've come across aren't nefarious products of people with "at best questionable morality". They're heavily community-oriented, giving shouts out to people and crews and recruiting qualified crackers. And get this: a lot of them actually encourage you to buy the game if you like it.
I've been completely burned by games I've bought new. For instance, star wars rebel assault for gamecube, which just SUCKED. And then I bought the sims box set at w-mart once, having ALREADY paid for the original, only to find out that the expansion installs were so borked that the thing didn't work AT ALL.
Note: I've been channeling LOTS of money toward game makers for over two decades.
It wouldn't be there if it wasn't economically beneficial to include.
Because... you say so?
That's an interesting perspective, but I think this is more like planting an audio bug in someone's house and keeping a recording of the audio because it provides a data record that would be impossible for a human to do. Ostensibly, this analogy fails at the part where your car is always in public space (for the sake of argument, I acknowledge the existence of exceptions).
But since they specifically access your vehicle for the sake of getting this information, I think that violates the boundaries of your personal space. I mean, they can't search the inside of your car without a warrant or probable cause.
This is very different from say, having all the camera-eyes log your license place upon detection, which does not place itself within the domain of your vehicle.
Yeah, you failed question #3. It is the father's chromosome that determines the sex of the offspring. You see, genes are to chromosomes like electrons are to atoms in the sense that they are but a subset of the whole.
I want to propose a referendum. "We are allowed to kill on sight anyone who fails a single question on this quiz who is over the age of 10."
Are you over the age of 10?
"[data was not encrypted] However, it was protected by two levels of passwords."
Baby, I'm sorry I cheated on you. But I was thinking of you while we did it.
Here's a scenario I often run into:
I'm checking out at the store, and put my reusable bag in front of my items or say, "hi I brought a bag with me today"
Often, the cashier will fail to break out of repetitive-task-robot mode and automatically start loading the plastic bag.
Other times, they'll put things in the bag so stupidly that they'll then proceed to load up items in a plastic bag that would have fit just fine in the cloth bag.
Or they'll put bagged items in a bag. I've had the following things put into a bag by themselves:
- a bag of rice
- a loaf of bread, already in its own bag
- a plastic gallon jug, which is already easier to carry by its own handle.
- a pizza in a cardboard box, which is much less wieldy in a plastic bag than on its own.
And then there's the countless times I request NO bag, at which point they look at me all puzzled, almost offended.
If IBM could address all the problems I've just described, then maybe that would actually be patent-worthy.
I forget the term for it, but there is a variation of TBS where you have a certain amount of time to take your turn, and you are rewarded for making your choices more quickly (like rolling higher initiative or something).
Check out Bang Howdy for an example of this
ha! anyone remember the f00f bug?
I learned how to embed machine code into C and ran amok halting university systems with that for a little while.
Or about that floating point bug?
Okay, that makes sense - but why can't the player just interpolate these things internally on the client side? Like I mentioned, it seems like every other flash video player out there (break, hulu, revver) handles this just fine.