I was looking at the Lego display at Target and noticed that every set had a weapon. Back when I played with Legos in the 70's, I had the contrasting experience of noting that none had a weapon. There was not even one set with a configuration related to combat. I found it strange and the answer I got was that the founder of Legos, Ole Kirk Christiansen, was a pacifist who had been so put off by WWII that he swore to only make toys with educational and non-violent themes.
The first move away from this policy I remember is the castle line in the 80's. Since then it has changed rapidly, and now it's fighting robots, space fighters, alien warfare, etc. I'm rather disappointed, if not surprised.
and suggest that people not only lobby for the right but claim the right, by recording first and asking questions later. While this won't always have the intended results, many cases will contain evidence so compelling that the illegality of the recording becomes irrelevant. Making exceptions for those cases will establish a precedent for the individual's right to record.
Nice post. And while I'd like to see this thread continue here, I'd like even more to see it continued in Congress. The legislation and regulation is way behind the technology. At least our legislators got it together enough to debate and pass AHRA in 1992. But that was 15 years ago, and wasn't even clear about the technology then. So now we have this lawless wild west copyright situation out in the technology frontier where everyone doesn't know if they're a lawbreaker, and private parties are hiring lawthugs to enforce their own brand of justice.
A PET scan doesn't take structural images like a CT scan. Its strength is that it takes chemical images. You can inject a proteins containing a radioactive component (for the PET image) designed to bind to a particular set of receptors, and get an image of the location, size and behavior of the targeted cells. This CT scan will get you a great image of the heart, but the high-res scan won't show that that heart is not responding to a hormone. A PET scan remains a damaging procedure, but also remains a uniquely useful one.
I remember all of these wi-fi competitions where teams are able to transmit an unboosted signal hundreds of miles, when I have a hard time getting a signal to my backyard. So perhaps the right antennae could work wonders. Of course it's quite possible the manufacturers of this device are already doing something like that. If the beam weren't focussed the cops would be shutting their own cars down first.
I adblock ad sites that are persistently slow or serve up exceptionally annoying ads like pop-unders, strobe-flash, and monkey-punchers. It's not so much a theft thing as a Darwinian thing, I block the ad because it's obstructing content, and I had to sit there for 10seconds too long with nothing better to do than add it to adblock. If I couldn't block those ads, I would likely avoid the sites that host them altogether. Presumably the site would prefer I block their most annoying ads over losing my participation. They still get to include me when they report the number of visitors to the advertisers.
Twice I've come close to being hit by a police car running a red light without sirens, once on foot and once while driving. I didn't look and say "oh, police, maybe they're going to run the light." I doubt they did it on purpose, just thought it was clear so they went. It was late at night, in a residential district. I'm sure they didn't want to make a nuisance at that late hour, but they didn't seem to be in any hurry either. They ran the light as a course of habit. The law is there for a reason, which is to promote safety. The sirens are there to safely make an exception to traffic law. Emergency vehicle drivers in the habit of running red lights will fail to notice pedestrians and drivers. If penalties and fines are what it takes to get everyone else to obey the law, that's what it will take to make our emergency vehicle drivers obey the law, and more importantly, that's what it will take to make them safe.
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I was looking at the Lego display at Target and noticed that every set had a weapon. Back when I played with Legos in the 70's, I had the contrasting experience of noting that none had a weapon. There was not even one set with a configuration related to combat. I found it strange and the answer I got was that the founder of Legos, Ole Kirk Christiansen, was a pacifist who had been so put off by WWII that he swore to only make toys with educational and non-violent themes.
The first move away from this policy I remember is the castle line in the 80's. Since then it has changed rapidly, and now it's fighting robots, space fighters, alien warfare, etc. I'm rather disappointed, if not surprised.
and suggest that people not only lobby for the right but claim the right, by recording first and asking questions later. While this won't always have the intended results, many cases will contain evidence so compelling that the illegality of the recording becomes irrelevant. Making exceptions for those cases will establish a precedent for the individual's right to record.
Nice post. And while I'd like to see this thread continue here, I'd like even more to see it continued in Congress. The legislation and regulation is way behind the technology. At least our legislators got it together enough to debate and pass AHRA in 1992. But that was 15 years ago, and wasn't even clear about the technology then. So now we have this lawless wild west copyright situation out in the technology frontier where everyone doesn't know if they're a lawbreaker, and private parties are hiring lawthugs to enforce their own brand of justice.
A PET scan doesn't take structural images like a CT scan. Its strength is that it takes chemical images. You can inject a proteins containing a radioactive component (for the PET image) designed to bind to a particular set of receptors, and get an image of the location, size and behavior of the targeted cells. This CT scan will get you a great image of the heart, but the high-res scan won't show that that heart is not responding to a hormone. A PET scan remains a damaging procedure, but also remains a uniquely useful one.
I remember all of these wi-fi competitions where teams are able to transmit an unboosted signal hundreds of miles, when I have a hard time getting a signal to my backyard. So perhaps the right antennae could work wonders. Of course it's quite possible the manufacturers of this device are already doing something like that. If the beam weren't focussed the cops would be shutting their own cars down first.
I adblock ad sites that are persistently slow or serve up exceptionally annoying ads like pop-unders, strobe-flash, and monkey-punchers. It's not so much a theft thing as a Darwinian thing, I block the ad because it's obstructing content, and I had to sit there for 10seconds too long with nothing better to do than add it to adblock. If I couldn't block those ads, I would likely avoid the sites that host them altogether. Presumably the site would prefer I block their most annoying ads over losing my participation. They still get to include me when they report the number of visitors to the advertisers.
Twice I've come close to being hit by a police car running a red light without sirens, once on foot and once while driving. I didn't look and say "oh, police, maybe they're going to run the light." I doubt they did it on purpose, just thought it was clear so they went. It was late at night, in a residential district. I'm sure they didn't want to make a nuisance at that late hour, but they didn't seem to be in any hurry either. They ran the light as a course of habit. The law is there for a reason, which is to promote safety. The sirens are there to safely make an exception to traffic law. Emergency vehicle drivers in the habit of running red lights will fail to notice pedestrians and drivers. If penalties and fines are what it takes to get everyone else to obey the law, that's what it will take to make our emergency vehicle drivers obey the law, and more importantly, that's what it will take to make them safe.