I have been reading recently that the latest 3d cards are so fast that the pentium II cpus can't feed 'em data (triangles?) fast enough.
Since 1GHz is in the microwave domain, I can imagine microstrips and waveguides feeding the video card. Imagine the framerate of Quake several orders of magnitude higher. Can your brain keep up?
Seems like 1GHz leaves many more opportunities for the way electrical propogate. Rather than using a wired bus, it could be possible to beam out the processed information directly from the silicon into our world. My computer makes FM radio and TV useless, why not just take advantage of the emissions and make them useful? Telepathy, anyone?
Make sure the Pentium® III computer you own has a BIOS that allows you to turn off the serial number. There is currently no known way to read the serial number if you have disabled it in the BIOS.
Oh? I can see some bios flashing virus leave that claim to shame. Beware of sploits.
All new heart-lung and drug dosing machines will be both Y2K and W2K compliant.
You need to be running an approved operating system in order for your new internet2 connection to work.
Oh, the blue screen of death? Don't worry about that, unless you are running unapproved third party applications on your computer. Or, perhaps the current service pack is expired and you need to purchace and start the installation of a thousand reboots. Always be sure to run the latest antivirus program for your health and safety.
There is a small deer problem in Texas. I visit my sister in Austin twice a year and have seen many blood stained roads. They are brown with big red splotches everywhere. Either the deer is constantly picked up and those deer crossing signs really mean something, or they play some serious paintball down in Texas.
There was a hunting problem too in nearby Round Rock where they were considering banning shooting within so many feet of a house. Too many people hunt, because there were too many deer.
This may explain why many people in Texas drive big trucks: so they don't end up with a deer in their lap on the drive home from work. Front bumpers on trucks are cheap to replace too. Compare it to hitting a deer with your car.
Short? I was among the shortest in elementary school. With red hair. Then I quickly grew. Then I had the honor of being the skinniest. When it came to bullies, I had to take my licks and enjoy it.
Oh, when I was in about 3rd grade, I thought 6 years of elementary school, then a year of jr high and a year of high school, then it was over. Well, someone broke the news to me and told me they were 3 years a school. Imagine a 3rd grader being told there were 9 more years of hell. It was eternal. I was terminal.
I developed a skill at drawing cartoons as an escape. Satires. For some reason, the teachers did not become offended when they were the subject. I guess hell was not too bad. It could have been worse. I could have been silenced for my sins.
Anything you say, will and can be mis-represented.
I am a senior technician where I work. It is important that I comunicate what happens in hopes to make our jobs easier. I do the night shift and a few years back started the tradition of compiling an email of the night's electrical breakdowns of machines in the plant. No matter how concise or descriptive I am of the incident and repair, how people interpret the report gets back to me. People seem to have it in their nature to place the blame on other people, not even when it is a machine that fails. For this reason, I hate describing technical failures as the email might make it to the COO, from and then back down the ranks again. The email may also might be further distorted through opinions in the course of daily meetings.
Media distortion. There is a game called gossip. A dozen friends gather in a circle and the object is to attempt by word of mouth as a secret, from one to another, pass a some kind of information. In the end, it is a real twisted riot.
That is why I hate the media and place real value in the internet when it comes to news. I take newspapers and CNN at entertainment value, if its worth anything at that.
A few of my friends were invoved in the SCCA and would enjoy taking cars for local competition. My parents did not approve of expensive hobbies like that, so I had to sneak out and go cruising. We did it on Noland Road in Independence, MO. It was about a mile and a half long where both lanes on each side of the city street would be bumper to bumper with high schoolers from over 50 miles away would come to drink and be merry. It was perhaps like Mardi Gras, but every night, especially the weekends. Drink up. Get flashed. People would meet and go to parties at houses or the vast nearby parks.
For those who were not attractive enough to score, boredom could be releived by cruising through the cops of Raytown on to Blue Ridge where there was some serious racing. There was some serious hot rods and I even saw a motorcycle with a straight six and nitrous. It was a place to hang with the older folks that had the classic and custom cars.
If you had a car, you had a means to do something. Sometimes that something was trouble, but it was better than nothing. It was a bad influence on me. I started deliverisg pizzas for Pizza Hut. I blew up my engine one day and soon dropped a 350 in it. It got worse with nitrous. Open headers. Nine engine rebuilds later, I was a declared a menace. For some reason, I never got arrested. I guess everyone my age was doing it. My parents got fed up and it was college or the street I went.
Looking back, most got to start families early and now have a rough life in debt caring for many kids and divorces. Cars were the ruin of many good promising lives.
I had some bad days. Thinking about it, there were quite a few bad days. Maybe every day had some difficulties. Somehow, my memory just forgets about most of the bad times.
Perhaps I was lucky. I remember a bad day I had where a gang of people behind me in class started talking about me and one simply said, "I'm going to slit his throat." That was too much for me. I complained and luckly the office had an officer called him in with me to check it out. Of course, the guy played stupid. The officer, shortly joined by two others stated it was ok if he was denying it, but stated what would happen to him if there was any more trouble out of him. That was luck. Usually, the teachers ignore or even laugh at how people do not get along.
Funny how I remembered high school to be so good until I remember things like this. Man, it was hell. Every day, lockers were getting caved in from someone's skull. I would daily see the fist of some well endowed guy firmly planted in another's stomach. If I had to do it all over again? Now that I think about it, no thanks.
College was much better. There were fewer sociopaths.
Damn, that may have been the best rant I have ever read! My favorite quote, "It builds character," could apply to this. I hope things work out. Hang in there and it will.
I was perhaps the skinniest kid in junior high, but also had red hair. Talk about getting attention. Physical education was mandatory and one of the activities was football. I can tell you about getting flattened into the ground by some big dudes. My interest in electronics and comptuters got noticed and was able to help others. People knew I was worth something and I was looked at more than some weakling.
What saved me was getting any jobs I could and getting money for activities and later a car. Money makes it possible to do fun things and people like to join fun activities. When I turned 16, I did my time at Burger King making $100 to $200 a week part time at minimum wage. Had a nice car too. The jocks knew I was working hard and came to respect me. One insisted that I date his sister (unfortunately, I refused as I was dating another at the time.)
The best way to enjoy school is to be a fun person. The person who has the most fun, wins. It helps to have money and squander some of that precious time after school. After all, there is a lot of stress and there needs to be places to go and people to see. We didn't have the internet back then, we had the telephone, CB, cars, public parks, cruising strips, parties, etc. Nowadays, its too easy to find someone to talk to. Back then, we had to really get inventive to meet people.
The reason why I stopped subscribing to cable TV was that for $65 a month, all I was getting was 100 channels of infomercials, commercials, and reruns from hell. The signal to noise ratio was low in terms of picture quality, too. Seems like marketing has the sole purpose to extract money and time at the expense of everyone's sanity. Now they want to invade software. No thanks.
I find it surprising that they justify this menace by supporting all those development costs. Seems to me free software has higher quality and is done by people as a hobby who have other jobs. Why should I use junk software, junk email, junk messages, all to support the company's owners and stock?
I decided to think up a response that was equally as intelligent as your article: Fuck you.
Yuck. Bad word. That is what a parent would tell a child. Fuck is not a good word and procreation is not a good idea in this case. Windows programmers should not have the ability to spawn and father children.
Improving vacuum tubes? I prefer to call these devices as valves, or electron valves, but never the equivalent of Windows Technology. You might have one of these gems in your house if you have a microwave. Powerful TWT tubes can be used for radar jamming in "peace keeping missions." Many hams and audiophiles prefer these square law devices to power radio transmitters and receivers. They are state of the art in electron control. Linux is the art of software and logic control. Please do not compare valves to Windows!
I can "detatch" the LCD from my notebook with a few screws. It would be nice to have a smaller HUD viewer. Imagine the weight and massive power savings of such a small device. The image could be brighter and seen in full sunlight too...:)
If you can make an NT box stay up for a month doing anything usefull, you must know something Microsoft does not know when they pressed the NT disks and all them service packs. I see NT crash every night on dozens of computers. Not only that, they are all scheduled for a 23:00 reboot each night. New Technology? Not There. Don't be a fool.
Bootleg movies, campus based sites, warez and the like are nothing new at all...
Bootleg movies? Warez?
Back in the 70's, my hometown library had a large selection of super-8 movies and many racks of cassettes and albums we could check out. We would all get together in somebody's basement and have little block parties. Those were the days.
Television used to have good entertainment, too. Last year, I was paying $65 a month for some cable access. After a few months, I wised up to the fact I would be seeing repeats all year. Cable is the seat of greed.
Now it seems like the RIAA is trying to outlaw MP3's. The technology I looked forward to has been all but ruined due to coorporate greed and misinformation campaigns such as this: "Anyone with a computer is now a video pirate." What kind of shit is this? They are the greed that sets new technology back in the dark ages. Secure MP3? What kind of use is that for me? I cannot work with that. New technology now is a buzzword and filled with hype and misinformation due to firms like the RIAA. I wish they would go to hell. They can do without this government protection of IP that they enjoy. Programming content would be so much better if the masses are allowed to make media for free distribution.
Control the media, controll the world. Imagine a world where we do not have access to video compression and encryption to allow common people to freely distribute local news and entertainment. You have China and Russia where it is outlawed.
What kind of encoding hardware are they using? Surely, you cannot encode a full speed movie through software. Must be some big bucks to get an array of DSP's to get all the frames down to a decent size. Where do you get this stuff and how much?
I shot 10 seconds through my video card at 30fps and the file was a whopping 46MB! Faster than the damn hard drive and put a load on the bus getting there. What can make an entire movie 400MB in real time?
Guns we can do without. These other things we cannot without losing a lot. So get rid of guns..
You can get rid of your guns, as you might not need or use them. I prefer to eat meat that has not been raised on a slaughterfarm pumped up with antibiotics and steriods from an animal that lives a life of abuse. For me, a gun provides a healthy, lean dinner on the table. Now, for a city slicker that never gets out deep in the woods, a tool that sends a high speed projectile a mile and a half might not be a good idea.
Let me remind you that a loaded firearm in a moving vehicle, less than 20 feet from a road, or discharging in city limits is illegal. Shoot a turkey out of season here and not only loose your car, gun, and anything else involved in the above acts, but pay a fine of $10,000 and $100 per pound on top of that. Gun laws are strict and are enforced. If you have a complaint, make it formal. If your ciy does not care, I suggest you move, because there goes the neighborhood!
Yes, its true. A few years ago, I bought a top of the line Gateway 2000 Solo notebook. The sound did not work and XFree was not pretty at 480x600. That was my first experience with Linux. Redhat 4.1. One month later 4.2 came out. Stereo sound then worked along with accelerated full screen video. It was amazing with the one liner commands I could do with the hardware. I could pipe this to that and it never crashed since. It was quickly turning into the computer I always wanted!
...and I'm scared that other people around me could legally own guns that they might use on me or...
I own an rifle. Somehow, the USA defines my SKS as an assult rifle. I bring back healthy, lean deer meat on the dinner table with it. Does that scare you?
In this city and any that I know of, discharging a firearm is illegal. There are places to go hunt and play with guns, but one of them is not in populated areas. I hunt in the country, deep in the woods where the game can be found. Not in your neighborhood!
Every american should carry a firearm? Yuck! I have a SKS rifle and a 80lb bow for hunting. This allows me to bring back some non-steriod-slaugherfarm-abused-for-life-game home for dinner and eat healthy, but I would not recommend people in a big crowded city who do not get out to have firearms. Some people just do not need a high powered tool that will send a high speed projectile a mile and a half. Its silly.
The problem with our society is that we do not have a welcome job market for new teenagers anymore. Its now competitive and not very nurturing like it used to be. A newbie is likely to get ridiculed. We need more time with families and community activities to solve this, not playing the blame game of TV and video games.
NT is stable where I work as long as it is booted nightly. They all reboot automatically at 23:00. Regardless, sometimes icons and entire programs disapear at random requiring a reinstall. Go figure.
I have yet to make Linux fail through non superuser or physical access. Not to mention I much prefer the Linux environment and X.
I agree. I think the real problem is that employment for teenagers is not good these days. There is not much for someone who wishes to do something in the real world. When I was a teenager, it was easy to find a part time job and really do something different.
So what does a person do who does not feel welcomed into the job market and has no purpose? To be ridiculed by a capitalistic society? An ugly attitude forms. It can be hidden due to the shame of rebelling. One day, the kid cracks and goes postal.
The media has never addressed this issue. How odd.
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I have been reading recently that the latest 3d cards are so fast that the pentium II cpus can't feed 'em data (triangles?) fast enough.
Since 1GHz is in the microwave domain, I can imagine microstrips and waveguides feeding the video card. Imagine the framerate of Quake several orders of magnitude higher. Can your brain keep up?
Seems like 1GHz leaves many more opportunities for the way electrical propogate. Rather than using a wired bus, it could be possible to beam out the processed information directly from the silicon into our world. My computer makes FM radio and TV useless, why not just take advantage of the emissions and make them useful? Telepathy, anyone?
Make sure the Pentium® III computer you own has a BIOS that allows you to turn off the serial number. There is currently no known way to read the serial number if you have disabled it in the BIOS.
Oh? I can see some bios flashing virus leave that claim to shame. Beware of sploits.
This is rich:
Software virus not needed, Hardware virus built in!
What next?
All new heart-lung and drug dosing machines will be both Y2K and W2K compliant.
You need to be running an approved operating system in order for your new internet2 connection to work.
Oh, the blue screen of death? Don't worry about that, unless you are running unapproved third party applications on your computer. Or, perhaps the current service pack is expired and you need to purchace and start the installation of a thousand reboots. Always be sure to run the latest antivirus program for your health and safety.
There is a small deer problem in Texas. I visit my sister in Austin twice a year and have seen many blood stained roads. They are brown with big red splotches everywhere. Either the deer is constantly picked up and those deer crossing signs really mean something, or they play some serious paintball down in Texas.
There was a hunting problem too in nearby Round Rock where they were considering banning shooting within so many feet of a house. Too many people hunt, because there were too many deer.
This may explain why many people in Texas drive big trucks: so they don't end up with a deer in their lap on the drive home from work. Front bumpers on trucks are cheap to replace too. Compare it to hitting a deer with your car.
Short? I was among the shortest in elementary school. With red hair. Then I quickly grew. Then I had the honor of being the skinniest. When it came to bullies, I had to take my licks and enjoy it.
Oh, when I was in about 3rd grade, I thought 6 years of elementary school, then a year of jr high and a year of high school, then it was over. Well, someone broke the news to me and told me they were 3 years a school. Imagine a 3rd grader being told there were 9 more years of hell. It was eternal. I was terminal.
I developed a skill at drawing cartoons as an escape. Satires. For some reason, the teachers did not become offended when they were the subject. I guess hell was not too bad. It could have been worse. I could have been silenced for my sins.
Anything you say, will and can be mis-represented.
I am a senior technician where I work. It is important that I comunicate what happens in hopes to make our jobs easier. I do the night shift and a few years back started the tradition of compiling an email of the night's electrical breakdowns of machines in the plant. No matter how concise or descriptive I am of the incident and repair, how people interpret the report gets back to me. People seem to have it in their nature to place the blame on other people, not even when it is a machine that fails. For this reason, I hate describing technical failures as the email might make it to the COO, from and then back down the ranks again. The email may also might be further distorted through opinions in the course of daily meetings.
Media distortion. There is a game called gossip. A dozen friends gather in a circle and the object is to attempt by word of mouth as a secret, from one to another, pass a some kind of information. In the end, it is a real twisted riot.
That is why I hate the media and place real value in the internet when it comes to news. I take newspapers and CNN at entertainment value, if its worth anything at that.
A few of my friends were invoved in the SCCA and would enjoy taking cars for local competition. My parents did not approve of expensive hobbies like that, so I had to sneak out and go cruising. We did it on Noland Road in Independence, MO. It was about a mile and a half long where both lanes on each side of the city street would be bumper to bumper with high schoolers from over 50 miles away would come to drink and be merry. It was perhaps like Mardi Gras, but every night, especially the weekends. Drink up. Get flashed. People would meet and go to parties at houses or the vast nearby parks.
For those who were not attractive enough to score, boredom could be releived by cruising through the cops of Raytown on to Blue Ridge where there was some serious racing. There was some serious hot rods and I even saw a motorcycle with a straight six and nitrous. It was a place to hang with the older folks that had the classic and custom cars.
If you had a car, you had a means to do something. Sometimes that something was trouble, but it was better than nothing. It was a bad influence on me. I started deliverisg pizzas for Pizza Hut. I blew up my engine one day and soon dropped a 350 in it. It got worse with nitrous. Open headers. Nine engine rebuilds later, I was a declared a menace. For some reason, I never got arrested. I guess everyone my age was doing it. My parents got fed up and it was college or the street I went.
Looking back, most got to start families early and now have a rough life in debt caring for many kids and divorces. Cars were the ruin of many good promising lives.
I had some bad days. Thinking about it, there were quite a few bad days. Maybe every day had some difficulties. Somehow, my memory just forgets about most of the bad times.
Perhaps I was lucky. I remember a bad day I had where a gang of people behind me in class started talking about me and one simply said, "I'm going to slit his throat." That was too much for me. I complained and luckly the office had an officer called him in with me to check it out. Of course, the guy played stupid. The officer, shortly joined by two others stated it was ok if he was denying it, but stated what would happen to him if there was any more trouble out of him. That was luck. Usually, the teachers ignore or even laugh at how people do not get along.
Funny how I remembered high school to be so good until I remember things like this. Man, it was hell. Every day, lockers were getting caved in from someone's skull. I would daily see the fist of some well endowed guy firmly planted in another's stomach. If I had to do it all over again? Now that I think about it, no thanks.
College was much better. There were fewer sociopaths.
Damn, that may have been the best rant I have ever read! My favorite quote, "It builds character," could apply to this. I hope things work out. Hang in there and it will.
I was perhaps the skinniest kid in junior high, but also had red hair. Talk about getting attention. Physical education was mandatory and one of the activities was football. I can tell you about getting flattened into the ground by some big dudes. My interest in electronics and comptuters got noticed and was able to help others. People knew I was worth something and I was looked at more than some weakling.
What saved me was getting any jobs I could and getting money for activities and later a car. Money makes it possible to do fun things and people like to join fun activities. When I turned 16, I did my time at Burger King making $100 to $200 a week part time at minimum wage. Had a nice car too. The jocks knew I was working hard and came to respect me. One insisted that I date his sister (unfortunately, I refused as I was dating another at the time.)
The best way to enjoy school is to be a fun person. The person who has the most fun, wins. It helps to have money and squander some of that precious time after school. After all, there is a lot of stress and there needs to be places to go and people to see. We didn't have the internet back then, we had the telephone, CB, cars, public parks, cruising strips, parties, etc. Nowadays, its too easy to find someone to talk to. Back then, we had to really get inventive to meet people.
The reason why I stopped subscribing to cable TV was that for $65 a month, all I was getting was 100 channels of infomercials, commercials, and reruns from hell. The signal to noise ratio was low in terms of picture quality, too. Seems like marketing has the sole purpose to extract money and time at the expense of everyone's sanity. Now they want to invade software. No thanks.
I find it surprising that they justify this menace by supporting all those development costs. Seems to me free software has higher quality and is done by people as a hobby who have other jobs. Why should I use junk software, junk email, junk messages, all to support the company's owners and stock?
I decided to think up a response that was equally as intelligent as your article: Fuck you.
Yuck. Bad word. That is what a parent would tell a child. Fuck is not a good word and procreation is not a good idea in this case. Windows programmers should not have the ability to spawn and father children.
Improving vacuum tubes? I prefer to call these devices as valves, or electron valves, but never the equivalent of Windows Technology. You might have one of these gems in your house if you have a microwave. Powerful TWT tubes can be used for radar jamming in "peace keeping missions." Many hams and audiophiles prefer these square law devices to power radio transmitters and receivers. They are state of the art in electron control. Linux is the art of software and logic control. Please do not compare valves to Windows!
I can "detatch" the LCD from my notebook with a few screws. It would be nice to have a smaller HUD viewer. Imagine the weight and massive power savings of such a small device. The image could be brighter and seen in full sunlight too... :)
If you can make an NT box stay up for a month doing anything usefull, you must know something Microsoft does not know when they pressed the NT disks and all them service packs. I see NT crash every night on dozens of computers. Not only that, they are all scheduled for a 23:00 reboot each night. New Technology? Not There. Don't be a fool.
Bootleg movies, campus based sites, warez and the like are nothing new at all...
Bootleg movies? Warez?
Back in the 70's, my hometown library had a large selection of super-8 movies and many racks of cassettes and albums we could check out. We would all get together in somebody's basement and have little block parties. Those were the days.
Television used to have good entertainment, too. Last year, I was paying $65 a month for some cable access. After a few months, I wised up to the fact I would be seeing repeats all year. Cable is the seat of greed.
Now it seems like the RIAA is trying to outlaw MP3's. The technology I looked forward to has been all but ruined due to coorporate greed and misinformation campaigns such as this: "Anyone with a computer is now a video pirate." What kind of shit is this? They are the greed that sets new technology back in the dark ages. Secure MP3? What kind of use is that for me? I cannot work with that. New technology now is a buzzword and filled with hype and misinformation due to firms like the RIAA. I wish they would go to hell. They can do without this government protection of IP that they enjoy. Programming content would be so much better if the masses are allowed to make media for free distribution.
Control the media, controll the world. Imagine a world where we do not have access to video compression and encryption to allow common people to freely distribute local news and entertainment. You have China and Russia where it is outlawed.
Greed kills.
What kind of encoding hardware are they using? Surely, you cannot encode a full speed movie through software. Must be some big bucks to get an array of DSP's to get all the frames down to a decent size. Where do you get this stuff and how much?
I shot 10 seconds through my video card at 30fps and the file was a whopping 46MB! Faster than the damn hard drive and put a load on the bus getting there. What can make an entire movie 400MB in real time?
Guns we can do without. These other things we cannot without losing a lot. So get rid of guns..
You can get rid of your guns, as you might not need or use them. I prefer to eat meat that has not been raised on a slaughterfarm pumped up with antibiotics and steriods from an animal that lives a life of abuse. For me, a gun provides a healthy, lean dinner on the table. Now, for a city slicker that never gets out deep in the woods, a tool that sends a high speed projectile a mile and a half might not be a good idea.
Let me remind you that a loaded firearm in a moving vehicle, less than 20 feet from a road, or discharging in city limits is illegal. Shoot a turkey out of season here and not only loose your car, gun, and anything else involved in the above acts, but pay a fine of $10,000 and $100 per pound on top of that. Gun laws are strict and are enforced. If you have a complaint, make it formal. If your ciy does not care, I suggest you move, because there goes the neighborhood!
Why do kids kill? Why do dictators kill? Who kills the most? Do evil dictators play doom and surf internet porn?
Or is the media failing to research what they report?
Yes, its true. A few years ago, I bought a top of the line Gateway 2000 Solo notebook. The sound did not work and XFree was not pretty at 480x600. That was my first experience with Linux. Redhat 4.1. One month later 4.2 came out. Stereo sound then worked along with accelerated full screen video. It was amazing with the one liner commands I could do with the hardware. I could pipe this to that and it never crashed since. It was quickly turning into the computer I always wanted!
...and I'm scared that other people around me could legally own guns that they might use on me or...
I own an rifle. Somehow, the USA defines my SKS as an assult rifle. I bring back healthy, lean deer meat on the dinner table with it. Does that scare you?
In this city and any that I know of, discharging a firearm is illegal. There are places to go hunt and play with guns, but one of them is not in populated areas. I hunt in the country, deep in the woods where the game can be found. Not in your neighborhood!
Every american should carry a firearm? Yuck! I have a SKS rifle and a 80lb bow for hunting. This allows me to bring back some non-steriod-slaugherfarm-abused-for-life-game home for dinner and eat healthy, but I would not recommend people in a big crowded city who do not get out to have firearms. Some people just do not need a high powered tool that will send a high speed projectile a mile and a half. Its silly.
The problem with our society is that we do not have a welcome job market for new teenagers anymore. Its now competitive and not very nurturing like it used to be. A newbie is likely to get ridiculed. We need more time with families and community activities to solve this, not playing the blame game of TV and video games.
NT is stable where I work as long as it is booted nightly. They all reboot automatically at 23:00. Regardless, sometimes icons and entire programs disapear at random requiring a reinstall. Go figure.
I have yet to make Linux fail through non superuser or physical access. Not to mention I much prefer the Linux environment and X.
I agree. I think the real problem is that employment for teenagers is not good these days. There is not much for someone who wishes to do something in the real world. When I was a teenager, it was easy to find a part time job and really do something different.
So what does a person do who does not feel welcomed into the job market and has no purpose? To be ridiculed by a capitalistic society? An ugly attitude forms. It can be hidden due to the shame of rebelling. One day, the kid cracks and goes postal.
The media has never addressed this issue. How odd.